Trans Advocacy and Sexwork Advocacy: Political Movements Rooted in Sexual Objectification
In 2002, I consulted with Andrea Dworkin as I struggled to understand data from a nine-country study of prostitution.1 The prostituted men who identified as...
An artificial language designed to present men and women as a homogenous group is particularly harmful to prostitution survivors
This language does not allow a discourse on the differences between the sexes in the context of the sex industry. We freely discuss that most...
Woman as Resource: A Reply to Catharine MacKinnon
Jane Clare Jones argues, contra MacKinnon, that decoupling sex and gender deprives feminist analysis of its explanatory power.
From Feminism to Transgenderism: Catharine MacKinnon and her Political Transition
As a Marxist, I was influenced by radical feminism when, as a graduate student, I read Catharine MacKinnon’s book Feminism Unmodified. That was 30 years...
Current Concerns About Gender‑Affirming Therapy in Adolescents
A systematic review of evidence conducted by public health authorities in Finland, Sweden, and England concluded that the risk/benefit ratio of youth gender transition ranges...
