TERFs 1: Anti-scientific Bigotry

It's time to discuss everyone's least favorite acronym: TERFs. Let's talk about what these anti-feminist transphobes, where they come from, how they're full of hot garbage, and how all their claims fall apart if you think about them for longer than ten seconds. I don't know how to tell you this (yes I do), but science is once again on the side of trans people. Science educator, writer, and doctor of astrophysics Dr. Erin Macdonald joins us to discuss how if you love science, you have to be okay with definitions changing. Hire her to be Dana Scully! Also: rights. are. not. pie.

ERIN MACDONALD Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/drerinmac.bsky.social IG: https://www.instagram.com/drerinmac YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/erinmacdonald Website: https://linktr.ee/drerinmac

TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/08/terfs/

FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at https://TillysTransTuesdays.com ) Cis is Not a Slur (there is no default human), Trans History 1: How and Why We Name Trans People in History, Trans History 2: Examples of Trans People in History, The Trans Allegory of Barbie, Trans Politics 1: Stop Tolerating Transphobia

REFERENCE MATERIAL Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day - https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/study-reveals-how-avocados-reverse-sexes-throughout-day Trump's Executive Order on Sex and Gender (lol) - https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ Biologists Rip Trump’s 'Non-Sensical' Executive Order Declaring Only 2 Sexes - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biologists-trump-executive-order-two-sexes_n_67912b73e4b039fc12781469?r0c Conservatives find unlikely ally in fighting transgender rights: Radical feminists - https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/02/07/radical-feminists-conservatives-transgender-rights/ TERFism, Zionism, and Right-Wing Annihilationism: Toward an Internationalist Genealogy of Extinction Phobia - https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-abstract/9/3/334/319374/TERFism-Zionism-and-Right-Wing The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained - https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/5/20840101/terfs-radical-feminists-gender-critical

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