British feminist Sophie Lewis wrote in an oped for the New York Times, titled ‘How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans’, the conditions for British feminism’s transphobia arise out of a consensus in British academia and the press that is overwhelmingly middle class and white, both in its composition and outlook: ‘middle-and upper-class white feminists have not received the pummelling from black and indigenous feminists that their American counterparts have, and thus their perspectives retain a credibility and a level of influence in Britain.’
