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cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Radical Feminism wasn’t anti trans, it got co-opted by conservativesEnglish5·2 months agoI’m referring precisely to figures like Joyce and Rowling when I talk about the “terf-feminist divorce”. I agree that the modern “gender critical” individuals have little to do with feminists, and they themselves are moving away from the classic moniker too. But as a movement, I’m aiming for just the contrary, underlining the “feminist” in terf. remembering that terf stems from feminism points a finger at the failures of white, straight, upper-middle class feminism. I think it leads to much more useful discussion than trying to restrict a movement to its foundational authors and texts.
cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Radical Feminism wasn’t anti trans, it got co-opted by conservativesEnglish6·2 months agoWhen those ideas were injected into the movement so early in its history, was it coopted by bad actors or actively shaped by them?
It’s true that Dworkin wasn’t anti-trans, even if the transphobic ideas of her time seep into her work, as we see in the paternalistic attitude present in this passage. However, we have a few years, a decade at best, of radical feminism being trans-ambivalent before terfism became a prominent part of the movement. And that’s gone on for almost five decades. Even with the current terf-feminist divorce of the last decade, prominent contemporary authors that identify as radfem, such as Amelia Valcárcel, are quite transphobic.
Compare that to intersectional feminism. Even if Hooks’ foundational Feminist Theory contains questionable elements in her argumentation (like saying, or at least implying that gays and lesbians don’t suffer systemic oppression), she herself revised those ideas in later works and later trans feminist authors got grandmothered into the current.
cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Pastor & mother of trans son pens beautiful ode to visibility: “God made them trans on purpose”English3·2 months ago“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.” - Daniel Mallory Ortberg
cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto World News@lemmy.world•Paris unveils a memorial to LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi regime and other persecutionsEnglish1·2 months agoPlus, the 1948 definition of genocide only qualified racial, ethnic, national and religious groups as possible victims of genocide. LGBTQ people were defined out of the genocide they were suffering. Quite comfy for the Allies back then, and to Holocaust denialists and gender critical ideologists today.
cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Poll: Most Americans oppose trans women competing in female sports, including 2 of 3 in Gen ZEnglish2·2 months agoIt’s used as a spearhead issue to warm people up to the idea of excluding trans folk from public life. Here’s prominent transphobe activist Helen Joyce admitting it publicly:
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cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•It do be like thatEspañol131·3 months agoCompsci, the only degree where more women graduate than started it 3-4 years prior.
France and Spain at least have got some programs going. How effective they’ll be, time will tell. Regardless, I think Europe is going to receive a lot of young researchers from third countries that were planning on a PhD or postdoc in the us before this administration.