Julie Bindel's dangerous transphobia
Guardian UK
01 February, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/julie-bindel-transphobia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/julie-bindel-transphobia)
I don't much care for Julie Bindel, unlike Beatrix Campbell, who defended her on this site yesterday. That does not mean I don't admire her. As a feminist whose radicalism would probably surprise her, I appreciate Ms Bindel's advocacy and the genuine good that has come for her work against violence directed at women. Yet in her long, lonely crusade against transsexuals she contradicts three of her own three feminist principles:
1) Gender is a social construct and malleable – unless you try to change yours.