WDI Co-Author Doesn’t Support Dressing However You Like
In which Sheila Jeffreys says you can’t really wear what you like & there might be nothing wrong with being a transphobe
2019 saw the release of the anti-transgender “Declaration of Women’s Sex-Based Rights,” co-authored by several women including Sheila Jeffreys. Despite its central objection to the concept of “gender identity,” the Declaration purports to allow exactly one right that is of interest to trans people: “the right of individuals to dress and present themselves as they choose.”
It is worth pointing out, then, that Sheila Jeffreys in fact does not believe even in this. One place to learn about this is her half-hour talk, “Womanface: The Insult of Transgenderism” (February 14, 2022). She doesn’t discuss or acknowledge the existence of trans men in this talk, by the way. She is only picking on trans women.
“I think we need to move on to the next stage in our struggle against transgenderism,” she begins. “That is, moving beyond confronting individual challenges such as men entering women’s spaces, sports, and opportunities, to opposing the idea…
