Mary Daly was an American philosopher and anti-transgender activist. Daly was a sex segregationist and a pioneer in gender critical feminism.
Background
Daly was born October 16, 1928 and grew up in a Catholic family in Schenectady, New York.
Daly earned a bachelor’s degree from College of Saint Rose, a master’s degree from Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in theology at Notre Dame in 1953, then did postdoctoral work in Switzerland.
In 1966 Daly joined the Boston College theology faculty. Daly’s first book, The Church and the Second Sex, examined misogyny in Catholicism. Daly earned tenure over the objections of some faculty and administration.
After violating Title IX and Boston College non-discrimination policies by banning male students from a course on feminist ethics, Daly “retired” in 1999 as part of a confidential settlement.
Daly died on January 3, 2010 in Gardner, Massachusetts.
Gyn/Ecology (1978)
During the first major backlash to progress in trans rights, Daly specifically addressed trans issues in the 1978 book Gyn/Ecology.
Today the Frankenstein phenomenon is omnipresent not only in religious myth, but in its offspring, phallocratic technology. The insane desire for power, the madness of boundary violation, is the mark of necrophiliacs who sense the lack of soul/spirit/life-loving principle with themselves and therefore try to invade and kill off all spirit, substituting conglomerates of corpses. This necrophilic invasion/elimination takes a variety of forms. Transsexualism is an example of male surgical siring which invades the female world with substitutes.
Daly adds:
Transsexualism, which Janice Raymond has shown to be essentially a male problem, is an attempt to change males into females, whereas in fact no male can assume female, chromosomes, and life history/experience. The perpetual need of the castrated males known as transsexuals for hormonal “fixes” to maintain the appearance of femaleness is a sign of their contrived and artifactual condition.
References
Bindel, Julie (January 27, 2010). Mary Daly obituary. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/27/mary-daly-obituary
Resources
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)