Elite University Student Union Pushes ‘Transphobia’ Witch Hunt, Releases Guide For Spotting ‘Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists’
As defined by the guide, TERFs hold “a conservative, binary, essentialist conception of sex as the be-all-end-all, and a deep hatred for trans women, couched in the language of feminism and feminist theory” and that “there should be no room for transphobia or TERFs in feminist organizing.”
The document, which has been labeled a “witch-finder’s charter” by Cambridge Professor James Orr, was released just days after Professor of Philosophy Kathleen Stock from University of Sussex was targeted by protests and campaigns led by a group of non-binary, trans and queer students.
The anonymous group launched a protest and accompanying social media campaign to rally for her dismissal, triggering a flood of online threats and abuse toward Stock. The protest stemmed from outrage over her feminist position that has been labeled “transphobic,” including a statement of concern for the safety of women in the UK, where “genitally-intact male trans women who self-declare as ‘women’ already have access to some women-only spaces: prisons, hostel dormitories, sleeper carriages, changing rooms.”
As defined by the guide, TERFs hold “a conservative, binary, essentialist conception of sex as the be-all-end-all, and a deep hatred for trans women, couched in the language of feminism and feminist theory” and that “there should be no room for transphobia or TERFs in feminist organizing.”
The document, which has been labeled a “witch-finder’s charter” by Cambridge Professor James Orr, was released just days after Professor of Philosophy Kathleen Stock from University of Sussex was targeted by protests and campaigns led by a group of non-binary, trans and queer students.
The anonymous group launched a protest and accompanying social media campaign to rally for her dismissal, triggering a flood of online threats and abuse toward Stock. The protest stemmed from outrage over her feminist position that has been labeled “transphobic,” including a statement of concern for the safety of women in the UK, where “genitally-intact male trans women who self-declare as ‘women’ already have access to some women-only spaces: prisons, hostel dormitories, sleeper carriages, changing rooms.”
