It might be a sign of the end-times, or simply a function of our currently scrambled politics, but earlier this week, four feminist activists — three from a self-described radical feminist organization Women’s Liberation Front — appeared on a panel at the Heritage Foundation. Together they argued that sex was fundamentally biological, and not socially constructed, and that there is a difference between women and trans women that needs to be respected. For this, they were given a rousing round of applause by the Trump supporters, religious-right members, natural law theorists, and conservative intellectuals who comprised much of the crowd. If you think I’ve just discovered an extremely potent strain of weed and am hallucinating, check out the video of the event.
I’ve no doubt that many will see these women as anti-trans bigots, or appeasers of homophobes and transphobes, or simply deranged publicity seekers. (The moderator, Ryan Anderson, said they were speaking at Heritage because no similar liberal or leftist institution would give them space or time to make their case.) And it’s true that trans-exclusionary radical feminists or TERFs, as they are known, are one minority that is actively not tolerated by the LGBTQ establishment, and often demonized by the gay community. It’s also true that they can be inflammatory, offensive, and obsessive. But what interests me is their underlying argument, which deserves to be thought through, regardless of our political allegiances, sexual identities, or tribal attachments. Because it’s an argument that seems to me to contain a seed of truth. Hence, I suspect, the intensity of the urge to suppress it.
The title of the Heritage panel conversation — “The Inequality of the Equality Act” — refers to the main legislative goal for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ lobbbying group in the US. The proposed Equality Act — a federal nondiscrimination bill that has been introduced multiple times over the years in various formulations — would add “gender identity” to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, rendering that class protected by anti-discrimination laws, just as sex is.
Socialists agenda has been to attempt to destroy any common ground of normalcy people have with one another.
We could all live together much better if these socialist “ism baiters” were dealt with and eradicated permanently.
Transsexual people are different.
I read an article recently, by someone undergoing the “sex change” , who lamented that his body would treat his new vagina as an open sore, and how much care is needed to take care of his new vagina.
I've been saying this for at least ten years. If you make the boxes for accepted "gender" roles smaller and smaller, you make the population of people who are "gender nonconforming" a majority.
I am a 52-year-old woman, married 30 years to one man as of next Monday, with ten children, all our natural, biological offspring.
However, I am not a "real woman." I have short hair and lead several church committees. Only men have short hair and lead church committees.
He is defending homosexuality. A homosexual can “teach” us the “truth” about sex? Get real.
3rd wave feminism has jumped the shark and jumped on the trans bandwagon.
TERFs recognize it's gone too far. I doubt they can put the genie back in the bottle but it's nice to see them conceding trans rights crossed the line.
“they argued that sex was fundamentally biological, and not socially constructed”
This is anti LBGQT-LSMFT!
signed, La Quinta, the black lesbian dwarf differently abled womyn.
(formerly known as Dynachrome)
A glimmer of light in the darkness.
Like roses smelling sweet no matter what you call them, call anuses anything else and their still full of crap...they don’t become vaginas because some sicko calls them that.
Aw sweet. Another panel discussion. Nothing achieved. However these dog and pony shows are valuable to the left. They’ve discovered that conservatives think that panel discussions can change things. Give the idiots a panel discussion and they’ll go home happy.