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You can't smash patriarchy with transphobia

It is time to end the tolerance of transphobia in radical feminist circles, argues Ray Filar

Ray Filar, 3 September 2011|Retrieved from the Internet on September 16,2011 bySJ

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"
Simone de Beauvoir



http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/09/radical_feminism_transphobia

Common to all strands of radical feminism is the belief that we live in a patriarchy, a male supremacist society in which a primary oppression is of women by men. What distinguishes radical feminism - what gives it its strength, its passion, its edge - is the further claim that more than women's full participation in the system devised by men is needed for liberation. Radical feminists argue that what we need is a fundamental restructuring of society from thought upwards. If I had a hammer, I'd smash patriarchy; you know the drill.