The most visible fault line within LGBTQ culture is trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF). Coined by trans ally and feminist theorist Viv Smythe, TERF ideology argues that trans women are not "real" women but rather male-bodied interlopers who threaten female-only spaces. Prominent figures like Janice Raymond (author of The Transsexual Empire , 1979) argued that transsexuality was a patriarchal plot to destroy "natural" women.
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