Updating the Gender Recognition Act: trans oppression, moral panics and implications for social work

Miles, Laura Saetveit

doi:10.1332/204986018x15199226335105

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“…Additionally, debate around intersectionality is sometimes understood by the media and feminists themselves in generational terms, with intersectionality animating 'young' feminists which 'older' feminists are said to have overlooked (Munro, 2013). Trans-inclusion has taken particular prominence as an axis of intersectionality with moves to allow people to self-identify their gender in many countries accompanied by a highly publicised conflict around trans-inclusion within feminism (Miles, 2018). Yet, how intersectionality is taken up in grassroots feminist movements, as well as how far such movements effectively challenge hegemonic norms of gender identity, race, class or age, remains understudied.…”

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Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left

Morrison

2020

Social Movement Studies

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Over the past ten years the concept of intersectionality has become increasingly popular in feminist activism. Yet, how intersectionality is used within grassroots movements remains understudied. This article explores intersectionality in feminism within the radical left using a case study of the 2014 Scottish independence movement.The article draws on analysis of 37 semi-structured interviews carried out during the referendum campaign of 2014. Building on black feminist critiques, I highlight that intersectionality is taken up in ways that reproduce rather than tackle hegemonic norms of gender identity, race, class and age. I trace a disjuncture between interviewee claims to be intersectional and simultaneous perceptions of multi-dimensional marginalisations.I explore interviewee discussion of trans-inclusion as illustrative of how axes of intersectionality can be mobilised in ways that sustain hegemonic norms. Interviewees tended to legitimise their claims to intersectionality through invoking the trope of the 'TERF' -trans-exclusionary radical feminist -as a symbol of a selectively defined second-wave feminism elided with radical feminism. This invocation paradoxically reproduced marginalisations of race, class and even gender identity itself.

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Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left

Morrison

2020

Social Movement Studies

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“…This included discrimination and transphobia in schools, social services, the National Health Service (NHS), prisons and probation services, and the police. A subsequent rapid evidence review and limited empirical work (Hudson-Sharpe, 2018) practitioners with particular expertise in LGBQ and/or TNB equality have also been noted (Miles, 2018).…”

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Trans and nonbinary parenting

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Manning³

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Social Work and Health Care Practice With Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities

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“…Like many social workers, I have felt deeply distressed by the growth of rightwing extremism visible in the vicious campaigns against abortion rights in the US and elsewhere (Lavalette et al, 2022), the attacks against rights for transgender and non-binary people (Kant & Boskey, 2022;Miles, 2018), and the extremist opposition to public health measures everywhere over the last two years of the Covid-19 pandemic (Beddoe, 2022). This book contributes to a greater sense of understanding of how the dynamics of populism work and intensifies my belief that social work must make a very strong stand against these threats to human rights.…”

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