“Clarice defeats Bill, who crumples to the ground, curled into a shaking form clearly meant to convey (an ableist vision of) monstrousness. And Clarice rescues femininity from the darkest depths of male violence: the lair of a trans woman.”— Jos Truitt, feministing.comTagged: feminism, Transsexual, LGBTQ, transmisogy
“If people who aren’t trans women want to advance a version of feminism that values trans women and prioritizes our struggles, they must reckon with the real harm that has been done to us in feminism’s name.”— Jos Truitt, feministing.comTagged: feminism, Transsexual, LGBTQ, transmisogy
“Trans women’s very existence (was seen as) an act of sexual violence against cis women, which supported the transmisogynistic feminist argument that trans women were violent men invading women’s spaces. These ideas were used by feminists to successfully exclude trans women from accessing women’s she…”— Jos Truitt, feministing.comTagged: feminism, Transsexual, LGBTQ, transmisogy