![]() ![]() If this TERF discourse on abortion rights feels a bit confused and cognitively dissonant to you, it’s because it is. “Many will disagree,” Freeman writes, “but I find it hard to separate the disintegration of a woman’s right to bodily autonomy in America from the rise of gender ideology and the focus, as Planned Parenthood would put it, on trans and non-binary people.” Instead, she blames trans people and their political allies. Having offered this lament, Freeman might have proceeded to a thundering denunciation of the conservative movement whose raison d’etre for nearly 50 years has been demolishing the constitutional foundation of abortion rights. Writing for UnHerd, a British online news magazine that claims to give voice to the voiceless but, in fact, platforms the already consummately platformed, Freeman expresses her dread at “how close American women are to losing their autonomy” and returning to the dark days before abortion was safe and legal. Perhaps the most remarkable TERF reaction to the leaked Dobbs opinion so far has come from Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman. ![]() When the government controls that decision for her, she is being treated less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.” “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity,” WoLF declared via RBG meme “It is a decision she must make for herself. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission opposing the extension of Title VII sex-discrimination protections to trans people, interrupted their usual rhythm of tweets demonizing transwomen as rapists and child murderers to share a quote from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about the importance of bodily autonomy and reproductive choice. For example, on the day after Politico broke the Dobbs story, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), an anti-trans feminist group best known for filing an amicus brief in R.G. Jackson Women’s Health Organization hit the internet earlier this month signaling the imminent end of abortion rightsin the United States, a group of feminists known as Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) on account of their belief that trans women should be excluded from the category of women had thoughts. When the Supreme Court’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. ![]()
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