locke besse
1 min readSep 18, 2022

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You were highly critical of the main stream media that labeled gender critical feminists as being right wing. I agree with them not you.

From your article: “gender critical feminism is basically an exercise in applying the critical theory worldview to the issue of gender, which means it is far left by definition. Not everything that is anti-trans is right wing (or vice versa)! Frankly, I am fed up with the main stream media‘s mischaracterization of things and I really don’t know if it is due to incompetence or dishonesty.“

To apply the critical theory worldview to the issue of gender is not far left by definition as you state. It is an extreme right wing ideology. On this I must disagree. If it were a far left ideology as you maintain a more likely attitude would be to insist that all non-op and pre-op trans women should be able to go anyplace a cis woman can including private spaces. That would be the radical left position. The attitude of the general critical women, more specifically TERFs, is reactionary. Their attitude toward feminism may be liberal or left wing, but their attitude towards gender is reactionary. You confuse the two in my opinion. I think you could’ve phrased it better, especially since you were criticizing the main stream press. Words matter.

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locke besse
locke besse

Written by locke besse

Eclectic trans woman, terminally curious. Too many degrees. Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Attract stray puppies and social outcasts

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