{"id":27006,"date":"2015-10-26T22:26:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T02:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/feminist-germaine-greer-goes-on-anti-trans-rant-over-caitlyn-jenner\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T22:26:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T02:26:02","slug":"feminist-germaine-greer-goes-on-anti-trans-rant-over-caitlyn-jenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/feminist-germaine-greer-goes-on-anti-trans-rant-over-caitlyn-jenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Germaine Greer Goes on Anti-Trans Rant Over Caitlyn Jenner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Feminist Germaine Greer Goes on Anti-Trans Rant Over Caitlyn Jenner<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Prominent feminist Germaine Greer is being denounced for claiming that transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> &#8220;can&#8217;t be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>.&#8221; And in defending her original remarks, Greer has ignited long-simmering tensions between some self-proclaimed feminists and transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;an interview with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7B8Q6D4a6TM\" target=\"_blank\">BBC&rsquo;s <em>Newsnight<\/em><\/a> Friday, Greer reacted harshly to the news that Caitlyn Jenner would be named one of <em>Glamour<\/em> magazine&rsquo;s Women of the Year. While the magazine has not yet made an official announcement, Jenner and Reese Witherspoon are both rumored to be included in the December issue, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the tradition,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gossipcop.com\/caitlyn-jenner-glamour-woman-of-the-year-reese-witherspoon-women\" target=\"_blank\">according to <em>Gossip Cop<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think misogyny plays a really big part in all of this,&#8221; Greer told the BBC, &#8220;that a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> who goes to these lengths to become a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> will be a better <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> than someone who is just born a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When Greer&#8217;s BBC comments drew backlash, including a petition to have a scheduled lecture canceled, she responded to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/germaine-greer-defends-grossly-offensive-comments-about-transgender-women-just-because-you-lop-off-a6709061.html\" target=\"_blank\">fury both in the media and online<\/a>, with a statement laced with profanity:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Just because you lop off your <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">dick<\/a> and then wear a dress doesn&#8217;t make you a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">fucking<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>. I&rsquo;ve asked my doctor to give me long ears and liver spots and I&rsquo;m going to wear a brown coat but that won&rsquo;t turn me into a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">fucking<\/a> cocker spaniel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I do understand that some people are born intersex and they deserve support in coming to terms with their gender but it&rsquo;s not the same thing. A <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> who gets his <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">dick<\/a> chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Greer&#8217;s response made explicit the transphobia she unleashed in the&nbsp;<em>Newsnight <\/em>interview, where she suggested that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> are &ldquo;not <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>&rdquo; because, according to her, many people do not think that they &ldquo;look like, sound like, or behave like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She also repeated old criticism of Jenner&rsquo;s transition to womanhood, claiming that it is a media ploy designed to steal the spotlight from her ex-wife, daughters, and stepdaughters and their hit E! reality TV show&nbsp;<em>Keeping Up With the Kardashians.<\/em> Jenner flatly rejected that theory in a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/media\/2015\/04\/24\/bruce-jenner-tells-all-tonight\" target=\"_blank\">March interview<\/a>&nbsp;with ABC&#8217;s Diane Sawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Greer&rsquo;s comments are hardly her first public anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> statements. Her seminal 1999 book, <em>The Whole Woman<\/em>, denounced transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> as&nbsp;&#8220;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> who believe that they are <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> and have had themselves castrated,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2015\/01\/28\/germaine-greer-returns-to_n_6561232.html\"><em>The Huffington Post U.K.<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the native Australian academic, long a U.K. resident, suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2009\/aug\/20\/germaine-greer-caster-semenya\" target=\"_blank\">in a <em>Guardian<\/em> article<\/a> that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> were &ldquo;deluded&rdquo; for &ldquo;thinking&rdquo; they are <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/germaine-greer-not-invited-back-to-cambridge-university-after-appearing-to-deny-the-existence-of-10010405.html\" target=\"_blank\">a Cambridge University speech this year<\/a>, Greer insisted that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> do not deserve womanhood because they do not understand what it is like to possess what she called &ldquo;a big, hairy, smelly vagina.