unleashed a series of tweets that asserted a view shared by trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, that transgender women aren’t women.
As two white cisgender lesbians who came of age in the lesbian feminist communities of the 1970s and ’80s, and who are still active in the struggle for justice, we reject Rowling, the TERFs, and the ideology they espouse.
They don’t speak for us.It’s past time for lesbians like us who embrace our trans and nonbinary loved ones to speak out and share our own journeys of change.
We invite you into our conversation.Roey Thorpe (pictured above, right): For many of my young adult years I was a proud member of lesbian feminist communities in Ohio and Michigan.