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It might be a sign of the end-times, or simply a function of our currently scrambled politics, but earlier this week, four feminist activists - three from a self-described radical feminist organization Women's Liberation Front - appeared on a panel at the Heritage Foundation. Together they argued that sex was fundamentally biological, and not socially constructed, and that there is a difference between women and trans women that needs to be respected. For this, they were given a rousing round of applause by the Trump supporters, religious-right members, natural law theorists, and conservative intellectuals who comprised much of the crowd.
If you think I've just discovered an extremely potent strain of weed and am hallucinating, check out the video of the event.
I've no doubt that many will see these women as anti-trans bigots, or appeasers of homophobes and transphobes, or simply deranged publicity seekers. (The moderator, Ryan Anderson, said they were speaking at Heritage because no similar liberal or leftist institution would give them space or time to make their case.) And it's true that trans-exclusionary radical feminists or TERFs, as they are known, are one minority that is actively
not tolerated by the LGBTQ establishment, and often demonized by the gay community. It's also true that they can be inflammatory, offensive, and obsessive. But what interests me is their underlying argument, which deserves to be thought through, regardless of our political allegiances, sexual identities, or tribal attachments. Because it's an argument that seems to me to contain a seed of truth. Hence, I suspect, the intensity of the urge to suppress it.
Comment: Not every victim of child abuse becomes a perpetrator themselves and in this case Elms seems oblivious to the abhorrent nature of her crimes:
- Pedophile Babysitter Streams Abuse on Internet
- Female predator: Married teacher arrested for sexually abusing 13 y.o. boy
- Drama teacher caught performing sex act on 15-yo student
- UK: Female physics teacher, 29, accused of sex with student
- Is France Attempting to Normalize Pedophilia?
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