... on the place of transgender people in feminism, and they would be met with TERF backlash that in some ways resembles that which Wittig had faced at the hands of materialist feminists decades prior. Wittig's ambivalence to the category of woman—and materialist feminist resistance to it—would go...

...://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/terf-trans-women-britain.html . MacKinnon Catherine . 1989 . Toward a Feminist Theory of the State . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Meyerowitz Joanne . 2004 . How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States . Cambridge, MA...

... issue with trans people. Reviewed are historical instances in which radical feminists braved violence to ensure their feminism was trans inclusive. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 feminism radical feminism TERF In this article, I will review some of the ways in which...

...Sophie Lewis; Asa Seresin sophiele@sas.upenn.edu seresin@sas.upenn.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Repudiations of trans-exclusionary radical feminism often take the form of a call to strip from TERFs the name feminist . TERFism, it is often argued...

... party as innately harmful and therefore requiring elimination; hence the hallmark predation TERF abjection of trans women as rapists of cis women and the Zionist abjection of Palestinians as “savage” and/or “terrorist.” These connections can be obscured by the siloization of social justice movement work...

... that human beings embrace religions because they cannot think without direction. TERF voices echo this explanation as they seek to right what they determine are wrong figurations of gender. The freethinker's ritual presentation requires standing at a pulpit determined by their claimed associations...

.... Echoing a TERF trope, she writes, “Whatever we may think of non-binary gender identities, one thing is certain: there is no consensus about them in the progressive camp, let alone in society. And when progressives call the fact that humans exist—except few exceptions, the intersexuals—as male or female...

... that Stein does not understand trans men as “real” men. There are obviously very real differences between men and lesbian women. Stein mentions trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) once in the text, but she explains that their position results from a backlash against the gains of feminism; in her...

... 2020 ). 2 In this atmosphere—the pandemic, on the one hand, and the increase in the official writing of transphobia into state and public policy, on the other—we see a consolidation of trans*-exclusive feminist, or TERF, discourse expressing themselves through the tropology of viral and toxic...

... and a blog in Brazilian Portuguese. There were no trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) in the Brazilian context at that time—at least no feminists whose activism was specifically oriented toward harming trans* people (especially trans* women). Within three years, a Brazilian transfeminist community...

... of Feminist Studies in Religion 34 , no. 1 : 68 – 75 . Patel N. 2017 . “ Violent Cistems: Trans Experiences of Bathroom Space .” Agenda 31 , no. 1 : 51 – 63 . Pearce Ruth , Erikainen Sonja , and Vincent Ben . 2020 . “ TERF Wars: An Introduction .” Sociological...

... for being a TERF (not true). 1 They are odd not simply for their intensity, but in that the butch should be the central character of her one-act play called Females ! Why? Because, here's a thought, if we are all females and we all hate it, then, we are all stone butches. Stone butches like Butler, like...

... elements of Rowling's essay published on June 10, 2020, originally titled “TERF Wars,” which prompted an online backlash and a subsequent cycle of negative legacy media coverage against trans people. The article deconstructs two opinion pieces in the Scotsman and the National that depict Rowling...

... themselves as leftist, “gender critical feminists,” or more accurately: TERFs. TERFs in England where I live prefer to be called “gender critical feminists.” They claim that their “feminism” is politically left wing and, quite bizarrely, not antitrans. There is considerable evidence, however...

... on the relationship between anti-gender ideology, TERF rhetoric, and the state (in Europe, in these cases), see, for example, Gennero 2017 ; Keil 2020 ; Korolczuk 2020 ; and Peto 2016 . In addition to TERF , I will be using phrases like trans antagonist and transphobic , which for my purposes...

... was a flashpoint in the mainstreaming of what many recognize as trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) or what proponents themselves term “gender critical feminism.” In 2018, the UK government held an online survey for public responses to proposed changes in the Gender Recognition Act: if passed, these changes...

... to be as rare as they were inadvisable. Attesting to anything less than the total efficacy of GCS risked providing trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and right-wing bigots fresh ammunition for attacking trans medical care. Chu's essay holds out the hope that, decades now into the transgender rights...

... survival in the future (Rich 1972 ), the transfeminist genealogy of Gold Rush advocates for the dissociation of feminist selves through the demarcation of their dispersion across time. My vid claims that the 1970s does not belong to trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), identifying...

... movement increasingly finds common ground with a contingent of transphobic self-described “gender-critical” feminists or TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) who oppose “transgenderism” on the basis that it constitutes harm against (presumably nontransgender) girls and women. They ignore a robust...

... persons being especially vulnerable). See Haas, Rodgers, and Herman 2014 . 3. The term TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminists) is often used to describe these feminists. I avoid this term because I want to address those who disagree with me on terms that will allow for open and honest...