2020s anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom

The 2020s anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom is a movement opposing rights of transwomen and defending the existing rights of biological (or natal) women. A distinction is made between individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria and the advocacy of gender self-id; the controversy in the UK is over the second issue. Those opposed to gender self-id are commonly derogatively described as being TERFs, or more formally trans-exclusionary radical feminists.

Quotes

• Indeed, many of the demands made by trans activists harm lesbian and gay rights.
  • Julie Bindel "It's dangerous to conflate the gay and trans rights struggles" The Telegraph (20 January 2023)

• A lot of people are scared to speak up because they hate to be called transphobic or bigoted, but it’s not transphobic to stick up [for] a woman.
  • Oli London, quoted in "‘Christians Are Under Attack’: Detransitioner Oli London Sounds Alarm on ‘Erosion of Free Speech’ After Alleged Riley Gaines Assault" Faith Wire (21 April 2021)

• Imperial Britain imposed policies to enforce heterosexuality and the gender binary, while simultaneously constructing the racial “other” as not only fundamentally different, but freighted with sexual menace; from there, it’s not a big leap to see sexual menace in any sort of “other,” and “biological realities” as essential and immutable.
  • Sophie Lewis "How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans" The New York Times (7 February 2019)

• Everyone has a duty to sever the links between the LGB and the T... the backlash will not spare those that saw this coming and tried to save the LGB kids.
  • Posie Parker, as cited in "Posie Parker temporarily banned from YouTube for hate speech violation" Pink News (20 May 2023)

• Merry Terfmas 😘
  • J.K. Rowling, quoted in "J.K. Rowling Lambasted for 'Merry Terfmas' Tweet" Advocate (19 December 2022)

See also

• Transphobia
• 2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States

External links

• "What does transgender mean and what does the law say?", BBC News (18 January 2024).