> Prof Arif Ahmed was forced to smuggle pupils into a talk by Helen Joyce, the gender-critical author and journalist, because of opposition from trans activists

> Prof Arif Ahmed was forced to smuggle pupils into a talk by Helen Joyce, the gender-critical author and journalist, because of opposition from trans activists. This professor wants to continue to engage in transphobic bigotry without anyone being permitted to complain. In the UK, this newspaper is commonly called "The Torygraph". For Americans, the "Tories" are the right wing political party whose official name is Conservative and Unionist Party. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torygraph https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torygraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) Gender-critical is the new word that Transphobes have picked for themselves. They originally used TERF but since that has very derogatory connotations, they now choose to use a new word for themselves. > TERFs very rarely use the term to describe themselves, and many of them claim that TERF is a misogynistic slur.[5] TERFs insist on being referred to by the euphemism "gender critical", and many may claim they aren't transphobic, but instead "trans critical".[6] This is not new behavior; white supremacists claim that anti-racist is a code word for anti-white and often insist on being called "race realists", and tankies will often try to rebrand Stalin apologetics as "anti-revisionism." > In the United States, feminists in sub-branches of feminist thought known to house individual TERFs, including second-wave feminists and political lesbians, have spoken out against this transphobia and transmisogyny within their ranks, further demonstrating the distance between TERFs and mainstream feminism.[7][8] This is less the case in countries like the UK, where TERFs are a part of mainstream feminism. > TERFs are a minority in American feminist discourse, concentrated primarily among older second-wave feminists who came of age amidst the women's liberation movement of the 1970s and '80s. In the US, the anti-transgender movement, like the anti-gay movement, is mostly driven by religious conservatives and often comes bundled with anti-feminism; younger third-wave feminists take a more intersectional approach that, among other things, embraces transgender rights and a looser conceptual understanding of gender. > It is a very different story, however, in the United Kingdom.[102] TERFs hold a mainstream position within the British feminist movement and serve as the main face of British anti-trans activism as opposed to religious conservatives, to the point that there has been friction between American and British feminists over the issue. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trans-exclusionary_radical_feminist https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trans-exclusionary_radical_fem...