Sugar & Spice

In this video I interview four male-to-female transwomen, confronting the critiques of radical feminists Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys: Essentially a discussion over the proprietorship of womanhood and the oppressiveness of femininity.

The original criticism was popularized by Raymond's public attack on transwoman Sandy Stone in her 1979 book, 'The Transsexual Empire: The making of the she-male'.

Raymond boldly claims that "All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact, appropriating this body for themselves . . . ."

Stone responded with her own academic analysis, "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~sandy/empire-strikes-back, giving voice to transsexuals in what is now known as Transgender Theory.