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Many of whom you slur as "transphobes" are feminists critical of this concept of gender identity and how it has been used to enable male access to female-only s
by sootfe 3y ago
Many of whom you slur as "transphobes" are feminists critical of this concept of gender identity and how it has been used to enable male access to female-only spaces.
This isn't at all related to the homophobic rhetoric of the 1990s, indeed many such feminists are homosexual themselves and who have found their single-sex social spaces effectively eradicated by believers in this ideology of gender identity.
In many ways this a continuation of the radical feminist movement of the 1970s onwards, where woman at the time were critical of the burgeoning transsexual movement, with those males demanding access to women's spaces.
- rsynnott 3y agoYes, yes, brand new account, tell us more of these feminists who split their time legislating against trans people and abortion. Obviously, some TERFs exist, but for the most part the modern (post-2010) transphobia movement is a conventional far-right movement and tends to be allied with the homophobes, the anti-abortion crowd, and so forth. There has, lately, been a certain level of discomfort amongst actual ye olde TERFs about the nature of their new allies, but when you make a deal with the devil, you have to expect a certain number of meme-obsessed Nazis to show up to your events.
- sootfe 3y agoThe whole reason that gender self-id laws were halted in the UK a few years back was because of a grassroots feminist movement resurging to oppose it. Mostly left-wing and socialist, and nothing to do with homophobia or anti-abortion at all. > you have to expect a certain number of meme-obsessed Nazis to show up to your events If this is some reference to the recent Let Women Speak event in Melbourne, the neo-Nazis absolutely did not show up to support the feminists. Quite the opposite, they were railing against the organiser for "promoting lesbianism". Not allies at all.