To be so-called gender critical while leaving traditional biology intact tightens rather than loosens the hold of a gender system on our bodies. —Sara Ahmed

Trans exclusionary radical feminism rejects the assertion that trans women are women, supports exclusion of trans women from women's spaces, and opposes transgender rights.

Quotes

• There are some who hold onto rigid ideas of biological sex, but I do not expect feminists to be among them. When I hear people refer in code to “biology 101,” meaning the scientific basis of female and male sex difference, to claim that trans women are not “biologically women,” I want to offer in rebuke, “Biology 101? Patriarchy wrote that textbook!” and pass them a copy of Andrea Dworkin’s Woman Hating, a radical feminist text that supports transsexuals having access to surgery and hormones and challenges what she calls “the traditional biology of sexual difference” based on “two discrete biological sexes.” To be so-called gender critical while leaving traditional biology intact tightens rather than loosens the hold of a gender system on our bodies.
  • Sara Ahmed, "An Affinity of Hammers," Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 3, Numbers 1–2, May 2016, p. 30

• “To certain groups, the fact that women and girls are female and that men cannot be women, girls, mothers or lesbians, is considered hateful,” Ellingsen told Reduxx, adding that the police are investigating her for “for campaigning for women’s rights.”
  • Paul Joseph Watson, Norwegian Feminist Faces Three Years in Prison For Saying Biological Men Can’t Be Lesbians, Summit News, 6 June 2022

See also

• Transphobia

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