Name/TitleSticker: Terf Island
About this objectSmall rectangular sticker produced by Let Women Speak (www.standingforwomen.com) featuring the words 'TERF ISLAND' across a Union flag design using green, white and purple colours.
MakerLet Women Speak
Date Madec.2023
Period2020s
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 50 x W: 70 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsGender Critical
Subject and Association Keywordsgender & sexuality
Subject and Association KeywordsFeminism, feminist movement
Subject and Association DescriptionThis sticker was one of a set posted on and around the main entrance to Glasgow Women's Library by Gender Critical activists in response to trans rights placards on display at an Open Archive event on Saturday 25th November 2023: https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/open-archive-protest-placards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_views_on_transgender_topics:
Feminist views on transgender topics vary widely. Third-wave feminists and fourth-wave feminists tend to view the struggle for trans rights as an integral part of intersectional feminism. Former president of the American National Organization for Women (NOW) Terry O'Neill has stated that the struggle against transphobia is a feminist issue, with NOW affirming that "trans women are women, trans girls are girls." Several studies have found that people who identify as feminists tend to be more accepting of trans people than those who do not. An ideology variously known as gender-critical feminism, or trans-exclusionary radical feminism, is critical of the concept of gender identity and various transgender rights, holding that biological sex characteristics are an immutable determination of gender or supersede the importance of gender identity: in other words that trans women are not meaningfully women, and trans men are not men. These views have been described as transphobic by many other feminists. Some authors, such as Julia Serano and Emi Koyama, have founded a stream within feminism called transfeminism, which views the struggle for the rights of trans people and trans women in particular as an integral part of the feminist struggle for all women's rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF_(acronym):
TERF (/tɜːrf/) is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. First recorded in 2008, the term TERF was originally used to distinguish transgender-inclusive feminists from a group of radical feminists and social conservatives who reject the position that trans women are women, including trans women in women's spaces, and transgender rights legislation. Trans-inclusive feminists assert that these ideas and positions are transphobic and discriminatory towards transgender people. The use of the term TERF has since broadened to include reference to people with trans-exclusionary views who are not necessarily involved with radical feminism. Though TERF was created to be a "deliberately technically neutral description", the term is now typically considered derogatory or disparaging. People labeled TERFs often reject the label, instead describing their beliefs as gender critical.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeSticker
Object numberGWL-2023-110-1
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved