I just learned that my “What Is a Woman (a response)” essay was selected as one of Medium's 32 favorites of 2023: blog.medium.com/32-of-our-favo…

ICYMI, you can read the essay here (5 min read, no paywall):
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What Is a Woman? (a response) - Julia Serano - Medium

Last month, I received an invitation to participate in a public debate about “gender and the definition of what it means to be a woman.” There was a time in the past when I would occasionally engage…

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Good grief. In the light of #LaurenceFox's comments on #GBNews, #Sky #News decided to do a piece on the #GenderPayGap. They had a man and woman on to argue about it.

It came out, live on air, that he was being paid and she wasn't. Sky apologised and offered her £75, the standard fee for such an appearance. Then they offered to increase it to £200, the same as they'd paid him.

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ETA: @MichaelPorter linked to a longer video: youtube.com/watch?v=d_nT-yQZZc…

#misogyny #feminism

This Debate Was Ridiculous

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Utah is now asking for detailed menstrual information for girls looking to register for high school sports.

#gender #rights #feminism #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #misogyny #women #girls

new essay! not only debunks "trans social contagion" & "gr00ming" charges, but shows how they're linked, and explains the unconscious thinking behind both anti-trans campaigners' obsession with us & the TERF-to-fascist pipeline.

no paywall link, pls share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so other ppl see it!
juliaserano.medium.com/anti-tr…

#trans #transgender #gay #lesbian #bisexual #LGBTQ #queer #feminism #socialjustice #sex #gender #sexuality #psychology

Anti-Trans “Grooming” and “Social Contagion” Claims Explained

There is a virtually endless list of things that supposedly cause people to become transgender. During the mid-to-late twentieth century, perhaps the most common proposed cause was faulty…

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'Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women'
feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear…
Excellent piece by the wonderful Mona Eltahawy

Some TL:DR quotes:
"This isn’t a “whose flavour of patriarchy is worse” letter. This is a “fuck the patriarchy everywhere” grenade that I gift to you. This is not The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s real life. This is a wake the fuck up because clearly you’ve been drifting, cruising on the delusions that your whiteness will save you from white supremacist patriarchy."

"The patriarchy atop theocracy melange of Iran’s “morality police” is easier to see because it is so visibly expressed in enforced hijab. But what is the enforced pregnancy of the Christian zealots in the U.S. but a melange of patriarchy built atop theocracy right here?"

"Fuck theocracy everywhere.

Fuck fascism everywhere.

Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe.

Burn. Shit. Down."

#Feminism #Iran #US #Patriarchy

Essay: Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women

Photo: Christian Mang/Reuters This essay is paired with Iran’s Feminist Revolution—Women, Life, Freedom It’s thrilling, isn’t it, watching women far away rise up? Especially when they are women whose plight was always used to shut you up.

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