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It Could Happen Here Weekly 27

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The War Against Trans People - Deep Green Resistance

In february, a camp of indigenous and ecological protesters attempting to stop the thacker pass lithiam mine in nevada was thrown into chaos over an unexpected issue, trans pobia. Two of the activists were revealed to be members of another organization called deep green resistance, or d g r. The group fully embraced radical femininism, staking out a position in n old debate inside the feminist movment raging since the 19 seventies over where the transwoman r in fact women. They became known as transexclusionary radical feminists, or turfs. Their heroes were people like janis raymond, author of the vehemently transpobic scree the trans sexual empire.

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