Episode 4: Sister Raymond's Transmisogyny Bible. Raymond's 'The Transsexual Empire'
Added 2025-09-26 11:28:59 +0000 UTCToday, Talia and Emma dissect The Transsexual Empire, a foundational text for the modern gender-critical movement. They discuss the history of radical lesbian feminism, the embattled discourse over trans women's place in it, and the way trans-exclusionary 'radfems' codified a feminist pretext for rank bigotry.
Sources:
Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (don't buy it; don't read it, but if you do, you know where to not buy it)
Finn Enke, Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Towards a Less Plausible History: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-abstract/5/1/9/133890/Collective-Memory-and-the-Transfeminist
Sandy Stone, The 'Empire' Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto: https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/trans-manifesto.pdf
Ky Schevers, Statement About Lane Lloyd: https://kyschevers.medium.com/statement-about-lane-lloyd-1f8d4d67137b
Comments
Thank you Talia and Emma, you're wonderful
MofoJojo
2025-09-28 09:07:50 +0000 UTCCatholic ontology and sex essentialism (and the entire fucking edifice of disgust/the ick) is what they’ve got and they’re incredibly successful at bludgeoning us with it.
Jade Diaz
2025-09-27 20:30:48 +0000 UTC
