Often considered the ur-text of trans-exclusionary feminism, Janice Raymond’s “The Transsexual Empire” came out in 1979, but rehearses a bunch of tropes you could just as well get off JK Rowling’s Twitter feed. In their conversation with historian Susan Stryker, Moira and Adrian explore the very specific milieu from which Raymond and her book emerged — a radical lesbian feminist theology deeply disappointed with the Catholic Church.
“Anti-Gender” Politics (en), Anti-Trans Politics (en), Feminism (en), Feminist Theory (en), Gender (en), History of Ideas (en), In Bed With The Right Podcast (en), Reactionary Feminism (en), Susan Stryker (en), TERF (en), Transphobia (en)
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