Your Anti-Trans Bigotry Is Not Feminism: On TERFs, From a Trans Woman — The Reed College Quest

Your Anti-Trans Bigotry Is Not Feminism: On TERFs, From a Trans Woman — The Reed College Quest

This year, among the student body, there has been a small but vocal group of people—colloquially called TERFs, “Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists”—who have given voice to a certain kind of anti-trans bigotry, masquerading as feminism. I, someone who has recently come out as a trans woman, would like to respond to these voices.  I’m hesitant to write this, because I know that most people who do not already agree with me will simply stop readin…