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As a young girl in the small town of Cromwell, Connecticut, all Andraya Yearwood wanted to do was run. Born into a family that prized athleticism, she dabbled in soccer, basketball, football, and dance as a child. But one day in the sixth grade, she saw older students running around the track oval, and she was hooked. She pictured herself, like them, flying on two fast feet. In the seventh and eighth grades, Andraya competed on her school’s boys track and field team, but that increasingly felt wrong. From an early age, Andraya had been drawn to her mom’s heels, to wearing skirts and wigs with long hair. It was a therapist in middle school who gave her the words to understand who she always had been, a girl who was transgender. When she entered high school in the fall of 2016, she wanted to run on the girls’ team. She was a girl, after all. She knew that, and now she wanted the world, or at least a slightly bigger world beyond her family, her friends, and her school to acknow
In an hour-long video about trans rights on
The Owen Jones Show, a viewer asked: “So-called left-wing TERFs are way less of a social phenomenon in the US versus the UK. What’s so intrinsically British about transphobia?”
“Anti-trans feminism did actually start in the US,” Faye said. “It originated in the 1970s in the US, with Janice Raymond’s
The Transsexual Empire. But it had died out as a mainstream force in the US by the 80s and 90s.”
But it’s taken hold in Britain because there are “almost two strains of transphobia”, Faye continued. “There’s the one that’s like Trump and the Christian right and the far-right: trans people are gross and unnatural and degenerate, in a similar way to how gay people are, and we just want them to not exist for that reason.