It can be assumed that the editor intended to get tangible proof of the media’s efficiency: that their publications actually work to reduce transphobic attitudes. (Our comment: When translating this excerpt, we took the liberty to cut off the example of transphobic hate speech). Given the numerous discussions and publications in our media on transgender issues, did your attitudes toward transgender women change? More specifically, if you previously had a phobia of being attacked in a public toilet, did this phobia disappear after you read our materials? Why? In 2020, a noteworthy discussion took place on the platform after the editor asked their subsidiary Facebook community the following question: Having the stable financial support of Western donors, Gender in Detail is influential and well-known media. For example, the ‘ Gender in Detail‘ media platform positions itself as a trans-inclusive feminist venue and regularly publishes materials written by and in support of transgender people. Other feminist communities in Ukraine seek to oppose transphobia. However, explicit transphobia in their narratives emerged much earlier, at least a decade ago. Indeed, nowadays, Feminism UA regularly republishes transphobic materials from the British media. One might assume this transphobic turn in Ukrainian activism and academia is a part of the recent wave of global transphobic discourse that infamously exploded in a JKR debate. In this blog, we use the acronym TERF (trans-exclusive radical feminism) or terfism (as Alyosxa Tudor named it) to designate feminist transphobia. We are not providing more examples to avoid further proliferation of transphobic hate speech, but they are available online for anyone curious. In activism, though, the biggest and steadily growing Ukrainian online community, Feminism UA, openly indicates in their ground rules that it is forbidden to support trans* activism and use corresponding vocabulary (like cis- or TERF) because ‘ this is a misogynist practice’. Academics often rely on the epistemology of stable dichotomous biological sex, producing obscure but no less harmful transphobia. When researching feminisms in Ukraine, we see that overt or covert (methodological) transphobia is pertinent to a significant part of academic and activist feminist discourse. Why are some feminists transphobic? How did it happen that a considerable part of feminist communities aligns with the conservative anti-gender movements in producing anti-transgender public discourse? Sadly, we cannot share Judith Butler’s opinion that transphobic feminists are a minority. Published with permission from the author. Rowling and her exclusionary allies, pushing back against the notion that calling someone a TERF should be considered the slinging of a slur.Queer Festival in Kherson (Ukraine), 2021. In a widely shared interview, the writer took down author J.K. It is far from the first time that Judith Butler has spoken out against the TERF movement. It does not strive for consistency, for its incoherence is part of its power. “No, as a fascist trend, it mobilises a range of rhetorical strategies from across the political spectrum to maximise the fear of infiltration and destruction that comes from a diverse set of economic and social forces. “The anti-gender movement is not a conservative position with a clear set of principles,” they write. “For instance, they object to ‘gender’ because it putatively denies biological sex or because it undermines the natural or divine character of the heteronormative family.”Įlsewhere in the article, Butler separates the TERF ideology from other conservative arguments that have come before it, calling the trend a “fascist” one. Judith Butler Blasts TERFs and JK Rowling In This Extraordinary New Interview
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