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The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism

Tudor, Alyosxa

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Trans-exclusionary feminists are using the trope of ‘protecting women’ as their main weapon while accusing trans-inclusive feminisms of misogyny. It is a rhetorical figure that we can call ‘the weaponization of accusations of violence’. And we witness it as a strategy cutting across many contexts, for example, blanket accusations of anti-Semitism against anti-Zionists, accusations of Hinduphobia to shut down resistance against Hindutva, and accusations of misogyny and sexual violence against transfeminism or trans-inclusive feminism. In this article, I discuss such accusations of violence together with examples that demonstrate that they often come with an absolute incapacity to conceive of the most basic intersectional analysis. I argue that trans-exclusionary feminism is getting the very paradigms of what misogyny is and what kind of intersectional, transnational feminisms are needed to fight it, completely wrong. With this, anti-trans feminism reveals itself to be inherently anti-feminist. We are currently witnessing a supernational unification of far right, centrist and leftist agents using anti-gender, anti-feminist and transphobic mobilisations, populist affects and strategic disinformation as accelerators for hateful and anti-democratic agendas. Ultimately, this leads to a consolidation of the global shift to the right.

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Tudor, A. (2023). The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism. European Journal of Women's Studies, 30(2), 290-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068231164217

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 22, 2023
Publication Date May 6, 2023
Deposit Date Mar 2, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 2, 2023
Journal European Journal of Women's Studies
Print ISSN 1350-5068
Electronic ISSN 1461-7420
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 2
Pages 290-302
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068231164217
Keywords transfeminism; queer feminism; lesbian feminism; abolition; intersectionality; anti-gender attacks; gender ideology; trans-exclusionary feminism; anti-feminism;
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505068231164217

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