The NY Times goes concern trolling
On August 22, 2015, the NY Times ran an article by Richard A. Friedman titled, “How Changeable Is Gender?” One might be excused for mistaking the piece as an earnest call to the medical community for better…
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InfoWars: California Green Party “Slaps” “Cisgendered” Men!
Or not. Perhaps you’ve seen this image floating around the Internets today: As InfoWars reports, “The California Green Party is attracting controversy after posting an image on its official Instagram page which promotes ‘free…
See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid
Tumblr TERF, radfem-momma apparently thinks it’s okay to threaten trans kids with murder as long as you lie about the reason. Apparently, some TERFs on Tumblr are trying to figure out how to justify their…
Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
The yearly struggle the trans community experiences with MichFest has been taking place for so long, some of us have trouble remembering why MichFest’s “womyn-born womyn” policy was such a painful issue for the feminist…
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The TransAdvocate interviews Catharine A. MacKinnon
Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, theorist, and activist. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard…
Sex work and the sex worker
“K” is an intersex, trans and sex worker rights advocate. I interviewed K about their sex work experiences, how the needs of sex workers might be respectfully addressed and the ways in which feminist frameworks…
#CisPrivilege, UK’s Green Party and freedom of speech
Some of you might remember that Germaine Greer, a TERF the Radical Feminist Andrea Dworkin took to task for trying to pass off patriarchy as feminism, made some small waves for appealing to the patriarchal vagina…
Sex Essentialism: TERF patriarchy and smelly vaginas
TERFs battle over who has the correct vaginal odor in order to determine female validity. I’ve noted many times that while Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) like to speak on behalf of Radical Feminism, the type…
As #LeelahAlcorn’s mom talks to CNN, Leelah’s Reddit posts come back to haunt her
While her mom talks to CNN to profess her love and support, Leelah’s Reddit posts paint a homelife defined by bullying and fear. Much has been written about Leelah Alcorn’s suicide note* which identifies conversion…