Yeah not only is it dehumanising to trans women, but what about all the people since the beginning of time that were born with ambiguous or irregular genitals or chromosomes?

I get that this is bad, but in the 90s she hounded a trans woman chemistry professor (I think, it happened when I was really young so it’s a bit murky) in a campaign that would make the WBC proud. She’s not going to move forward ever and we need to accept this and respond appropriately.

I mean, saying you can’t be a woman if you’re not born with the right body parts is essentially reducing women to a walking uterus. And that’s kind of what we’re against.

Germaine Greer, the second-wave feminist best known for her 1970 book The Female Eunuch, accused Caitlyn Jenner of “stealing the limelight” from the other women of the Kardashian clan...

Yes, them.

....which has nothing to do with this discussion really? You have some people yelling FREE SPEECH because, er, a group of students started a petition, which is free speech under either of your ‘sides’ (government action or moral right).

There’s a not-uncommon and particularly stupid school of feminism that sees transgender women as some kind of evil infiltrators that want to become women to take over the narrative or I can’t even, but that’s what this is.

If you think her transphobia is bad, you should see what she has to say about FGM (pro) and fucking underage boys (also pro). Lady has been off the rails for a loooooong time.

To say so is coming from a place of privilege. While there is so much violence being committed against trans women, it is important to call out folks who undermine trans women’s experiences and validity. Allowing that kind of rhetoric to continue creates allowance for the attitudes that are dangerous toward a…

Ross Douthat already gets paid to do the head-shaking Golden Mean thing. I’m not sure why you’re doing it for free.

I think sometimes self-described, self-defined, and self-enclosed feminists are more hostile than the average person to whomever they perceive as outsiders using “their” titles, because they don’t want to give up what they perceive as special status, as if expanding allyship is watering down feminism. Which is…

So her argument is that Caitlyn Jenner wanted to steal fame from the female members of her family so she became a woman. That’s a very “unique” argument. Her saying that transgender women aren’t like real women because they don’t look or act a certain way makes me roll my eyes. Aren’t we fighting against the idea that…

i think you’re so great, sqarr.

I’ll say it again: Feminism without intersectionality is just various shades of bigotry.

How hard is it to leave people alone? If you don’t think they are real women, so what? They’re not going to need your permission to live their lives, and you can’t take away their right to take hormone therapy and wear the clothes they want, so what do you want to accomplish here? Jail them? Encourage more…

My little brother accidentally disrupted one of her speeches because he was in an echo chamber late at night with an opera singer and thought he’d try out singing the Les Miz soundtrack with her. Yeah turned out Greer was giving a speech just off the corridor and due to sound issues they were louder than her so they…

Granted, this is referring to the US and not the UK.

What I find interesting is that unlike some other transphobic second wave feminists, Greer’s insistence that trans women are not women has always seemed to be based on visceral disgust more than the usual a priori theories (which in any event boil down to “trans women aren’t women because they aren’t women”) — as in…

How would refusing to have Greer as a speaker “drown out the right to free speech”?

“What they are saying is that because I don’t think surgery will turn a man into a woman I should not be allowed to speak anywhere.”