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If you’re wondering why “A surprisingly mainstream movement of feminists known as TERFs oppose transgender rights as a symptom of “female erasure,” in Britain, read this:

How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opi…
“But perhaps biggest factor in the rise of TERFism has been relative dearth of social movements in Britain over the past 3 decades.” Elsewhere “mass movements...around effects of globalization & police brutality have produced long overdue dialogue on race, gender & class.”
“In Britain, however, the space for this sort of dialogue has been much more limited. As a result, middle- and upper-class white feminists have not received the pummeling from black and indigenous feminists that their American counterparts have...”
In #London after one of my talks, 2 white transphobic lesbians followed me to dinner to urge me not to support trans rights. A gay #Saudi man, a bisexual Saudi woman, and I defended trans rights. In no other country have transphobes followed me to dinner after an event to argue.
I’d given a talk at a uni that was NOT about trans issues. But the transphobia knew I support trans rights. And so they followed me to dinner. My 2 Saudi friends were in attendance at the talk and joined me for dinner and the 3 of us were astounded at the transphobic vitriol.
“Significantly, many #Irish feminists have rejected Britain’s TERFism, citing their experience of colonialism explicitly as part of the reason.”
White British TERFs conveniently ignore the existence of gender diversity globally. “It’s also worth noting that the obsession with supposed “biological realities” of people like Ms. Parker is part of a long tradition of British feminism interacting with colonialism and empire.
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