[RD] LGBTQ News II

[Cloud_Strife]

This is actually what terfs/gender criticals/ biological essentialists want, cis women are actually acceptable collateral to them

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Given that the vast majority of terfs are cis women, this seems unlikely.

 

[Lexicus]

Given that the vast majority of terfs are cis women, this seems unlikely.

I would put it slightly differently, many of the terfs in Britain seem to be more like TErfs, not really radical feminists in any coherent sense of that term, and much more interested in crusading against trans people than in things like female separatism or political lesbianism. As such, a lot of these anti-trans people seem to be deeply invested in bio-essentialist conceptions of gender that do ultimately harm cis women, despite many of them being cis women. And of course you have plenty of anti-trans people who are just bog-standard reactionaries and for whom cis women are not "collateral damage" but essentially also targets.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Maybe it's time for a new name then. TES. Although that might get confused with Skyrim.

 

[Evie]

We tried calling them feminism-appropriating radical transphobes, but they weren't onboard with the acronym.

 

[GenMarshall]

Given that the vast majority of terfs are cis women, this seems unlikely.

It seems to me a case of TERFs doing the classic “cutting off the nose to spite one’s face” moment.

 

[Cloud_Strife]

Given that the vast majority of terfs are cis women, this seems unlikely.

Well you might be right then, huh, it's not like cis women could ever police other cis women's appearances or anything

 

[choxorn]

I would put it slightly differently, many of the terfs in Britain seem to be more like TErfs, not really radical feminists in any coherent sense of that term, and much more interested in crusading against trans people than in things like female separatism or political lesbianism.

I mean... is that not generally true of the people we call TERF's everywhere? The term may have started out as a descriptor of a certain kind of radical feminist who took things like female separatism or political lesbianism to an extreme of excluding not just men but lots of women for not being "woman" enough for them, but it quickly evolved into "anyone who generally espouses progressive or feminist values, radical or otherwise, except they hate trans people and hide their bigotry in progressive-sounding language and try to make it sound like trans women being in women's spaces is a threat to cis women somehow"

And the vast majority of those types of people have always been more interested in hating trans people than in doing anything actually feminist or progressive.

 

[Lexicus]

I mean... is that not generally true of the people we call TERF's everywhere?

I've recently discovered actual TERFs who really are radical feminists on X, the everything app. I think the answer to your question is probably still yes, though, because I'd guess that the number of "actual" TERFs is quite small relative to the number of FARTs. To be clear of course I don't think their being "actual" radfems mitigates the TERF bigotry in any way, and from my admittedly somewhat limited observations of these radfems in general it seems like the trans-inclusive radfems are a lot less likely to take more problematic positions on other things (like for example calling women who aren't female separatists "degenerate whores").

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Well you might be right then, huh, it's not like cis women could ever police other cis women's appearances or anything

I was probably misunderstanding what the "this" was in your "this is what they want" statement. I was just saying that they probably don't "want" a general inconveniencing of cis women as a group, since they mostly are cis women.

 

[choxorn]

(like for example calling women who aren't female separatists "degenerate whores").

That moment when, in the name of radical feminism, you call women degenerate whores. Wow. Very Enlightened. Much Feminism. Really pushing against the patriarchy by insulting women for *checks notes* wanting to have relationships with men.

 

[Lexicus]

That moment when, in the name of radical feminism, you call women degenerate whores. Wow. Very Enlightened. Much Feminism. Really pushing against the patriarchy by insulting women for *checks notes* wanting to have relationships with men.

I mean, i don't agree with it, but it just isn't correct to define this stuff out of radical feminism. It's always been a strain within the broader radfem current, though again i wouldn't care to put numbers on it. Critique of women who have relations with men does follow from radical feminist premises, though of course such critique need not adopt the terminology of patriarchy (nor does it necessarily just consist of insults and slurs).

 

[Cloud_Strife]

I was probably misunderstanding what the "this" was in your "this is what they want" statement. I was just saying that they probably don't "want" a general inconveniencing of cis women as a group, since they mostly are cis women.

