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What the white supremacist roots of biological sex reveal about today’s transphobic feminism
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INSANITY IS THE NEW NORMAL WITH ARTICLES LIKE THIS:
In the most significant anti-racism demonstrations in generations, the chickens are finally coming home to roost after centuries of unbridled white supremacy.
That it's all happening against the backdrop of a global pandemic that has disproportionately killed BAME people is even more significant.
Yet, as the inequity of capitalism and its inextricable link to white privilege are brought into focus, JK Rowling instead devoted her enormous Twitter platform to discussing the use of gender-neutral terms last Saturday night.
The timing of her social media tirade is telling. In the context of a collective reckoning with how our economic, political and social systems have dehumanised black lives for centuries, it seemed the fantasy-writer turned billionaire had decided an equally pressing issue was making grand claims about the estimated 1 per cent of the population who identify as trans.
Transphobia is tethered to the malign structures of white supremacy. So, as we harness this political moment to dismantle centuries of inherited racism, we also have a duty to understand its relationship with the kind of discourse that is, quite frankly, making life hell for trans people.
To me, Rowling appears to be arguing that transgender people are erasing the fact of biological sex. The idea that transgender people are an ideological cult on a mission to vanquish the very idea of sex is a common argument in certain circles. But before we examine this ridiculous claim, let us first consider where the limited idea of binary sex came from. Again, the recent protests are an important backdrop. On Sunday, the statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader responsible for exploiting around 80,000 African lives, came crashing down in Bristol. And so starts the process of unchaining Britain from the rotten legacy of colonialism.
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