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20200809222035-is_cis_a_slur.org

@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ intent is quite warranted. Other times it's a means of expressing exhaustion at
 folks who simply don't "get it", and don't particularly need to. That is to say,
 cisgenderedness is a form of [[file:20200809222134-privilege.org][Privilege]].
 
-Gender-criticals or TERFs tend to avoid the adjective "cis", preferring to other
+Gender-criticals or [[file:20210105230905-trans_exclusionary_radical_feminists.org][TERFs]] tend to avoid the adjective "cis", preferring to other
 transgender men and women as "transmen" and "transwomen", separate from the
 (assumed cis) categories "men" and "women" ([[file:RuthPearceSonjaErikainen1978.org::*Terminology][Terf wars: an introduction]]).

20210105230905-trans_exclusionary_radical_feminists.org

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#+title: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists
+#+roam_alias: TERFs

RuthPearceSonjaErikainen1978.org

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ feminist politics can work to erase forms of gendered and racialised violence.
 * TERF / Gender-Critical
 #+begin_quote
 Notably, while many (but not all) trans people and allies describe
-trans-exclusionary feminist campaigners as ‘TERFs’, the campaigners themselves
+trans-exclusionary feminist campaigners as ‘[[file:20210105230905-trans_exclusionary_radical_feminists.org][TERFs]]’, the campaigners themselves
 generally object to this acronym. In recent years, many have preferred to call
 themselves ‘gender critical’ – a term that denotes, less a critical approach to
 gender, and more an emphasis on claiming ‘biologically defined’ notions of

SusanStryker2021.org

@@ -51,3 +51,39 @@ the various LGBT communities coming together to deal with the AIDS epidemic. Not
 the most fun way to pull disparate communities together, but certainly an
 effective one. *Diseases, it turns out, are quite impactful on disadvantaged
 minorities, and aggressively intersectional.*
+** ENDA
+The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Controversy over gender identity
+protections that were added (and subsequently stripped) from the failed bill
+sparked division in the LGBT movement.
+* Chapter 6: The Tipping Point?
+** Participation in uprisings
+Trans people have played significant roles in activist and anarchist groups,
+such as those who registered OccupyWallStreet.org and the Philadelphian "Trans
+World Order" group that ran its servers.
+
+There is also the case of Chelsea Manning and the information she released to
+Wikileaks. Her treatment was appallingly cruel. ACLU attorney Chase Strangio
+(also trans) handled her case until her sentence was communted by President
+Obama.
+
+The Black Lives Matter movement is itself highly intersectional in its mission.
+** Incarceration and sex work
+Trans people face possible arrest on the /assumption/ that they are involved in
+sex work. Jails and prisons are also often sex-segregated, effectively holding
+transgender men with women and vice-versa, or in solitary confinement. They may
+also be denied their hormone medication, and are at high risk of sexual assault.
+** Transgender studies
+https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/
+** Transgender civil rights
+Trans civil rights made great strides, particularly during the Obama
+administration, but faced massive setbacks as the Trump administration began. It
+feels though that now we're very much still embroiled in the backlash from those
+gains, with the behavior of the Trump administration and its emboldening of
+groups with conservative agendas alongside "[[file:20210105230905-trans_exclusionary_radical_feminists.org][Trans-Exclusionary Radical
+Feminists]]". Accusations fly of a "transgender lobby" pushing "gender ideology".
+
+#+begin_quote
+If there is a lesson to be learned from US transgender history at the
+dispiriting moment in which these words are being written, it is that trans
+people have a long record of survival in a world that is often hostile to us.
+#+end_quote