Strange Bedfellows

Anti-trans Feminists, VOX Supporters and Biologicist Academics

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ID2504641
AuthorsLucas R Platero, Lucas Platero (0000-0002-7196-6983, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume10
Issue2
Publication date2023-12-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiGeSt Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2593-0273 • E-ISSN: 2593-0281
PublisherGhent University (PUBLISHER • BE)
DOI10.21825/digest.89997
OpenAlexW4389193309
LanguageEN
Citations received13

In 2015 and 2016, Professor Esther Mayoko Arjonilla and I wrote two articles that demonstrated the absence of major conflicts between feminist and trans movements in Spain. We explained that since the democratic transition of the 1970s, Spanish feminism had been strongly committed to the sexual and reproductive rights of 'women', an inclusive category. This also applied to lesbians, though not without some internal struggles to claim that space (Pineda 2008). We hypothesized that lesbian feminist groups had been the necessary allies for the inclusion of trans women, often based on factors like personal friendship ties, and their leadership in addressing sexual rights (Platero & Arjonilla, 2015). Another key element was the overlap between the two movements in the feminist critique of the pathologization of women, in consonance with critiques of the psychopathologization of trans women

Democracy · Element (criminal law · Feminism · Feminist movement · Friendship · Inclusion (mineral · Lesbian · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Gender and Feminist Studies · Gender Studies · Law

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