Woman-Blaming and Bad Feminisms
Part one of a three-part talk with UK feminist Mallory Moore on trans feminism, trans conflict, and trans care.
Note: This is Part One of a three-part story. You can read Part Two here and Part Three here.
Mallory Moore is one of the smartest feminists I know. She’s a UK-based researcher with the Trans Safety Project. Her work focuses on tracking the spread of far-right talking points and conspiracy theories about “gender ideology.” Normally, when I speak with Moore, it’s in that capacity — she was, for example, a key source on this article, for which she helped me put American anti-trans legislation into its global context.
The conversation you’re about to read was conducted under more inglorious conditions. Over the past few years, and especially online, the Discourse has been riven with regular conflicts between transmasculine and transfeminine people. Trans mascs who are rightfully pissed about erasure often wind up blaming trans fems for not amplifying their concerns, and trans fems point out that it’s both transmisogynistic and just plain sexist to expect women to devote their organizing efforts to uplifting men. Meanwhile, younger trans people are increasingly likely to reject “feminism” as a useful framework for thinking about gender, due in part to the fact…
