galpalison:

when a terf calls me a heterosexual male i’m like, where’s the consistency? bc by their definition i’d be bisexual not straight. and if gender dysphoria is either a a priori mental illness or a maladaptive effect of our homophobic culture (which are two of the most common explanations that aren’t all-out frothing-at-the-mouth Transsexual Empire conspiracy theory) shouldn’t they be treating me with some degree of sympathy instead of absolute pitiless abjection? especially when i was like 16 or 17? i mean it’s not like their ideology is just founded in reflexive disgust and reification of heteropatriarchal sexual divisions or some nonsense like that, it’s clearly informed by careful, rational, radical feminist analysis of the material relationships within our society. so i’m just confused as to why they’d make such a silly mistake? it’s weird