Except she gets way more hate for that than any of the dozens of other people who originally signed a petition for Polanski. Tilda Swinton did exactly the same thing, and nobody ever shits on her for it.

Adrienne Rich, not “Andriene.” Famous second wave feminist; poet; died a few years ago?

The trailer really bothered me. It was written by a straight white guy? Figures. It sounds like he’s been watching too many episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

As expected, the TERF contingent shows up (sneering references to “lady brains” are a tell).

Don’t you understand that back in the 1970s there was a particular narrative that trans women had to conform to in order to be approved for transition? Including being attracted to men (we wouldn’t want to create lesbians, after all!), always wearing skirts or dresses (because if you show up in pants you’re not…

I completely agree with you — it doesn’t delegitimize or detract from Jenner’s struggle, or change the fact that Jenner never had cis privilege, and references to trans women having had male privilege are almost always designed to do exactly that. However, I would be foolish to deny that trans women can benefit to an…

I’m not “talking to” trans women; I am one. And I didn’t bring up the “male privilege” derail; I responded to it. Also, just fyi, I strongly dislike the MTF, FTM, “male to female,” female to male terminology. Because it implies something that many trans people don’t believe was ever true, and wrongly equates (for…

Read my other comments on this post and you’ll see that I’m a trans woman myself and completely support Jenner. Including on the so-called “male privilege” issue. In fact, I’m less than 10 years younger than Jenner, and remember the 1970s, and how terribly difficult it was to transition back then. (I considered it…

And as someone pointed out, coming out as a trans woman and/or actually transitioning back in the 1970s was still getting people committed to mental institutions and subjected to electroshock therapy and God knows what else. It wasn’t a ticket to being allowed to compete in the Olympics as a trans woman. Look at the…

It’s hardly a slur. Most of the most vocal transphobic feminists have, traditionally, identified as radical feminists. And I’m highly skeptical of any transphobic non-radical feminist who claims that they’re being “slurred” by the term TERF, because they’re not really radical feminists. It’s not like they’re denying…

Some people use “TEF” instead to make it a little harder for transphobic feminists who don’t view themselves as radical feminists to absolve themselves of any responsibility for their transphobic views.

They’re not really trans-inclusive at all. Their policy is still that MWMF is intended for “womyn born womyn,” but that they won’t kick trans women out if they go. (From what I understand, they’ll simply be subjected, if “visibly trans,” to a lot of hostility from other attendees.) But they’ve cut off their nose to…

Yes; give him the chance to live as a woman for a while before you accuse him of “playing” as one, Ms. Eve. He hasn’t claimed that his experience is the same as someone assigned female at birth and raised as female.

Yes, Jenner certainly took advantage of the opportunities afforded him by male privilege. Not all trans women are able to do so in remotely the same way, and almost none perceive maleness in the same way as cis men while growing up. It’s erroneous to assume that prior to transition (especially as children) trans women…

Supposedly, it’s a documentary. Slight difference.

So you’re one those people who meets one trans woman whom they don’t like or who says something stupid, and threatens as a result to withhold support from all trans woman. Do you do that when you meet someone you don’t like who’s Jewish or black?

They believe they’re women selling out to the patriarchy for personal status (the equivalent of “race traitors”), or at least deceived by the powerful misogynist trans lobby.

I very much agree. As I said above, transphobic feminism is much more mainstream in those countries than in the U.S., and the most prominent transphobic feminists (Jeffries, Bindel, and others) still have regular access to major media platforms in a way that no transphobic feminist has here.

Straw woman there. Of course there are “differences”; I got to where I am by a different path from most women, but I’m here now. TERFs believe trans women can never be women, no matter what.

Alice Eve is English. It’s very clear that transphobia is still considered at least somewhat acceptable in mainstream British feminism, in a way it has not been in the U.S. for at least the last decade. Germaine Greer, Julie Bindel, etc. — the stature in U.S. feminism, of people like the notorious C. Brennan doesn’t…