Nina Power is a British philosopher and anti-transgender activist from the movement’s gender critical faction. Power is a sex segregationist who promotes the unfounded conspiracy theory that transgender people are “erasing” lesbians and tomboys.
Background
Power was born around 1980 and attended University of Warwick, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Power then earned a doctorate from Middlesex University.
Power’s book The One-Dimensional Woman (2009) examines pornography, consumer capitalism, and the ideology of “women’s work.” In the 2021 book What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents, Powers proposes the term heteroÂsociality “to appeal for a new appreciation of sexual difference based not on conflict, antipÂathy and commodification, but on friendship, trust and mutual respect between the sexes.”
Power hosts the podcast The Lack with political theorist Benjamin Studebaker and filmmaker Helen Rollins.
Anti-transgender activism
Power platforms and logrolls for a number of other anti-trans activists, including Benjamin Boyce, Andrew Doyle, Matt Walsh, Scott Newgent, Keira Bell, Maya Forstater, Allison Bailey, Kathleen Stock, Victoria Smith, Bev Jackson, J.K. Rowling, Julie Bindel, Helen Joyce, Suzanne Moore, and anti-trans groups like Womanâs Place UK, Mumsnet, Sex Matters, and LGB Alliance.
Praising Walsh’s What Is a Woman?, Power writes:
Walsh goes further than his dumb-beardy act, pinning various medical and psychological practitioners on why they think itâs a good idea to give children an osteoporosis-causing drug also used in chemical castration. Their answers are terrifying: Children will know when theyâre ready; children know best; the drugs are reversible (they are not). Nobody, in fact, knows the long-term effect of giving young people (or adults) cross-sex hormones. What we do know isnât good; they donât reduce negative thoughts in the gender-dysphoric children who take them, for example.
On the erasure of “tomboys,” Power says:
Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was âborn in the wrong body,â and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility. Setting children on this pathâone that many regretâis an obvious, grotesque harm.
Power has been critical of Nicola Sturgeon, Dylan Mulvaney, and that shining example of the failures of federally centralized “gender clinics,” the Tavistock.
References
Power, Nina (June 14, 2022). Trans Barbarism. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/trans-barbarism
Power, Nina (January 24, 2023). The Trans War on Tomboys. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/the-trans-war-on-tomboys [references photo from ~1991n when she was 10 or 11]
Power, Nina (February 16, 2023). Nicola Sturgeonâs Trans Folly. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/nicola-sturgeon-s-trans-folly
Power, Nina (March, 2023). Welcome to TERF Island. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/welcome-to-terf-island
Media
Benjamin Boyce (Mar 10, 2021). What Men & Women Want | with Nina Power. -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uex1YPdw1h4
Benjamin Boyce (Jan 7, 2023). Considering Systems of Power | with Nina Power! -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-mSdpyHas
Chris Williamson (Jan 31, 2022). The Crisis Of Modern Masculinity – Nina Power. | Modern Wisdom Podcast 429 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGO_XWSO7CQ
Triggernometry (Feb 13, 2022). “Demonising Men Will Make Things Worse” – Nina Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5whVOaxuS0
Louise Perry (Feb 12, 2023). Masculinity and Its Discontents – Nina Power. | Maiden Mother Matriarch 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gXD1DgXezU
Gus Carter (Mar 17, 2023). Why are all our young men being demonised? | SpectatorTV The Spectator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEiUwQafyDk
Andrew Doyle (Jul 10, 2021). GBNews Nina Power: In a âthriving healthy culture, everything has to be potentially mockable.â -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uImdUzulhg
Resources
Nina Power (ninapower.net)
Compact Magazine (compactmag.com)
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Substack (substack.com)
Patreon (patreon.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)