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We fought so people could express themselves, says gender scholar . Now they do. Transphobia is surging through the United States with a record-setting number of anti-transgender legislative bills, many of which pit vulnerable communities against one another. Proponents of a bill in Tennessee, for example, say that allowing trans children to participate in youth athletics would "destroy women's sports," casting cisgender women as the victims in a disingenuous claim to a feminist politics. Others attempt to exploit divides in the LGBTQ community. Leaders of the British group LGB Alliance warn that lesbians are "going to become extinct" as individuals increasingly identify as trans, a fear echoed both by trans-exclusionary groups and by lesbian feminists who in other ways advocate for trans rights. Feminist writer Aimee Anderson frets about "the extinction of an entire people," and Cherríe Moraga worries that butch lesbians, self-actualizing as transmasculine, might "become a dying breed." Tomboys, too, have become a point of contention, seen by some as a "rarer and rarer species" that is "going extinct" as more tomboyish children identify as trans and/or nonbinary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
