https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/australia-julia-gillard-trans-question/
Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has called for "love, inclusion and respect" after being asked to define what a woman is.
gender-critical activist
Well, that is taking trivializing transphobia to a whole new level. What's next, calling fascists "democracy-critical activists"?
Fair enough. I always perceived the term 'alt right' more of an umbrella term for 'gender-critical', 'democracy-critical' and 'all-that's-not-hardcore-conservative-chistian-critical' 'activists' though.
I was just dunking on the alt right, lol. You’re right that “gender critical” is as misleadingly propagandized as “pro-life,“ especially since it absolutely sounded like what I was before my egg cracked- I can absolutely imagine someone trying to find answers about themselves, reading terf bigotry, and getting forced way back into the closet to become the trans version of the “everyone gets crushes on their friends” lady.
I can absolutely imagine someone trying to find answers about themselves, reading terf bigotry, and getting forced way back into the closet to become the trans version of the “everyone gets crushes on their friends” lady.
That's a sad image. I personally feel quite privileged by having grown up in a relatively (for the time and location) queer-friendly environment and now living in a quite accepting bubble (including my employer, coworkers, family and friends), yet I consider myself an egg that's not guaranteed to hatch due to personal insecurities and stuff.
I can't imagine how tough and gut wrenching it must be to not be this privileged and wonder about the things I do.
I was on tumblr as a teenager and didn’t come out until my twenties for exactly this reason.
the “everyone gets crushes on their friends” lady.
Is that a reference to someone in particular?
Broad part of immediately recognisable queer humorous archetypes I think, see also the "everyone's a little bit bisexual" guy or "not like the other boys" "guy".
There's an argument in favor of using the expression they chose. It taints it. They can say TERF is a slur, but, if the discussion about how horrible and wrong they are uses gender critical, they lose one deflection and anyone interested in the subject will see negative results in their research.
TERF is literally the term they chose. They don't get to change it to something else now that people are on to their bullshit.
As a trans-inclusive radical feminist sick of radical feminism being tainted by their bullshit, I strongly disagree. Let them pick a new name showing how far they’ve strayed from the feminist ideal that biology shouldn’t determine destiny.
I hear "TERF," and my attention goes to the bit on "Trans-exclusive". Never gave the "Radical feminism" bit much thought.
And before TERFs became a thing, it was just radical feminism. Having to modify it with "trans exclusive" suggests that inclusivity is actually the default position.
Except how often do you hear about radical feminists who aren’t TERFs anywhere in mainstream discourse? For much of the population, TERFs are the only “radical feminists” they hear about. (I reject the idea that a belief that biology is destiny as compatible with feminism in any case.). It’s not so much people in this community I worry about getting the wrong idea, it’s everywhere else.
I disagree. TERF is not a slur, nor is cis. If someone chooses to be offended by a term that is not offensive in any way, it's not my fault. 'Gender-critical activist' is nothing but trivialization, and if we start to use it, it gets validated.
She gives a remarkably classy and well articulated answer that shows she has actually thought about the issue. And the AU news headlines it as her "floundering".
Propaganda. That's what that original headline from the AU article linked in the PinkNews article is.
Don’t bother reading the rest of this article, the daily mail is a trash rag owned by murdoch. But here’s the only actual video I could find: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12451613/julia-gillard-woman.html#v-5451421088084411777
Small correction, the Daily Mail is indeed a trash rag but it isn't owned by Murdoch