Denise C, the founder of FourthWaveNow, corresponded with detransitioned radical feminists before she started her Tumblr and WordPress blogs. This correspondence took place between December 26th-27th 2014. Denise started her blogs in March of 2015. Below are emails between Denise and Devorah Zahav, the detrans woman who blogs as Redress Alert. Zahav is a very… Continue reading Early Correspondence Between A Detrans Radical Feminist and the Founder of FourthWaveNow
Tag: detrans narratives
Telling the Whole Story: A Closer Look at the Detrans Women in When Children Say They’re Transgender
Orginally posted on Health Liberation Now! Many articles about detransitioning present an incomplete and misleading view of the detrans community by failing to address the beliefs and politics of its members. An example of this is Jesse Singal’s Atlantic article When Children Say They’re Transgender which features three detrans women, Max Robinson, Carey Callahan, and… Continue reading Telling the Whole Story: A Closer Look at the Detrans Women in When Children Say They’re Transgender
The Reality Behind the Story I Told: What My Life was Like When I was Interviewed for the Stranger
Back when I was still a detrans woman, I was interviewed a few times by journalists for articles on detransitioning. The article that drew the most attention and the strongest reactions from people was a piece written by Katie Herzog that appeared in The Stranger. Many trans people and their allies found the article offensive… Continue reading The Reality Behind the Story I Told: What My Life was Like When I was Interviewed for the Stranger
Confessions of a Former “Crypto-TERF”
Originally published on Medium on 1/17/21 I’m disturbed by many of my past actions as a detrans radical feminist. I said and did things that I now find very harmful and unethical. I was deceptive and tried to manipulate people, tried to change how transmasculine people thought of themselves and what choices they made. At… Continue reading Confessions of a Former “Crypto-TERF”