French feminists have taken aim at American transgender ideology, which they claim is starting to infect France and even dominate the country’s political discourse.
Dora Moutot – a renowned French feminist who currently faces a lawsuit for hate speech after misgendering a biological man – argues, “[i]n France, we are philosophers. We enjoy ideas for their own sake and have no problem with letting a concept stay as it is – conceptual.”
American academics, however, got hold of “French theory” and decided to apply theoretical ideas to the real world through activism, giving birth to gender theory, and “[t]hen, Americans threw it back at us.”
As a result, “transphobia” is being prioritized in the nation’s political conversation, with women in France facing the same threats to their safety as those in the United States and Britain. Women are facing abuse if they attend pro-biological women’s marches, and are being “blacklisted” if they dare reassert their rights, Moutot explains.
Aggression towarsd of so-called ‘TERFs’ – a pejorative acronym which stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminists” – is also becoming more prevalent, after the walls of Paris were graffitied with “Kill the Terfs” on International Women’s Day earlier this year.
A growing number of French women are standing up to the movement and “daring to fight back,” Moutot asserts, adding: “We are fighting for freedom of expression and pluralism of ideas.”
Toc-toc-toc @EmmanuelMacron @RomeIsabelle @MarleneSchiappa @GDarmanin, allo l'état français?
Les femmes qui pensent qu'être une femme est une réalité biologique (les "TERFs") sont menacées de mort partout dans les rues de Paris.
Merci de réagir ? Allooooooooo? 📞📞 pic.twitter.com/2PGQhlSGYf
— Dora Moutot (@doramoutot) March 11, 2023
