255:. These claims have also been described as baseless, transphobic and linked to the far-right by many feminist organizations. Scholars have described such claims as a "TERF approach" and as narratives of "organised transphobic discourse" that can accurately be described as far right or reactionary, and linked to
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In recent years, a form of feminism known as trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) has contained similar cisnormative arguments to those of social conservatives, promoting vilification of people with a trans lived experience in the guise of so-called gender-critical feminism. This TERF approach
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In 2019 Signe Krantz, a 20-year old transgender woman who was a candidate for the board of the
Swedish Women's Lobby and who represented one of its member organizations, Maktsalongen, was denied the opportunity to be a candidate due to being transgender, with representatives of the Swedish Women's
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and supported by all parties except the far right and
Christian right. The organization has claimed that legal gender recognition for transgender people threatens gender equality, and has promoted the ideas of the anti-trans movement about transgender people as a threat to women in toilets (see
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published an open letter criticizing the
Swedish Women's Lobby for transphobia, noting that "it is offensive that the nominating committee, without Signe Krantz's knowledge, investigated her legal gender. Suggesting that this would make a woman ineligible for election is directly transphobic. A
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Swedish organizations. From 1997 to 2018, the organization did not focus specifically on transgender issues, and was not perceived as trans-exclusionary. From the onset the goal of the organization was "to integrate women's perspectives into all political, economical, and social
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While the organization did not focus as much on transgender people before 2018, it received criticism for platforming racist and transphobic speakers in connection with its Nordic Forum event in 2014, and several prominent
Swedish feminists and representatives of the
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Lobby making inquiries about her legal gender without her knowledge. Maktsalongen subsequently left the
Swedish Women's Lobby over the group's anti-trans stance. This led to strong criticism of the Swedish Women's Lobby in Swedish media and civil society. The
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person's legal gender says nothing about their identity. The legal gender is determined by the
National Board of Health and Welfare's Legal Council after a prolonged process, which is a remnant of the forced sterilizations that ended in 2013."
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ideas. In the debate over transgender rights the group opposes the trans-inclusive position held by all left-wing and centrist parties. In 2019 the
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