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The Imperative Of Rejecting "Gender-Critical" Feminism In The Law, Henry F. Fradella
The Imperative Of Rejecting "Gender-Critical" Feminism In The Law, Henry F. Fradella
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Roughly a half-century ago at the height of the second-wave feminist movement, some feminist scholars and activists found themselves arguing with transgender people about who is a woman. While much of contemporary feminist thought has moved past biological essentialism’s outdated embrace of a sex binary to embrace trans-equality, a relatively small but vocal group of self-proclaimed “gender-critical feminists” (who are sometimes called trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or “TERFs” for short) eschew transgender legal rights that they perceive as potentially threatening to the rights of cisgender women. Most gender-critical arguments in that regard are fallacious; they are based on myths and false …