Transnegation
About
Advocacy for transmisia takes a variety of forms. As overt religious arguments lost traction over the late 2010s (having lost most of their credibility during their war on gay people), people holding those views have found more subtle ways to lend their ideas plausibility.
There are also a growing number of self-identified feminists who have apparently become convinced by various propaganda that trans people represent a threat to women's safety. Since these people do not represent the majority of feminists (or even the majority of cis women), they have become referred to as "trans-exclusionary radical feminists" or "TERFs". The TERF branch of transmisia advocacy 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.
Related
- TERF ideology heavily promotes transmisia, whether accidentally or not
- UK/transmisia: transmisia in the UK
Advocates
A list of people who promote transmisia, whether accidentally (via being honestly taken in by misinformation) or deliberately:
- Alice Dreger
- Graham Linehan UK
- J.K. Rowling: UK TERF, supports Maya Forstater, repeats myths
- Maya Forstater: UK TERF, repeats myths
- Paul McHugh: US; bad science; gender fundamentalist
- Ray Blanchard: US/CA; bad science; says homosexuality is "not normal"
Links
- CWRE: Myths/transgendrity: popular myths about transgenderness
Related
- 2020/10/02 [L..T] Young trans men share brutal accounts of conversion therapy camps, where they were abused and forced to carry heavy rocks “...in June, J.K. Rowling liked a tweet from a Canadian anti-trans organisation called We The Females opposing a proposed law in Canada that would ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ youth, including trans kids. [..] Like other anti-trans organisations, We The Females propose that trans youth should be subjected to “gender-critical therapy”, to deter or prevent them from transitioning. Gender-critical feminists often claim that affirming therapists railroad youth. ”
- 2020/07/27 [L..T] Just an ordinary TERF talking about biology Myers dissects some bizarre arguments from @lissyboops, who is apparently of the TERF persuasion.
- 2018/02/15 [L..T] Transgender Women Aren't "Women" "I wanted to talk about the fact that I personally find it kind of offensive when transgender people don't own the fact that they're trans." Video is Tweeted, and much debate ensues.