Sheila Jeffreys

Sheila Jeffreys is a radical feminist author, teacher, and activist. This page is not run by Sheila Jeffreys.

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"There's an increasing groundswell of criticism of the concept & practice of transgenderism from an invigorated radical feminist movement."

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"The 'gender' belief system [...] forms the justification and sorting system for women's subordination." - Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts

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"Through eroticizing our subordination in the name of 'sexual liberation,' they [liberals] shore up the foundations of male supremacy."

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"We know what's at work when whites wear blackface; the same thing is at work when men wear drag." -Robin Morgan, quoted in #genderhurts

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"...the medical profession has indirectly tamed and transformed a potential wildcat strike at the gender factory." #genderhurts

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"Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens." #genderhurts

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"When states protect 'gender' in legislation [...] the mechanism, which orders the sex caste system, becomes a matter of state."#genderhurts

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"Radical feminism considers gender as a sorting system for male domination, providing the bars of the cage that imprison women" #genderhurts

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"..The medical profession has indirectly tamed and transformed a potential wildcat strike at the gender factory." Billings and Urban

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"We know what's at work when whites wear blackface; the same thing is at work when men wear drag." - Robin Morgan, quoted in #genderhurts

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"Jeffreys counters misogynistic threats with reason. Even those who disagree with her must recognize that as an act of courage"-Robin Morgan

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"Women's experience does not resemble that of men who adopt the 'gender identity' of being female or women in any respect." #genderhurts

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"The idea of 'gender identity' disappears biology & all the experiences we have of being reared in a caste system based on sex" #genderhurts

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"Claims to the 'right' to self define 'gender' subject womanhood to men's power to define it again." #genderhurts

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"The sex caste status of women is assigned with reference to biology and enforced via rape, impregnation, forced childbearing." #genderhurts

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Use the hashtag #genderhurts when you post news stories, articles, and other media containing examples of the ways gender hurts.