Judith butler terf1/22/2024 ‘TERF’ is ‘widely recognised as a misogynist slur’.Beth Johnson and Jennifer MacKinnon both complained the use of the term ‘TERF’ breached the discrimination and denigration standard. So I'm sorry if some people are offended, but I'm quite sure that the offence done to people who hold this position is nowhere near as profound or as debilitating as the offence done to transgender people. And I think turfing and excluding actually work well, poetically. You, you lock them away or you exclude them. But also, I think – TERF, TERF is a term which, you know, when you turf somebody, you put them out of play, you put them on a shelf, you, you take them out of the public domain. I think there are other strains of radical feminism that they don't represent, so let's keep in mind, as you suggested, that the history of feminism is complex and can, and takes on a lot of different meanings. They do represent one strain of radical feminism. Judith Butler: Disgusting? Well, you know, I think that, you know, I mean, trans exclusionary, radical feminist is a description. Kim Hill: I have received a text which tells me that calling women TERFs, trans exclusionary, radical feminists, is disgusting. I presume they are, but they would say that there's something irreducible about biological difference and that those who seek to dispute its meaning or its centrality are, are deeply mistaken. Maybe they are feminists enough to say that those are zones of freedom that should be safeguarded. Judith Butler: …the feminists who oppose transgender as a phenomenon and transgender rights more broadly are arguing that it does make a difference what your biology is…They may not say that your biology decides what kind of job you take or what kind of person you love, what the gender of the person you love. Ms Hill and Professor Butler discussed the term ‘TERF’ (pronounced ‘turf’) including as follows: Judith Butler is regarded as revolutionising attitudes towards gender with a book she published in 1990 called Gender Trouble, which, amongst other things, introduced the idea of gender as performance. Now, the argument is raging now around trans rights…The debate about who can be classified as a woman has become a shouting match between transgender activists and some feminists or ‘TERFs’ – trans exclusionary radical feminists. And it's used, the term gender ideology, by the opponents of that theory, who tend to proclaim that boys are boys, girls are girls, it's biological. It sounds threatening, of course, and it's become a shorthand descriptor for the theory that gender is socially constructed, rather than biologically determined. The term ‘gender ideology’ has sparked fury in many countries. Kim Hill interviewed American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler on Saturday Morning on 17 October 2020 on RNZ National. Not Upheld: Discrimination and Denigration The Authority found the broadcast was not discriminatory towards women and the term ‘TERF’ was used as part of a discussion of the debate and the expression of legitimately held opinion. The interview discussed ‘the debate about who can be classified as a woman’ and used the term ‘TERF’, an acronym meaning trans exclusionary radical feminist, to describe those ‘who oppose transgender as a phenomenon and transgender rights more broadly’, particularly through excluding trans people from women-only spaces. The Authority has not upheld two complaints regarding an interview of American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler by Kim Hill. Timebands & Classification Review (Closed).Broadcasting Code Review Consultation (Closed). ![]() ![]() Election Programmes Code of Broadcasting Practice Review Consultation (Closed).Guidance: Children’s rights and broadcasting.Guidance: BSA power to decline to determine a complaint.Complaints that are unlikely to succeed.
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