Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Some #sociology studies focus on the loss or gain of gender 'privilege' when transgender people transition, ignoring that this is untrue or uneven for different transgender people (e.g. lack of safety prior to transition; or Black transgender women's experiences different to WW)

Why #intersectionality is important: while #sociology of gender shows that gender structures can be undone (i.e. the inequalities that flow from how gender is organised), looking to transgender people as emblematic of how to do this is problematic in many ways. See my article

Back to the transphobic article in question: this White feminist uses phrase like 'trans ideology' to describe critiques of TERFs. Analyses of race and gender are 'pro-trans, pro-sex-work, anti-White Feminism' and therefore ''Tumblerised #intersectionality,' 'dogma' & 'catechism'

The author, Jane Clare Jones, argues: 'intersectional feminism* functions to displace women’s oppression from the centre of feminism.' 'Women' here is centring *White cisgender* women as the rightful beneficiaries of feminism (*Incorrect term. #Intersectionality is the theory)

Jones then argues: '#Intersectionality is used to bolster and reinforce trans activism’s efforts to undermine woman as a political category.' This is confused on many levels. Intersectionality is theory of how race + gender + other institutional disadvantages are compounded

To Jones, whose 'feminism' operates through whiteness (that is, White race is taken as the universal norm with institutional benefits that go unexamined), the critical race focus of #intersectionality is erased. Instead, it is just a tool for what she calls 'trans activism'

Next, Jones argues: 'there is something utterly (neo)liberal about both intersectionality and trans activism.' Bigots now use 'liberal' as a shorthand for 'I don't like social inclusion.' She argues #intersectionality is about 'individuals' not structural inequality. That's false

Jones mentions 'Crenshaw' by last name but doesn't link to Prof Crenshaw's work. Like many critics of #intersectionality, Jones hasn't read the original, or she would see quite clearly it is expressly about structural inquality (industrial law case study) https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf …