TERFs hate us
Originally posted on Tumblr
I already have a post somewhere I can’t locate that says exactly this but, no one hates women more than TERFs. No one is more misogynistic than them. They are white nationalist, conservative, trad wife adjacent sexist douche bags.
I’ll never get over this. I’ll never stop talking about it. There’s too much at stake for my trans friends, family, and all. There’s too much at stake for those who cares about liberation and bodily autonomy. I’ll always be calling TERFs out as long as they exist and dirty up feminism and as long as they are an especially virulent scourge HERE.
Ya know who’s never made me feel reduced to my fucking menstrual cycle? Or implied my brain is fundamentally worse than a cis man’s? Or outright disparaged femininity? Or told me that I don’t understand feminism? Or showed up in the notes of my post telling me I don’t know myself? The trans women I know, follow, am connected to, and read.
I’m not 20. I’m not new. (There’s nothing wrong with being either of those things I’m just not them.) But almost every time TERFs run away with my posts attacking me bc I hate their twisted views, they infantalize me and say I must not know anything or be a kid. Or that I don’t intimately KNOW ALREADY what their fucked up views are and have rejected them for good reason.
They hate that the truth is that me and millions of folks just like me have been in feminist spaces longer than many of them have been alive and because of said feminist exposure we are trans positive, inclusive, celebratory, affirming, loving, and solidarity oriented.
The linkages between the experiences of cis and trans women are obvious, overt, clear, and undeniable. Misogyny is misogyny.
I’ve been in said spaces since 2003 and have worked in feminist, girl serving and focused nonprofits since 2005. TERFs/their views make me feel disgusting, small, stuck, and hated. I don’t know how many trans folks I’ve known and interacted with in my IRL lifetime but it’s definitely north of 30 bc 2 of my closest friends (who I’ve known since my late teens) are trans and welcome me into their spaces and several of my coworkers are trans/nb. I can’t think of a single trans person online or IRL who has dismissed my lived experience or harassed me in my inbox like the TERFs here do. (I don’t know any TERFs IRL but maybe they’re hiding. I was unfortunately educated by at least 1 in my under grad gender studies classes in the early 00s which began to cement my trans positive stance.)
ANYWAY I keep ranting and rallying on this stuff bc time and time again TERFs treat me like shit and trans women treat me like sisters. It’s unhinged to see and feel this and watch trans folks face relentless attacks. Anti trans bias and violence dressed up as feminism is fucking wrong. It just is.