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Original article here Marina Terragni corrects me straight away: 'I am not a historic feminist, I am simply a feminist'. For some time, before the DDL Zan (a bill presented by Italian deputy Alessandro Zan) matter became current in Italy, Terragni - writer and philosophy lecturer on contract - has been dealing with one of the most controversial issues in the western feminist world, gender identity: a concept that has divided feminists in two, those who believe that the category […]

Artículo original aquí Marina Terragni me corrige inmediatamente: "No soy una feminista histórica, soy feminista y punto". Desde mucho antes de que el tema se pusiera de actualidad en Italia con el Ddl Zan, Terragni -que es escritora, y profesora de filosofía- se ha ocupado de la cuestión más controvertida del mundo feminista occidental, la identidad de género: un concepto que ha dividido a las feministas en dos, las que creen que la categoría de mujer debe replantearse y ampliarse […]

Disaster of identitarianism: I was supposed to interview the American essayist at Mantua's Festivaletteratura but, 24 hours before, she cancelled the meeting, opting for a speech without a debate. They told her I was 'transphobic' and that she would get into trouble. Here are my questions, which she had wanted in advance: you judge When I announced on Twitter that I would be interviewing Rebecca Solnit at the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, one user warned me: "A transfeminist open to debate?". I would never have imagined that 24 […]

Quando ho annunciato su Twitter che avrei intervistato Rebecca Solnit al Festivaletteratura di Mantova, un'utente mi aveva messo in guardia: "Una transfemminista aperta al dibattito?". Mai avrei immaginato che a 24 ore dall'incontro, senza alcun rispetto per il mio lavoro, Solnit avrebbe rifiutato il dialogo -optando per un breve speech senza contraddittorio- perché, a suo dire, io sono "transfobica". Cara amica di Twitter, avrei dovuto ascoltarti. Cose del genere sono capitate a molte altre, e molte volte. JK Rowling, una […]

In Italy the transcult came as a surprise. We would never have believed it. Some of us had been following UK events for some time - starting with the attempt, which was finally abbandoned, to reform the Gender Recognition Act - and overseas but mistakenly we thought that nothing of the kind would ever happen to us. In Southern Europe, gender identity presents itself as cultural abuse. When I try to tell our Anglo-Saxon sisters about the millenary culture of […]

Four femicides in 24 hours. Four women were killed by men related to them - husbands, fathers, boyfriends, former partners - simply because they were women. A mother and a daughter in Carpiano, near Milan. A wife in the province of Bologna. A girl, killed by her former boyfriend, in Aci Trezza, in the province of Catania. The details of such events are useless if not to confirm, once again, the inefficacy of the measures of protection: those who should […]

4 femminicidi in 24 ore. 4 donne uccise da uomini loro congiunti -mariti, padri, fidanzati, ex- per il fatto di essere donne. Una madre e una figlia a Carpiano, nel Milanese. Una moglie in provincia di Bologna. Una ragazza ammazzata dall'ex ad Aci Trezza, nel Catanese. I particolari di cronaca sono inutili se non per confermare, ancora una volta, l'inefficacia delle misure di protezione: gli allontanati non si allontanano, i denunciati a piede libero si inferociscono, gli allarmi lanciati dalle […]

Women's freedom was writ large on the banner of Western "liberators" of Afghanistan.  And women's freedom is now the very first target of the Taliban restoration there. No more school, girls- the poignant farewell of the teachers to their pupils. Leave your jobs, ladies - these places are now only for men. Once again females are inmates, obliged to have a male guardian always at their side. The young virgins without husbands and the interesting widows are sacrificed to the […]

La libertà femminile era stato il vessillo dei "liberatori" occidentali. E la libertà femminile è il primissimo bersaglio della restaurazione talebana in Afghanistan. Niente più scuola, l'addio struggente delle insegnanti alle loro allieve, via dal lavoro -i posti sono solo per gli uomini-, di nuovo recluse, l'obbligo a un maschio tutore sempre al fianco, le giovani senza marito e le vedove sacrificate ai bisogni dei guerrieri, la prigione dei veli e dei burqa ripescati dai bauli. Ogni segno di libertà […]

The phenomenon of transition appears to have profoundly changed in the last thirty years. The main change - though not the only one - concerns the biological sex of the people who decide to transition, which is now more females than males. Female-to-male FtMs were once an absolute rarity. The proportions were roughly one FtM for every hundred MtF, and even then they were two worlds anthropologically different and distant from each other. Today, FtM make up the clear majority […]

There is great anticipation for Monday 2 August, 12.50 pm Italian time, for the women's weightlifting competition in which the New Zealand athlete Laurel Hubbard will participate, celebrated in the media as "the first transgender athlete in the Olympics". Laurel, weighs 131 kg, will compete in the heaviest female category, +87 kg, in group A. In addition to the "first trans" title, Laurel has another record: at 43 he will be the oldest lifter in the Olympics. The other nine […]

Il fenomeno della transizione appare profondamente cambiato negli ultimi trent'anni. Il cambiamento principale -anche se non l'unico- riguarda il sesso biologico delle persone che decidono di transizionare, oggi più femmine che maschi. Un tempo le FtM, da donna a maschio, erano una rarità assoluta. Le proporzioni erano grossomodo una FtM ogni cento MtF, e già allora erano due mondi antropologicamente diversi e lontani tra loro. Oggi le FtM costituiscono la netta maggioranza delle transizioni precoci -7-8 casi su 10- e […]