A beautiful op-ed in the new yorker about transactivists and trans exclusive radical feminists
written by transactivist Julia Serano.
it addresses some important issues including
1. including the mostly false dichotomy between feminists and transactivists
2. what is silencing vs protests
3. how reporters who are naive about the lives of lgbt people, further skew this narrative.
Give it a read, especially if you are one of those people who opine on radical feminists/transactivism on DU. I certainly found it fascinating
In our email exchanges, I mentioned to Goldberg that I had recently read what Sheila Jeffreys wrote about me in her book Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism and found it to be vile. Being that you don’t usually cover radical feminists in The New Yorker, you probably don’t know much about Jeffreys other than what Goldberg wrote about her (which frankly, made it sound like Jeffreys is the feminist version of Salman Rushdie circa 1990, being shuttled around from secret location to secret location). Well, I am very familiar with Jeffreys’s work, as we are diametrically opposed on many feminist issues. For instance, in her book Beauty and Misogyny, Jeffreys claims that women who are feminine are that way because they are suffering from a form of Stockholm syndrome, whereas I think feminists should take feminine gender expression seriously. We also differ greatly on our views about sexuality, transgender people, the direction that feminism should take, and other important issues. But you probably don’t care so much about those details. You’d probably rather focus on the “catfight” between radical feminists and transgender activists, wouldn’t you?
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