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Sister Raymond's Transmisogyny Bible. Raymond's 'The Transsexual Empire'

Oct 10, 2025
1h 44m

Episode Description

Today, Talia and Emma dissect The Transsexual Empire, a foundational text for the modern gender-critical movement. They discuss the history of radical lesbian feminism, the embattled discourse over trans women's place in it, and the way trans-exclusionary 'radfems' codified a feminist pretext for rank bigotry.

Sources:

Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (don't buy it; don't read it, but if you do, you know where to not buy it)

Finn Enke, Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Towards a Less Plausible History: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-abstract/5/1/9/133890/Collective-Memory-and-the-Transfeminist

Sandy Stone, The 'Empire' Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto: https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/trans-manifesto.pdf

Ky Schevers, Statement About Lane Lloyd: https://kyschevers.medium.com/statement-about-lane-lloyd-1f8d4d67137b

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