04. Women's Identity; Defining "Woman." Biologically Female. Gender Critical Theory.

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4.  Women’s Identity; Defining "Woman."  Biologically Female.  Gender Critical Theory

4w
“… a platform [for] today’s feminists… to speak against gender identity and male violence…”
https://4w.pub

Culturally Bound Gender 
“Gender identity as culturally bound phenomenon”    
https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com

 Feminists in Struggle [FIST]
“... a national female-only radical feminist network, democratically run, and composed of individuals born female and affiliated female-only feminist organizations.”
https://feministstruggle.org
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpBLuqA8NhNVctRXzOXOVmA

You can be killed for just being female. 
― JoeAnn Hart, Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race,
and Feminism in the 1970s

The Gender Critical [UK]
“…working to build an ecosystem for gender critical activism”
https://gcritical.org

Gender Critical Blogspot 
“GenderCrit Now” “A collection of blogs of interest to readers who are critical of social sex-roles.”
http://gendercritical.blogspot.com

Gender Critical Woman
“Examining Gender Identity ideology and its impact on Women's Sex based rights and Gay Rights. Exploring how this has taken such firm root in Western societies (Cognitive & Regulatory Capture).”
https://gendercriticalwoman.com/
https://www.facebook.com/letwomenspeak

Gender Critical Woman Blog
“@STILLTish.  Gender Abolition. Examining gender identity ideology..).”
https://gendercriticalwoman.blog

Gender Dysphoria Alliance Canada
“For a more evidence-based, less ideological conversation about gender dysphoria”
https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com

Graham Linehan
The Glinner Update
“... fighting for women’s rights…”
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com

Project Nettie 
“Project Nettie: scientists supporting biological sex.”    
https://projectnettie.wordpress.com/

Sex Matters [UK]
“Sex matters in life and in law.  It shouldn’t take courage to say so.”
https://sex-matters.org

TERF Collective
“A syndicate of GCs and RadFems working to end the international campaign of female erasure.”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/terfcollective
https://twitter.com/TERFCollective

Women Are Human
“Gender identity for the mainstream”
https://www.womenarehuman.com/

Women’s Bill of Rights
“We know what a woman is, what a female is, and what a mother is. Our politicians and our laws should too.
Radical gender ideologues are trying to redefine womanhood as a subjective state unrelated to biology. This isn’t just about semantics. This limits our opportunities and threatens our privacy and our safety.
          "Help codify our common understanding of basic sex-based words.’
https://womensbillofrights.com
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensBillofRights

 To be a woman, no matter your background, is to have to fight for your territory in a way that men don’t have to.
― Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists
 

 

American Committee for the Weizman Institute of Science.     “Researchers identify 6,500 genes that expressed differently in men and women.”  [2017] 
https://archive.ph/P0TGC

Alessandra Asteriti.  “How I became the queen of Italian TERFs.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/bGsKw

Jennifer Bilek. “Beth Brooke-Marciniak: Promoting ‘inclusivity’ at the expense of women’s rights.”  [2020] 
https://archive.ph/MEAjj

_____.  “Janice Raymond: The original Terf: despite decades of abuse, she refuses to be silent.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/ktBGZ

Heather Brunskell-Evans, Ph.D.  “Immaterial girls: A critical review of Kathleen Stock’s Material Girls.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/tiDLM

Petra Bueskens.  “Guilt by association.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/TuLlZ

Kara Dansky.   “Another legal win in the US.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/Ftr2J

Sarah Ditum.  “The tragedy of becoming a woman: GIDS [Gender Identity Development Service] told girls they needed a cure for femaleness .” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/F788c

_____.   Who loses when trans women win? The trans debate is harming intersex people like Caster Semenya.”
https://archive.ph/Ed27E#selection-441.0-445.63

Feministwriter.  “On Pride and shame.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/SKjbB

Genevieve Gluck. “‘No conflict, they said’ — An interview with Holly-Lawford Smith.” [2021]  
https://archive.ph/6WIY5

Mary Harrington.  “So you want to be a mermaid?: As the fairy tale taught us, switching identity rarely has a happy ending.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/XcwTi

Rose Kay.  “My body will never be erased: The oppression of women is based entirely on our biology.”  [2021]
https://archive.ph/fMkxg

Holly Lawford-Smith.  “The end of gender… identity.”  [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/k6W2L

Audre Lorde.  “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”   [1984]
https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lorde_The_M…

Lawrence S. Mayer, M.B., M.S., Ph.D. Paul R. McHugh, M.D. “Sexuality and gender: Findings from the biological, psychological, and social sciences.” [2016]

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/sexuality-and-gender

 They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.” 
― Patricia Duncker

 

Jenny McCartney. “Women are being erased: ‘Progressive’ agenda has become surreal and poisonous.”  [2021]
https://archive.ph/erjgj

Meghan Murphy. “Gender identity: What does it mean for society, the law, and women--a talk by Meghan Murphy.” [2019] 
https://archive.ph/UIGP9

Tyler O’Neil. “First lesbian reinstated to U.S. Army comes out against transgender 'erasure of women'.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/wip/qG4ZU

Nina Paley. “Gender colonialism: How womanhood is being occupied by men.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/ZsJyc

Raquel Rosario Sanchez. “If ‘white feminism’ is a thing, gender identity ideology epitomizes it.” [2017]
https://archive.ph/LNCZd 

Fred Roth.  “Gender critical profiles.” [2021]  RECOMMENDED

https://archive.ph/wip/TeE08 

Alondra Ruiz.  “How feminism got hijacked: The movement that once declared ‘I am woman, hear me roar’ can no longer define what a woman is. What happened?.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/CYTLj

