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* [[/Twitter]]: there seems to be some anti-trans campaigning on Twitter, with varying degrees of subtlety
 
* [[/UK]]: anti-trans advocacy in the UK
 
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* [[TERF]] ideology heavily promotes anti-trans beliefs
 
* [[TERF]] ideology heavily promotes anti-trans beliefs

Revision as of 23:38, 5 August 2020

About

Anti-trans is advocacy which has the net effect of needlessly working against the social rights or equality of transgender people. It is not necessarily malicious in intent, though it always seems to inevitably point towards unspoken transmisia as a root cause.

Anti-trans advocacy takes a variety of forms.

As overtly religious arguments lost traction over the late 2010s (having shed most of their credibility during their war on gay people), people holding those views have found more subtle ways to lend their ideas plausibility and have reoriented their focus toward criticism of transgenderness, which lags behind homosexuality in its popular acceptance.

There are also a growing number of self-identified feminists and "pro-woman" advocates (not necessarily feminists) who represent themselves as believing that trans rights represent a threat to women's safety. Since these people do not represent the majority of feminists (or even the majority of cisgender women), they have become referred to as "trans-exclusionary radical feminists" or "TERFs".

The TERF branch of anti-trans advocacy most notably represents a growing political force in the UK, where trans rights have been well established for some time but legal improvements and updates are needed in order to accommodate improved understanding.

Pages

  • /JKR: author J.K. Rowling has been a heavy promoter of anti-trans beliefs and sentiments
  • /Twitter: there seems to be some anti-trans campaigning on Twitter, with varying degrees of subtlety
  • /UK: anti-trans advocacy in the UK

Related

  • TERF ideology heavily promotes anti-trans beliefs

Advocates

People who promote anti-trans beliefs include:

Examples

  • 2018-04-05 Ankhassa@Twitter "There is no need for any other definition for a woman apart from "woman". Its a description which has been representative for thousands of years. As has "man". If it doesn't suit you why on earth would you claim be one?" -- The last tweet in a long discussion that began with a link to a YouTube video entitled "Transgender Women Aren't 'Women'"

Links

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