Transfeminist Possibilities and Remembering the 1970s

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Notes

Notes

1 Viv Smythe describes invoking the term TERF in 2008 to refer to feminists who draw on narratives of trans predators and trans infiltration of feminist spaces to deny trans people are within the feminist purview.

2 Gender-critical feminism generally refers to self-identified feminists, since the early 2000s, who espouse reactionary positions to recent trans-affirming social and legal changes. The terms TERF and GC indicate a shared politic of biological essentialism and are often used interchangeably.

3 Today, TERFs and/as (post)fascists represent “two political projects that are simultaneously deploying transphobia, and transmisogyny in particular, as part of a call to return to a melancholically mourned ‘authentic womanhood’ that has allegedly been lost” (Bassi and LaFleur 313). See also Butler.

4 On the strategic rhetoric of temporality in gender critical/TERF debates, see Tudor.

5 Beth Elliott coauthored her memoir with Geri Nettick, one of Elliott’s own pseudonyms.