Happy to guest lecture. Anything in the general area of politics and sexuality, LGBTQ rights and social movements, trans movements for equality, anti-trans attacks. DM me or find my email at CUNY.

More: "Some of the worst New York Times stories are really contemptuous. There was a story written right after the election by Jeremy Peters that just oozed with contempt. I think it was the most biased lede I ever read. I think it basically said 'trans people are too much to endure.'"

More from Sweeney: "I think they basically legitimized, they mainstreamed disinformation....I think they put a stamp of legitimacy on medical falsehoods. They also legitimized anti-trans hate, really."

And that movement’s most influential social victory, the decoupling of ideas about biology from ideas about how women ought to be, is precisely the achievement under threat today

But the logic of this position in fact aligns with—and ultimately serves—the desire to roll back feminism itself. That trans and nonbinary people have been able to move beyond their birth sex classifications is due precisely to the successes of the women’s liberation movement.

By campaigning to make birth sex the sole basis for legal distinctions between men and women, advocates of a “gender critical” feminism evidently hope to cordon off trans women from the rest of womanhood without jeopardizing cisgender women’s access to the rights and freedoms that feminism won.

Ha! Love the idea that institutions create trans people but not cisgender people. The latter I guess just spring fully formed