University investigates feminist grad student for saying men can’t become women

2019-07-17T12:29:16+00:00

Love it when feminism turns on feminists.

tenchineuro · 2019-07-17T14:12:38+00:00

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University of California-Santa Barbara doctoral students, alumni and “allies” are demanding the administration take action against Laura Tanner, an outspoken critic of transgender ideology and doctoral candidate in its Department of Feminist Studies.Tanner’s Twitter feed is dominated by discussion of transgender ideology’s threat to women, including young lesbians. She believes that transgender women – biological males – are wrongly appropriating a female identity.Her header image bluntly declares: “A woman is someone with a female body and any personality … not a ‘female personality’ and any body. Any other definition is sexism.” School newspaper The Daily Nexus reprinted several of her tweets that it considered “transphobic.”

I don't think The Onion can compete against this.

What I don't understand is how the trans movement became so powerful that it eclipsed feminism, and how it became so powerful so quickly.

“To the students who have been harmed by transphobia and anti-sex worker rhetoric in our department, we are so sorry,” they wrote, citing a “graduate student’s transphobic and anti-sex work rhetoric and reported conduct as an instructor.”

They claimed the “gender binary … is rooted in the logics of colonialism, racism, and gendered domination”:

Feminist Studies is a field rooted in traditions of protest and political action. To the students who are troubled by all of this, we support your freedom of speech as it may manifest in awareness-raising, protest, etc and offer our collaboration in efforts to address transphobia and anti-sex worker sentiments on this campus.

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“[S]ome deleterious and hateful material has been presented in the [Feminist Studies] classroom and online targeting trans students,” the letter reads:

Material that denies the existence and lived experiences of trans people, especially trans women, is not only factually inaccurate but harmful to trans students. Such views are incompatible with the ethical responsibilities of Feminist Studies as a discipline, and should not be espoused by instructors, TAs, or in course material.

The department becomes complicit in “murders and hate crimes targeting trans people,” as well as their suicides, when it allows material “that denies the reality of trans people’s experiences or reifies gendered and sexed binaries as essential or real,” the letter continues. It has about 400 signatures as of Thursday night.

Wow, just wow. Hey, it looks like they do care about some few male suicides at least.

Laura Tanner is NOT qualified to be teaching here at UCSB. Seeing her transphobic comments on twitter proves it. I had her last quarter and she did not know half of the things we talked about and tried to bring her own struggles in when we spoke about poverty. Ma'am, youre white

— bad ass bitch bad attitude (@itskermeena) June 5, 2019

And to top it all off, she's white.

2019-07-18T01:31:16+00:00

I've long said it: it's when the witch-hunters themselves become hunted that we'll see some real change.

Party on, Garth!

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