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  • There is the goeuropean.org website, but it filters exclusively through country of origin. For example, it’ll recommend Spotify as an alternative to YouTube music because it’s Swedish; despite the fact that it has donated to Trump and made a very lucrative deal with Joe Rogan. I think the best strategy is sorting through European brands first, then check out if any of them supports the far right in an important way, like the aforementioned Spotify.


  • He knew. There’s no way he didn’t know, given that she wasn’t on hrt and hadn’t had any surgeries done at the time; even though she may have been misleading. He only sued because of regret after the fact. The arguments presented by her defense are the most likely scenario. What cis men complained cis women would do to them back when metoo happened, they’re doing now to trans women the first chance they’ve had. I hope this is a wake up call for UK trans folk to stop sexual encounters with cis folk, especially cis men.












  • She wrote an article about trans women in sports about a year ago, trying to hold a “centrist position” where trans women and transfem folk would only get excluded sometimes, and surprise surprise, she drew the line at participation in sports teams, she herself being a hockey player. Of course, she was devastated a few months ago when she was sacked from her team. Fuck compromise. Trans people should never accommodate nor apologize for who we are.









  • I’m referring precisely to figures like Joyce and Rowling when I talk about the “terf-feminist divorce”. I agree that the modern “gender critical” individuals have little to do with feminists, and they themselves are moving away from the classic moniker too. But as a movement, I’m aiming for just the contrary, underlining the “feminist” in terf. remembering that terf stems from feminism points a finger at the failures of white, straight, upper-middle class feminism. I think it leads to much more useful discussion than trying to restrict a movement to its foundational authors and texts.


  • When those ideas were injected into the movement so early in its history, was it coopted by bad actors or actively shaped by them?

    It’s true that Dworkin wasn’t anti-trans, even if the transphobic ideas of her time seep into her work, as we see in the paternalistic attitude present in this passage. However, we have a few years, a decade at best, of radical feminism being trans-ambivalent before terfism became a prominent part of the movement. And that’s gone on for almost five decades. Even with the current terf-feminist divorce of the last decade, prominent contemporary authors that identify as radfem, such as Amelia Valcárcel, are quite transphobic.

    Compare that to intersectional feminism. Even if Hooks’ foundational Feminist Theory contains questionable elements in her argumentation (like saying, or at least implying that gays and lesbians don’t suffer systemic oppression), she herself revised those ideas in later works and later trans feminist authors got grandmothered into the current.