The following is a response to an article complaining that Trump’s executive order on transgender defines male and female as adult human beings and claiming that his was a “new” definition. The original article appeared on Mother Jones under the…
Category: Transgender
Talking about the Female Sex Now Tantamount to Bigotry
Repression against feminists for speaking out on behalf of women as an oppressed sex class has been increasing at an alarming rate. An extensive compilation of victims in various countries and situations is available here. Ann Menasche, a feminist lawyer in California who was…
A Left Male Critiques Transgender Ideology and Drag Shows
Selections from writings by Robert Jensen It is rare to hear men on the Left speak out well and strongly in support of radical feminists in their many-layered critique of transgender ideology, pornography, prostitution and drag shows. Many Left women…
Is Your Local School Teaching the Pseudoscience of Gender Ideology?
by Kathy Scarbrough Just when it looks like some progress is being made against transgender ideology infringement on women’s hard won rights—at least in the UK and in Spain—we were alarmed to learn of the inroads it is making in…
The Left Colludes with Capitalism on “Gender Identity”
As feminists who have been critical of the concept of “gender identity” for many years, we have been exasperated and concerned that groups and individuals on the Left, who claim to be materialists, have embraced this ideology with little or…
Sloppy Science Invoked to Support Trans Ideology
by Kathy Scarbrough Not a day goes by lately when loving parents can’t be heard spouting some hackneyed sex stereotype (“my son likes pink; my daughter prefers trucks to dolls”) as evidence that their child is the opposite sex “inside”…
Dangerous Federal Decision Claims Being a Woman Is a “Choice”
by Margaret LeClair Reactions to the November 2015 U.S. Department of Education ruling that a transgender youth who identifies as female must be allowed unrestricted access to girls’ facilities have, for the most part, focused on what this means for…