I don't know, terfs/gcs/these specific bigots seem, on some level, to be accepting of butch/more masc women being collateral

 

[danjuno]

Nebraska Republican mayor loses reelection after running anti-transgender ads ​

On Tuesday, Democrat John Ewing pulled off a surprise upset in Omaha’s mayoral race, defeating longtime Republican incumbent Jean Stothert 56–44 percent. Ewing’s victory makes him the first Black mayor in the city’s history—and delivers a sharp rebuke to anti-transgender campaign tactics. Stothert had blanketed airwaves and mailboxes with anti-trans ads, attempting to turn the race into a referendum on gender identity. But Nebraska Democrats didn’t flinch. Instead of distancing themselves, they doubled down—mocking Stothert’s messaging and pointing out the absurdity of making trans issues a centerpiece in a race fundamentally about roads, housing, and city governance. The outcome marks one of the first real-world tests of post-2024 anti-trans politics in a contested swing district—and this time, it backfired for Republicans.

In the final weeks of the campaign, Stothert’s team saturated Omaha’s airwaves with ads claiming that John Ewing “stands with radicals” on issues like “boys in girls’ bathrooms and sports.” The same message appeared across a flood of mailers citywide, part of a scorched-earth strategy that mirrored national trends. In the run-up to the 2024 election, more than $200 million was poured into anti-trans advertising nationwide, with many Republican candidates winning their race. But in Omaha, that strategy fell flat, signaling potential fatigue with transgender issues among swing voters.

Democrats didn’t sit back in the face of Stothert’s mailer blitz—they hit back hard. In the campaign’s final days, Nebraska Democrats launched their own countermessaging, mocking the incumbent’s fixation on culture war talking points. One viral image featured a bathroom stall with the tagline: “Jean’s focused on potties. John’s focused on fixing potholes.” The contrast was blunt, effective, and local.

After Ewing’s win, Nebraska State Sen. Megan Hunt summed up the result: “We need to understand this as a victory against trans hate and discrimination — it’s what otherwise moderate Mayor Jean Stothert made the entire end of her campaign about. Regular Americans don’t react to or receive the call to trans panic. Enough. We are speaking to the future.”

Ewing’s victory comes in a state that has been at the center of some of the most aggressive anti-transgender legislation in the country. Just two years ago, Nebraska made national headlines when Democrats staged a historic filibuster to protest a gender-affirming care ban. Though the bill ultimately passed, it only did so after weeks of gridlock that brought the legislature to a standstill. This year, Republicans returned with more—introducing bills targeting transgender athletes, bathroom access, and other flashpoints. Stothert seemed to believe she could ride that same wave of culture war politics into another term as mayor. That bet backfired—and in resounding fashion.

Heading into 2026, Omaha won’t just be celebrating its first Black mayor—it’ll also be a battleground in one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican who’s made anti-trans rhetoric a centerpiece of his platform, will be fighting for reelection. He’s railed against the Equality Act, warning it would “allow men in women’s sports”—a line ripped straight from the same playbook that just collapsed under Jean Stothert. If Bacon was planning to run that strategy again, Tuesday’s results should give him serious pause. Omaha voters just sent a clear message: the era of winning elections by punching at transgender people may be coming to an end.

Good to one of these jerks get what's coming to them.

 

[Arakhor]

Yet he's considered a "moderate" Republican and, three years ago, he voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, which made same-sex marriage federal law. People contain multitudes, huh?

 

[danjuno]

With any luck he'll follow the Mayor out the Stothert.

 

[IglooDame]

From the article:

Utah‘s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth was meant to be a moratorium, giving lawmakers the chance to reevaluate the policy once experts reviewed research on the impacts of treatment.

This week, nearly 2½ years after the law took effect, lawmakers received the findings of that study.

Utah health care experts concluded, in a more than 1,000-page report, “Overall, there were positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes” as a result of gender-affirming care. But some Republican legislators are already dismissing those findings.

Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?

The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?

www.sltrib.com

 

[Arakhor]

To paraphrase an old quotation, "if the evidence is against you, talk about the law, and, if the law and the evidence are both against you, then just ignore it and pretend no one said anything."