Une série intéressante dans le magazine où on ne l’attendait pas...
▻https://www.economist.com/transgender
La contribution d’une lesbienne noire :
The gender-identity movement undermines lesbians - Open Future
▻https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/03/the-gender-identity-movement-undermines-lesbians
In this current wave of “free to me” gender politics, any man with a penis can claim to be a female and expect entrance into female-segregated spaces, such as locker rooms, sports teams or colleges, without question. But don’t twist it; the generosity does not flow in both directions. Just ask the women who crashed the party at the male lido in Hampstead Heath in London in May: they were promptly escorted out by the police. Lesbian identity is now being dubbed as exclusionary or transphobic. You’re damn right it’s exclusive: lesbians have a right to say no to the phallus, no matter how it’s concealed or revealed. Imagine if white folks ran around claiming they were black or demanded access to our affinity spaces. They would be called deluded racist fools!
Et celles de deux femmes trans :
Trans rights will be durable only if campaigners respect women’s concerns - Open Future
▻https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/13/trans-rights-will-be-durable-only-if-campaigners-respect-womens-concerns
We are not going to get very far unless it is acknowledged that women and girls, as a sex, are vulnerable to males, who are on average bigger, stronger, more assertive and more violent. It is women’s experience of sexism and misogyny, and their struggle against them, not bigotry, that overwhelmingly motivates opposition to the trans movement’s current agenda. Women are concerned with their own protections from abuse, violence, discrimination and their right to single-sex provision enshrined in the Equality Act (2010), not with needlessly making life hard for trans people. Quite the contrary: many women opposed to gender self-identification are also deeply concerned about the lives, well-being and rights of trans friends, colleagues and family members.
I’m not arguing that trans women per se are any particular danger to women. There is little evidence to suggest that. However, I am horrified by the number of trans women threatening extreme, misogynistic violence. I see, almost daily, violent threats on social media aimed at women demonised as TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists).
Trans and feminist rights have been falsely cast in opposition - Open Future
▻https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/13/trans-and-feminist-rights-have-been-falsely-cast-in-opposition
I am deeply saddened that in recent years there has been renewed antagonism from a section of feminism towards trans people, and especially towards trans women. The small number of feminists loudly opposing changes to the Gender Recognition Act (which would merely make the administrative process of gender recognition less bureaucratic) are using a simplistic reading of biology that negates the natural diversities of physical sex characteristics and disregards the realities of trans people’s lives. While anti-trans viewpoints are a minority position within feminism, they are championed by several high-profile writers, many of whom reinforce the extremely offensive trope of the trans woman as a man in drag who is a danger to women.
C’est faux, que le GRA « would merely make the administrative process of gender recognition less bureaucratic » : c’est le cas de la nouvelle procédure française mais les nouvelles procédures dans les autres pays sont entièrement basées sur l’auto-définition et sur la vision très personnelle que des personnes peuvent avoir de ce que c’est d’être une femme ou un homme avant de s’être effectivement engagé·es dans un parcours trans (sans compter que c’est un critère très vulnérable à la mauvaise foi). Des féministes qui sont inclusives des femmes ou des personnes trans mais opposées à l’auto-définition sont caricaturées comme trans-exclusives ou essentialistes.
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