Ep 142: Left Wing Culture War 5: Protection or Solidarity?
TERF’s: the ever present punching bag of the woke left that ruined Harry Potter. I finish my series on inter left conflict with the one revolving around Trans rights, but may touch at wider ideas about what makes a leftist in the first place. I also bookend the show with takes on the silly but complex slap by Will Smith. In the First Half I cover a Full background of TERFs and their effects over the years and today then a response to the argument over kink and politics at Pride.
In the 2nd half I use the ongoing sports issue to discuss the separation from the ‘gender critical’ from the effects of their politics; then cover the pushing out of TERFs from the Greens in the UK and US, with parting words that Solidarity, not Paranoia and protection make the difference.
Music Used: Deconstruct, by Patrica Traxon: Bread and Roses, by Cincinnatis’ Womens Choir
Sources
A full background of TERFs from a Trans DC Journo
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/5/20840101/terfs-radical-feminists-gender-critical
Results of the case. Other news the Plantiff Died before hand.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jun/15/supreme-court-civil-rights-law-lgbtq
Where kink fits in the conversation, and how The right take advantage.
https://simonmcneil.com/2021/05/26/nazis-puriteens-and-accessibility-the-pointless-kink-at-pride-discourse/
Science Paper discussed the mistakes in thinking about Identity and Ideology.
https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/3728
Gender Critical Teachers get push back for trying to find ‘solution’ to the trans issue.
https://4w.pub/two-oregon-educators-fired-after-speaking-out-about-gender-identity-policies/
Piece arguing for excluding trans-women athletes; they belong with the men.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/jun/22/by-conflating-gender-and-sex-we-undermine-sporting-competition?
Facebook post lists the counter arguments
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10108307908491848&set=pcb.10108307910587648
(for fairness) A full Gender Critical Article written by Marxist (former) Green Candidate without comment. Reacting to NY passing Trans protections post Court ruling or ahead of it.
https://capitaldistrictcitizen.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/new-yorks-gender-recognition-act-and-the-legal-falsification-of-biological-reality/
Green Candidate in UK speaks out about the problem of Terf activism.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/10/sian-berry-green-party-trans-rights-commission-london-mayor-kathryn-bristow/
Background on Kicking a group of Terfs out of the Greens
https://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=1062
Washington Greens statement on their vote to kick out Terfs
https://greenpartywashington.org/2021/07/19/disaccreditation-of-the-georgia-green-party/
The Oppressed need solidarity, not protection. Perhaps the ultimate divide in Cultural values.
https://www.facebook.com/tonyndege/posts/10159067961941928
Youtuber reviews good takes plus Bell Hooks on Will Smith Slap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcIus0HSRM
Youtuber responses to a latent argument for biological essential-ism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATYr4t9oAsM&t=525s