transfeminism - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A book about this submovement argues for a middle ground between essentialist and pure social constructivist views of gender and observes that aspects of homophobia arise from “oppositional sexism.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this submovement of Julia Serano’s 2007 essay collection Whipping Girl. The activist group The Menace inspired Emi Koyama’s manifesto of this submovement within queer theory.

ANSWER: transfeminism [accept transfeminist studies; prompt on feminism or radical feminism; prompt on transgender studies]

[10e] Serano’s concept of transmisogyny applies this sociological framework described by Kimberlé Crenshaw. This framework analyzes how people’s identities overlap to produce unique forms of oppression and privilege.

ANSWER: intersectionality

[10m] Serano cites this thinker’s essay “How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay” to describe forms of pathologization accompanying femininity. This queer theorist coined the term “homosocial” and wrote Epistemology of the Closet.

ANSWER: Eve Sedgwick [or Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	17.00	100%	40%	30%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


Claremont A	UC Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Florida State A	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
Duke	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Winona State	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin B	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
BU	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
UBC	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UW B	UW A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	10	10	30
Florida B	UCF B	0	10	0	10
Florida A	UCF C	10	10	0	20
William & Mary	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
UNC B	South Carolina	10	10	10	30
Virginia A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Brown A	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
ASU	TAMU	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
John Jay College	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
RIT B	ESF A	0	10	0	10
UCLA	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Missoui S&T	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Manchester	10	10	0	20
LSE	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Cambridge E	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Durham	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	10	10	20