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Stargleamer

(2,110 posts)
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 09:48 PM Jul 2023

A Feminist Defense of Transgender Sex Equality Rights

Last edited Thu Jul 13, 2023, 06:17 PM - Edit history (1)

Not all radical feminists are TERFs. Indeed in this freely available pdf/article, https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/18252/88.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Catharine MacKinnon presents "A Feminist Defense of Transgender Sex Equality Rights".

Andrea Dworkin too before she died was supportive of trans people too.

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A Feminist Defense of Transgender Sex Equality Rights (Original Post) Stargleamer Jul 2023 OP
What is TERF ? Deuxcents Jul 2023 #1
Trans exclusionary radical feminist. Just another bullshit term... TreasonousBastard Jul 2023 #2
I disagree, it is a thing Lithos Jul 2023 #3
It is certainly a "thing" considering that human sexuality and... TreasonousBastard Jul 2023 #4
Then I am sorry for you... Lithos Jul 2023 #6
IMO it's those that term refers to that divide the movement Stargleamer Jul 2023 #5

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. Trans exclusionary radical feminist. Just another bullshit term...
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 10:42 PM
Jul 2023

to further divide a movement.

Don't take it any more seriously than you take the people who use it.

Lithos

(26,441 posts)
3. I disagree, it is a thing
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 11:02 PM
Jul 2023

There are a distinct group of Feminists who take a narrow and transphobic view of gender and what defines a woman. Not everyone accepts or understands Gender identification and Sexual orientation are two distinct dimensions with people falling in a spectrum in between.

I do agree some people may throw the term TERF around too quickly, but it is not an attempt to create an "us vs them" divide. It truly is people trying to be understood and feeling very frustrated and, in some cases, feeling sold out.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. It is certainly a "thing" considering that human sexuality and...
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 02:05 AM
Jul 2023

discussion surrounding it goes off toward infinity. However, here I suspect just the labeling of this tiny aspect of it begs for an argument. That puts it in the all-encompassing "bullshit" category, as far as I'm concerned.

Stargleamer

(2,110 posts)
5. IMO it's those that term refers to that divide the movement
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 05:42 PM
Jul 2023

by their hostility to Trans people and given that it’s often Trans people who use that term, I believe you should reconsider not taking them seriously and their critiques of Janice Raymond, Germaine Greer, etc., for their views on trans people

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