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In recent years, the trans rights movement has made incredible strides in making the conversations around trans existence less taboo, and while the taps are not fully open for a steady stream of empathy to pour over, society at large, has become at least somewhat marginally more accepting of the trans experience than it was even a decade ago. However, that progress did not come without its drawbacks, and the most notable so far has been the rise of a reactionary movement under the umbrella of “Gender critical feminism”. Their goal so far seems to broaden the appeal of an essentialistic view of gender, wherein encroachments upon the existing model aren’t treated as rebellion against oppression maintained by systems of old, but rather an affront to the civil rights that past groups have so painstakingly sought to obtain.
That group puzzlingly happens to be led by women, and specifically of the white variety for good reason-of the many arguments backing a gender critical read of modern social theory, a common trait happens to be a hard-to-overlook lack of intersectionality. Issues are isolated from each other, class barely plays any role, and the racial dimensions of anti-trans bigotry — especially against trans women of color — are…
