Trans Skepticism Goes Mainstream

American liberals are increasingly willing to speak out against transgender orthodoxy.

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Left: Bette Midler at the 2019 Variety’s Power of Women event in New York City. Right: Macy Gray at the Cannes Film Festival in France in 2012.

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The saying goes that when America sneezes, Britain gets the cold. However, when it comes to skepticism about transgender ideology, the reverse might be true. Perhaps buoyed by the courage of the fierce female natives of “TERF island” (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), left-leaning American women are feeling increasingly emboldened.

“WOMEN OF THE WORLD!” Bette Midler wrote on Twitter last week. “We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!’”

Madeleine Kearns

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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