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Anti-trans feminism since the 1960s

After a couple of recent essays by Sophie Lewis chronicling this movement. Particularly because the anti-trans movement is fond of suggesting that trans people sprang into existence yesterday, I’m fascinated with timelines.

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YouTube still of the video: Should TERFs unite with the Right? It shows both panelists, Bindel and Joyce, with the moderator, Florence Read. They're seated in chairs with a bookcase behind them.

Would you work with the ‘Alliance Defending Freedom’?

A 2022 Bindel–Joyce debate in which Joyce calls my gender ‘an attack on the whole institution of civilization’. She thinks she’s preserving ‘the Enlightenment,’ ‘evidence,’ ‘stable meanings,’ ‘how you do science’, ‘the whole institution of civilization.’

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How Many Anti-Trans Laws Were Proposed Last Week?

We need to pay attention to all 50 U.S. states—as well as all countries—but doing all that in the same article makes for challenging storytelling and storylistening. Reed’s article yesterday highlighted five U.S. states, so I’ll go with her approach.

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