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even more worrisome&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/transgender\/2015\/07\/27\/these-are-trans-women-killed-so-far-us-2015\" target=\"_blank\">given the rise in anti-trans violence<\/a>, Greer went on to tell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2015\/01\/28\/germaine-greer-returns-to_n_6561232.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge students that transphobia does not exist<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But after Greer&#8217;s latest comments on <em>Newsnight,<\/em> the backlash has been swift and loud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/cardiff-university-do-not-host-germaine-greer\" target=\"_blank\">An online petition with 2,000-plus signatures<\/a> urged Cardiff University to revoke her invitation to speak at the school November 18 on the grounds that she spreads hate. In response, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/germaine-greer-will-not-give-cardiff-university-lecture-because-of-abuse-over-views-on-transgender-a6707236.html\" target=\"_blank\">Greer canceled her lecture,<\/a>&nbsp;reports <em>The Independent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transadvocate.com\/sex-essentialism-terfs-and-smelly-vaginas_n_14924.htm\" target=\"_blank\">trans advocates<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/theterfs.com\/2014\/05\/01\/judith-butler-addresses-terfs-and-the-work-of-sheila-jeffreys-and-janice-raymond\" target=\"_blank\">queer theorists<\/a> have counted Greer her among the top of so-called <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a>-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, along with figures such as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/feminism\/2015\/08\/27\/cathy-brennan-sues-afterellen-defamation\" target=\"_blank\">Cathy Brennan<\/a>, Sheila Jeffreys, and Janice Raymond.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether Greer considers herself radical is open to question, but she is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biographyonline.net\/writers\/germaine-greer.html\" target=\"_blank\">self-described feminist<\/a>. She addressed her beliefs March 8 during the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jzcs4ti_bdI\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;All About Women&rdquo; panel<\/a>&nbsp;at the Sydney Opera House:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been a liberation feminist. I&#8217;m not an equality feminist. I think that&#8217;s a profoundly conservative aim, and it wouldn&#8217;t change anything. It would just mean that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> were implicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Greer decries what she terms the misogyny behind Jenner&rsquo;s rise in the media, Greer&rsquo;s own anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> stance is reflective of <a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2014\/01\/transmisogyny\" target=\"_blank\">what advocates like Laura Kacere at <em>Everyday Feminism<\/em> call transmisogyny.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kacere used that word last year to describe &#8220;the confluence of &#8230; negative attitudes, expressed through cultural hate, individual and state violence, and discrimination directed toward <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> and gender non-conforming people on the feminine end of the gender spectrum.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Kacere:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Trans <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> experience a particular kind of sexist marginalization based in their unique position of overlapping oppressions &mdash; they are both <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> and feminine. They are devalued by society on both accounts. &#8230; &nbsp;Understanding transmisogyny is absolutely imperative to our work as feminists, and makes clear just how integral <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> issues and rights are to our work around gender.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch Greer&#8217;s original comments to the BBC about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-south-east-wales-34626450\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cleis Abeni<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/caitlyn-jenner\/2015\/10\/26\/feminist-germaine-greer-goes-anti-trans-rant-over-caitlyn-jenner\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.advocate.com\/caitlyn-jenner\/2015\/10\/26\/feminist-germaine-greer-goes-anti-trans-rant-over-caitlyn-jenner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feminist Germaine Greer Goes on Anti-Trans Rant Over Caitlyn Jenner Prominent feminist Germaine Greer is being denounced for claiming that transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> &#8220;can&#8217;t be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>.&#8221; And in defending her original remarks, Greer has ignited long-simmering tensions between some self-proclaimed feminists and transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>.&nbsp; In&nbsp;an interview with the&nbsp;BBC&rsquo;s Newsnight Friday, Greer reacted harshly to the news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/feminist-germaine-greer-goes-on-anti-trans-rant-over-caitlyn-jenner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feminist Germaine Greer Goes on Anti-Trans Rant Over Caitlyn Jenner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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