Feminist Current

Early in January, an already heated debate about transgenderism and feminism intensified due, in part, toan article written by Suzanne Moore called “Seeing Red: The Power of Female Anger.”  She remarked, in the article,  that women were meant to aspire to extremely unrealistic expectations in terms of what their bodies ‘should’ look like, saying: “We [...]

A  listener and reader who wishes to remain anonymous transcribed my recent interview with Sheila Jeffreys on transgenderism. Jeffreys is a feminist scholar, political activist, and professor in Political Science at the University of Melbourne in Australia. The interview aired on The F Word radio show on Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7fm on May 7th, [...]

Although the Nixon v. Rape Relief case was settled back in 2007, with a dismissal of Kimberly Nixon’s request to appeal the B.C. Court of Appeals decision (that decision being that “Vancouver Rape Relief has the right to prefer to train women who have never been treated as anything but female”), the case continues to [...]