Yep, I think that’s also why the American left is more “woke” (for lack of a better term) and we’re “TERF island” over here - because in America, it’s like a reflexive reaction to religiously-inflected bigotry. Which makes it impossible to concede that, for example, (as I wrote in the piece linked right at the bottom), there can be trade…
Yep, I think that’s also why the American left is more “woke” (for lack of a better term) and we’re “TERF island” over here - because in America, it’s like a reflexive reaction to religiously-inflected bigotry. Which makes it impossible to concede that, for example, (as I wrote in the piece linked right at the bottom), there can be trade-offs routed in progressive feminist ideas and not just bigotry.
It's weird though, isn't it, that they acknowledge us as TERFs. That in itself is a tacit concession that the movement is some flavour of progressive - let's not forget that the acronym is "trans-excluding *radical feminist*". Ron de Santis isn't a TERF, he's TE but he's definitely not RF.
Yep, I think that’s also why the American left is more “woke” (for lack of a better term) and we’re “TERF island” over here - because in America, it’s like a reflexive reaction to religiously-inflected bigotry. Which makes it impossible to concede that, for example, (as I wrote in the piece linked right at the bottom), there can be trade-offs routed in progressive feminist ideas and not just bigotry.
It's weird though, isn't it, that they acknowledge us as TERFs. That in itself is a tacit concession that the movement is some flavour of progressive - let's not forget that the acronym is "trans-excluding *radical feminist*". Ron de Santis isn't a TERF, he's TE but he's definitely not RF.