Feminism: Difference between revisions

Feminism, in its purest form, is the belief that all genders are fundamentally equal and deserve at least equal respect, equal opportunities, and equal rights, and that no gender is "better" than another.

<ref><strong>WARNING</strong>: Contains unpleasant verbal content. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2</ref>Transgender-exclusionary feminism, (usually TERF, or Transgender-exclusionary radical feminism,) is the belief that transgender women are somehow fake or dangerous, and that transgender men are women trying to enforce the patriarchy by gaining special "privileges". It is also an indirect form of [[Sexism#Biological essentialism|biological essentialism]] which holds the belief that [[Gender identity|gender]] and [[Sex|sex]] are the same thing. This therefore says that [[Nonbinary|nonbinary]] identities other than [[Intergender|intergender]] are invalid because they have no physical, chromosomal proof. This may be caused by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism materialism].