The Real History Behind Anti-Trans Laws

Go to https://surfshark.com/jessica or use code JESSICA at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! The transgender bathroom ‘debate’ isn’t new (but it is stupid). I’m looking at you TERF’s… Looking back through history, gender politics is consistently entangled with race, class, misogyny, and disability. Minority groups existing outside the ‘norm’ are attacked as ‘radicals’ or menaces to society… But what prevails each time we face oppression AND causes real change in our society? Our community 🏳️‍🌈✨ We call on the Government to launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988): https://petition.parliament.uk/petiti... TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 04:58 The Language of Fear [Section 28] 07:33 Anita Bryant 15:15 The Lavender Scare 20:40 Butch Lesbians 25:03 Black Women 29:18 Women Voting and Divorce 33:49 Conclusion My BRAND NEW MERCH store: https://jessicaoutofthecloset.myshopi... If you'd like to send the twins a baby gift, please consider donating to their nappy stock- they're very grateful! https://ko-fi.com/jessicaoutofthecloset FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram ➭   / jessicaoutofthecloset   TikTok ➭   / jessicaoutofthecloset   Facebook ➭   / jessicaoutofthecloset   Threads ➭ https://www.threads.net/@jessicaoutof... Find my filming equipment on my Amazon store: UK ➭ https://amzlink.to/az0yCIyQyduqS US ➭ https://amzlink.to/az0uHJvmBASLD How to JOIN the Kellgren-Fozard Club and SPONSOR this channel ➭    / jessicakellgrenfozard   Music by Epidemic Sound ➭ http://share.epidemicsound.com/mvszv ONLINE SOURCES & ARTICLES: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/lave... https://www.britannica.com/biography/... https://www.womenshistory.org/educati... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-lave... https://www.them.us/story/queer-trans... https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/5... https://www.them.us/story/the-lavende... https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/lave... https://outhistory.org/items/show/1425 https://www.loc.gov/collections/women... https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us... https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e... https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e... FURTHER READING: Nestle, J. (1992) The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader Kennedy, E, L. & Davis, M. (1993) Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold Feinberg, L. (1996) Transgender Warriors Halberstam, J. (1998) Female Masculinity Faderman, L. (1991) Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers Newton, E. (1993) Cherry Grove, Fire Island Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Vicinus, M. (1985) Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850–1920 Showalter, E. (1985) The Female Malady Faludi, S. (1991) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Friedan, B. (1963) The Feminine Mystique Scott, J. (1963) “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” Hooks, B. (2000) Feminism Is for Everybody Collins, P, H. (1990) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Hochschild, A, R. & Machung, A. (1989) The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home Coontz, S. (1992) The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap Painter, N, I. (1996) Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Hooks, B. (1981) Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism Crenshaw, K. (1991) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color Snorton, C, R. (2017) Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity Jones, M, S. (2020) Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Smiet, K. (2021). Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality: Traveling Truths in Feminist Scholarship McDaniel, R. (2013) Dying for Joe McCarthy's sins: the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt Faderman, L. (2015) The Gay Revolution Cohen, S. (1972) Folk Devils and Moral Panics Local Government Act 1986, c. 10. legislation.gov.uk Clendinen, D., & Nagourney, A. (1999). Out for good: The struggle to build a gay rights movement in America. Weeks, J. (1977) Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble Foucault, M. (1976) The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 Rubin, G. (2007) Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality Schulman, S. (2021) Let the Record Show Hall, S et al. (1979) "Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order Gregory, J. (2022) LGBTQ+ Histories in the Archives