The weird thing about the UK is that the liberals are much more transphobic.
In the US it's mostly just conservatives who obsessively hate trans people, with most US liberals falling somewhere between apathy/cowardice and being genuinely supportive. Thus the name "TERF island"
I'm told the reason that TERF Island is like that is that there was never an equivalent to the Combahee River Collective and other black feminists that forced American feminism to reckon with it's class position and become more intersectional. British feminism stayed mostly confined to the middle class and reflects the interests of the middle class.
I don't know to what extent, if any, that's true, but that's the explanation I've heard for why some strands of American feminism are relatively more inclusive and intersectional compared to British feminism.
The weird thing about the UK is that the liberals are much more transphobic.
In the US it's mostly just conservatives who obsessively hate trans people, with most US liberals falling somewhere between apathy/cowardice and being genuinely supportive. Thus the name "TERF island"
I'm told the reason that TERF Island is like that is that there was never an equivalent to the Combahee River Collective and other black feminists that forced American feminism to reckon with it's class position and become more intersectional. British feminism stayed mostly confined to the middle class and reflects the interests of the middle class.
I don't know to what extent, if any, that's true, but that's the explanation I've heard for why some strands of American feminism are relatively more inclusive and intersectional compared to British feminism.