What Is a Woman?

What is a Woman? Response to Jacqueline Rose

Simon Elmer The week after I published my article, ‘Trans Rights and the Order of Speech’ in Off-Guardian, The New Statesman published two articles by, respectively, the biologist, Richard Dawkins, ‘Why biological sex matters’ and the feminist, Jacqueline Rose, ‘The gender binary is false’. I don’t know Rose personally, but her 1986 book, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, had a considerable influence on …

Tune In To TERFtalk Tuesdays

If you are not familiar with the word TERF (as opposed to turf) it is of course an acronym.  The term stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, or as they are increasingly becoming known, women who exhibit common sense. The TERF talking on Tuesdays is everyone’s favourite peroxide blonde mother of four Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, but as […]