Transsexual Empire
by Janice G. Raymond · first published 1979
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…books to start off with - two classics, for the historical perspective, and two more recent ones, that discuss the modern transactivist movement that's so controversial right now: * Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male * Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism * Julie Bindel, Feminism for Women: The Real Route To Liberation * Kara Dansky, The…
on “Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit” ↗…grinding starts in the 1970s with the rise and splintering of the Radical Feminist movement, the rise of Radical Lesbian Feminism and in particular the seminal book for what people now call TERFs, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male written in 1979 by Janice Raymond. Absolutely nothing uttered by JK is her own original idea and you can trace them all the way back to where they actually came from and what…
on “Focus on things that don't change” ↗…condemn the parts of it that are transphobic, and I wonder why nobody mentions it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transphobia#Transphobia_in_femi... > Radical feminist Janice Raymond's 1979 book, The Transsexual Empire, was and still is controversial due to its unequivocal condemnation of transsexual surgeries. In the book Raymond says, "All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact,…
on “Stay-at-home dad” ↗…benefitted trans people, but we're at a point now where they have their own struggles, like the struggle for medical treatment. It's a struggle that's been fought since the 70's when Janice Raymond wrote "The Transsexual Empire" and worked with the Reagan administration to make it more difficult for trans people to get medical treatment. Nothing about it is new, except for the alliance between conservative Christians and secular…
on “The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood” ↗…difficult which I think is the point right? Janice Raymond said that she wanted to see transsexualism extinguished by making it as costly and difficult as possible to be trans more or less in her book The Transsexual Empire.... It's cruelty for the sake of marginalizing a group out of existence. Very ugly stuff. If it weren't for that, I think the debate around self-id would be a lot less fraught. It's depressing to me…
on “The War over Academic Freedom” ↗