Lionel Shriver.  “Children can’t be experts on themselves: Character is created over a lifetime, not discovered whole.”  [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/18KHi

Kathleen Stock.  “Doing better in arguments about sex, gender and trans rights: Radical feminist and gender-critical philosophers challenge their opponents to avoid some obviously bad argumentative moves.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/1UfUY

_____. “The importance of referring to human sex in language.” [2022]
https://lcp.law.duke.edu/article/the-importance-of-referring-to-human-sex-in-language-stock-vol85-iss1/

_____. “The problem with ‘trans women are women.”  [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/kgNnM

Matt Taibbi.  “Meet the censored: Kara Dansky: The feminist author of The Abolition of Sex has become the ultimate example of a new propaganda phenomenon, which denounces leftists as right-wing when they say unpopular things.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/lWWP8

_____.  “On the blowback to ‘What is a woman?’ and the difference between a debate and bigotry.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/fu7M6

Peg Tittle.  “Sterilization: The personal and the political.”  [2023]
https://archive.ph/emMzY         

Washington Examiner. “Make transgender ideology expensive.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/QHVtq

WhatWouldYouSay.org “Transgenderism depends on stereotypes.” [2021]    
https://archive.ph/touL4

WND [WorldNetDaily].  “University relents--debate on transgenderism will now include BOTH sides: Original plan required everyone to support 'gender-diverse identities'.” [2020]       
https://archive.ph/wip/wdxc4

 

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. 
― Warsan Shire

 

British Broadcasting Services [BBC]. “Germaine Greer: Transgender women are 'not women'.”  [2015]  VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B8Q6D4a6TM&t=36s

_____. “Nolan investigates: Stonewall.”  [2021] VIDEO
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09yjp0d

Amala Ekpunobi.  “A gender theory ‘debate" with an evolutionary biologist: 9/30/2022.”
https://www.prageru.com/video/a-gender-theory-debate-with-an-evolutionary-biologist-9-30-2022

Zach Eliot.  “Sex and gender.” [2020] VIDEO
https://archive.ph/wip/qDqHC

Good Morning Britain.  “Does gender self-identification put women at risk?” [2018] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqA6-Q-hWw

Helen Heaton.  “Critically examining the doctrine of gender identity.” [2016]  
VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVNxYkawao

The Institute of Art and Ideas.  “Kathleen Stock: The new politics of gender identity.” [2023]  VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhndRR4vF0

Bill Maher.  “Real Time with Bill Maher. New rule: Along for the pride.”  [2022] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMBzfUj5zsg

Douglas Murray.  “The incoherence of LGBTQI+’.” [2022]  VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXOxWvjGrl

Queering the Patriarchy.  "Kara Dansky on Tucker [Carlson] — Abolition of sex: how the transgender agenda harms women & girls [1/5] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnn2KhXAtA

Dr. Debra Soh.  “Debunking Myths of a Gender Spectrum.”  [2020]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu8amCC4_wk

Blaire White Project.  “Debunking insane woke lies about gender w/ Dr. Debra Soh.” [2022?] VIDEO
https://archive.ph/wip/2Q3aH

Women’s Liberation Front.  “Fighting the new misogyny: A feminist critique of gender identity.” [2020]  Panel discussion at the Seattle Public Library, 2.1.2020. VIDEO
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=300729984218207

A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding. 
― Sheng Wang

 

Ruth Barrett.  Female erasure: What you need to know about gender politics' war on women, the female sex and human rights.[2016]     BOOK     
https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/search/site/Ruth%20Barrett
          
RADIO
          https://archive.org/details/FemaleErasureBarrett.BR.8.26.16
          ONLINE
          https://archive.org/details/FemaleErasureBarrett.BR.8.26.16

Julie Bindel.  Feminism for women: The real route to liberation.  [2020]     BOOK
https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9781472132628 

Heather Brunskell-Evans, Ph.D.  Transgender body politics.  [2021]   BOOK
http://www.heather-brunskell-evans.co.uk/books

Kara Dansky. The abolition of sex:  How the transgender agenda harms women and girls.  [2021]  BOOK
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-abolition-of-sex-kara-dansky/1140515873?ean=9781637582299 

Caroline Hooten.  T: The story of testosterone: The hormone that dominates and divides us. [2022]  ONLINE BOOK
https://archive.org/details/carole-hooven-t-the-story-of-testosterone-the-hormone-that-dominates-and-divides

Sheila Jeffreys.  Gender hurts. [2014]  BOOK
http://sheila-jeffreys.com/book/gender-hurts/

Helen Joyce.  Trans: When ideology meets reality.  [2021]  BOOK
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Trans/Helen-Joyce/9780861540495

Vivian B. Pender, ed..  The status of women: Violence, identity and activism.  [2017]  BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/QCcR7
          About Vivian Pender
         https://archive.ph/wip/YELTj

Janice G. Raymond, Ph.D.  Doublethink: A feminist challenge to transgenderism.  [2021]  BOOK https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9781925950380 

Gina Rippon.  Gender and our brains: How new neuroscience explodes the myths of the male and female minds.  [2019] BOOK
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558415/gender-and-our-brains-b…

Isadora Sanger. Born in the Right Body: Gender identity ideology from a medical and feminist perspective. [2021] BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/C6L5w

Debra Soh, Ph.D.  The end of gender: Debunking the myths about sex and identity in our society.  [2020]  BOOK
https://www.drdebrasoh.com/book
          
(Critique)    Holly Lawford-Smith.  “The end of gender… identity.”  [2020]
          
https://archive.ph/wip/k6W2L


Misogyny insists that a woman's appearance is of paramount value. 

― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

 

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