I must admit, when I first heard of Sophie A. Lewis, I thought she was a cleaver hoax invented by a conservative blogger designed to show us just how vacuous a feminist philosopher can be. Ms. Lewis has been described as feminist uterine geography theorist and cyborg ecologist. Please!
A newly minted Ph.D, educated in England, now living in Philadelphia, her academic interests include cyborg theory, Marxist feminism, queer environmental humanities and social reproduction i.e. abortion and paid surrogacy. She refers to a woman with child as a “gestator.” Though one is hard-pressed to make sense of her literary ramblings in a variety of publicans, The New York Times took her seriously enough to allow a recent op-ed on British feminists who are hostile to transgenders taking over their space.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/terf-trans-women-britain.html Therefore, one must assume this person, who at first seemed a poor caricature, in print and on YouTube, must be for real.
It’s her latest tirade against efforts to limit abortions in this country that takes this debate where few politicians are willing to go