"Radical feminists" doesn't like traditional gender roles, but rather aim to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts. They see the global class of men as oppressing the global class of women, the norm of every society all over the earth. It's a radical view that's been around since the 1960's.
But it's not radical enough for some, who go beyond that to claim that a person can change their sex/gender to the other one. They then denounce the radical feminists who refuse to go that far. A new term was invented for those people: TERF, "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist."
It could even mean anybody who understands that gender/sex is a material reality grounded in biological fact. That would certainly cover most of us, feminist or not. Count me in.
This writer calls herself an angry feminist with thoroughly leftist values. But apparently there's a limit in how far to the left she can go, so she identifies as a TERF.
from Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR)
(cont'd tomorrow)
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