The difference between the UK and the US on almost all topics involving women can be answered by understanding that in the US second wave feminism achieved absolutely nothing at all whereas in the UK second wave feminism found a huge number of victories.
This success of second wave feminism in the UK has created a large number of women that, having achieved what they wanted to achieve, have actively worked against third wave feminists. In the US third wave feminists have had no such barrier and had quite a bit of success (and quite a bit of reaction in the form of abortion rollbacks).
These second wave feminists got absorbed into the framework of Britain through writing and journalism, and as such they see third wave feminism as a threat to themselves just as capitalists see it as a threat to a pillar of capitalism, patriarchy.
The issue fundamentally is that all these second wave feminists exist in writers or journalism positions in media. At the bbc, at the guardian, not just the news but a lot of show writers too. The result is a situation where terfs completely and totally make up the entirety of media.
Another factor in this is that Britain stands very little to gain from pinkwashing imperialism. It has had very little success with using lgbt or race issues to divert away from class, which seems too heavily rooted in British political tradition to distract from. The US on the other hand has had success with this and has in fact seen considerable success with using women and lgbt people as an excuse for why other countries should be bombed. Supporting trans people is an overt method of supporting lgbt people at the radical end, so the US political ghouls had more incentive to weaponise lgbt people.
The difference between the UK and the US on almost all topics involving women can be answered by understanding that in the US second wave feminism achieved absolutely nothing at all whereas in the UK second wave feminism found a huge number of victories.
This success of second wave feminism in the UK has created a large number of women that, having achieved what they wanted to achieve, have actively worked against third wave feminists. In the US third wave feminists have had no such barrier and had quite a bit of success (and quite a bit of reaction in the form of abortion rollbacks).
These second wave feminists got absorbed into the framework of Britain through writing and journalism, and as such they see third wave feminism as a threat to themselves just as capitalists see it as a threat to a pillar of capitalism, patriarchy.
The issue fundamentally is that all these second wave feminists exist in writers or journalism positions in media. At the bbc, at the guardian, not just the news but a lot of show writers too. The result is a situation where terfs completely and totally make up the entirety of media.
Another factor in this is that Britain stands very little to gain from pinkwashing imperialism. It has had very little success with using lgbt or race issues to divert away from class, which seems too heavily rooted in British political tradition to distract from. The US on the other hand has had success with this and has in fact seen considerable success with using women and lgbt people as an excuse for why other countries should be bombed. Supporting trans people is an overt method of supporting lgbt people at the radical end, so the US political ghouls had more incentive to weaponise lgbt people.