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In 2024, the anti-feminist right prefers to at least claim to have women’s equality at heart. By allying with transphobic feminists, they can have their cake and eat it too: avow support for women and still police them

writer Asa Seresin has put it, “the commitment to misery, to being a ‘bloody difficult woman’” (notably by mocking and blocking others’ attempts at self-actualization) supports stubborn anti-trans prejudice. To reinvent one’s gender identity is, for TERFs, a form of greedy individualism that holds so-called ordinary women in contempt

For the twenty-first-century feminist who has never heard of this schismatic moment and has perhaps swallowed the narrative that transphobia and biological essentialism were intrinsic to feminism’s Second Wave, reading the movement magazine the Lesbian Tide is an education