Janice Raymond

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Janice G. Raymond is professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Raymond is also Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW).

Raymond has been the recipient of grants from the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. National Institute of Justice, the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Norwegian Organization for Research and Development (NORAD), and UNESCO. ^[1]

Raymond is also known for The Transsexual Empire, a 1979 book on transsexuality, a paranoid manifesto warning that MTF transsexuals were part of a plot on the part of men to infiltrate the women's movement. Raymond attacks transsexualism as based on the "patriarchal myths" of "male mothering," and "making of woman according to man's image." She claims this is done in order "to colonise feminist identification, culture, politics and sexuality," adding:

“	All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact, appropriating this body for themselves .... Transsexuals merely cut off the most obvious means of invading women, so that they seem non-invasive.	”
—Raymond, 1979: 104

The biological determinism Raymond proposes has been challenged by subsequent schools of feminist thought.

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• The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto by Sandy Stone.
• Where did we go wrong? Feminism and trans theory- two teams on the same side? by Stephen Whittle, 2000.