transphobes: you’re secretly x, you’re just pretending not to be so you can get into y spaces
tumblr: this is transphobic
a transphobe, but they’re like, liberal or whatever: nb people are secretly x, and they’re just pretending so they can get into y spaces
tumblr: god you’re so woke
“traps aren’t trans women, they’re effeminate gay dudes who crossdress to deceive and fuck straight guys”
ok but you’ve, just decided to counter an accusation of transphobia with “checkmate, i’m a huge transphobe AND homophobe. weren’t expecting that one hey?”. like you really thought your knowledge of fetish anime would make you look Less Gross
Full offense but identities such as genderfluid, asexual, aromantic, queer-platonic (like wtf) aren’t LGBT. You are LGBT if you are a lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Also you’re LGBT if you’re trans. Nobody ever got killed for being genderfluid, aromantic, etc.
Bsshg, nobody can tell if you’re genderfluid unless you’re wearing a pin saying I’m genderfluid (even then people just think ya weird). You legit just look like ya androgynous and going through your emo phase. I used to call myself genderfluid and then a transboi, and then a nb girl. I was just a lesbian w/ internalized misogyny.
welp we’ve entered word for word terf rhetoric now, abandon ship
If you’re not being murdered at this very second you’re not valid uwu
Transphobia is a class issue. By this I mean that in a class society that is also deeply transphobic, it is impossible to talk about transphobia in a meaningful way without also talking about class. Trans people are more likely, all other things being equal, than our cis peers to fall into the most exploited and oppressed sections of the working class and the extent to which transphobia will negatively affect any given trans person’s life will be mediated by their economic class. This article is not intended to be a comprehensive analysis of every aspect of this issue, but to contribute to an ongoing conversation around it and illustrate a class struggle perspective on transgender issues.
The only reason terfs try to insist on things like male socialization and biology is they want to appear to people that their hate and disgust is justified, and hopefully they use these talking points to drag people along by inciting on their emotions and the like.
Funny thing tho: you apply actual feminism to each point and it falls flat.
Male socialization? Baloney, because there’s lots of examples of kids growing up under single moms with varying degrees of gender representation.
Biology? DNA may be a blueprint for morphology to some degree, but nature is far too weird to apply just two things to describe everything.
TERFs also tend to believe “male socialisation” is fixed at birth, effectively that babies assigned male are born abusive. under this model the patriarchy isn’t even a set of ideas or a choice to uphold a broken system, it becomes an inbuilt feature of the human race that can’t ever be defeated. which is terrifying.
It flies in the face of every other psychological theory of socialisation, has never been peer reviewed or considered as actual science. and the obvious: babies don’t seem to even have thoughts until a few weeks after birth, and the system of gender that babies are immersed in takes a lot of time to learn.
it’s really nothing but recycling the brain sex argument. I’ve never heard of a radfem who can admit that socialisation could ever be malleable, or even fixed at a certain age after birth because that might mean admitting the existence of trans people who realise they’re trans in early childhood. I haven’t even seen radfems consider the thought that people could receive a different socialisation in different cultures with different ideas if gender. they’re effectively claiming the gender framework in the western world is a timeless universal constant, and at this point it’s interchangeable with their “the Patriarchy is found on the Y chromosome” theory.
So there was this study in which adults were shown a crying baby. Those who were told the baby was a boy interpreted the baby’s emotion as anger. Those who were told the baby was a girl interpreted the baby’s emotion as being upset.
Confirmation bias is when people only acknowledge information that supports their biases, or twists information that does not into information that does.
So whenever someone says “trans women are acting according to male socialization” or characterizes anything a trans woman does as being “male” keep that bit about the babies in mind, and confirmation bias.
For some people trans women can do literally anything and it is perceived as somehow stemming from a fictional essential ~maleness~.
I recall snowflakeespecial, for example, linking two webcomics. One was of a cis woman celebrating her breasts, and one was of a trans woman celebrating her breasts. These comics were very similar in presentation and both said basically the same thing. However, snowflakeespecial claimed that the two strips were obviously completely different because the one made by a cis woman was genuine, whereas the one made by a trans woman was evidence of autogynephilia.
This is also reflected when cis people know a woman is trans, they will interpret any behavior, any physical feature, anything to support the contention that said woman is obviously trans, even if they had no idea even moments before.
In short, the game is rigged. When TWERFs, when truscum, when trans women collaborators pull this shit, they’re not engaging honestly. They’re engaging in terms of “Trans women are men. Therefore everything they do is indicative of being men.”
This is also why they lose their shit when trans women refuse to comply with their perceptions, as happened last night.
The basic rule is, however, that trans women are not allowed to be authorities on our own experiences. Everything we say is debatable and simply being a trans woman makes one discreditable. Any attempt to step outside the very narrow, confining boxes that others have decided describe us is seen as an act of aggression.
For that matter, any attempt to assert boundaries is seen as an act of aggression.Â
it’s true im typing this from a mass grave full of binary trans people. the nonbinaries did this to us. those monsters
you’re banned from playing the “i’m being called a terf just because i’m a lesbian” card if u have anything like a mogai hell tag btw. i’m very aware of the problem that people are watering down terf when they mean transphobe but,, tbh if you have a post once a month about how u respect trans women but every second post is shitting on nonbinary terms and (long sigh) kweers making up stuff for attention you can’t act surprised if that’s the first impression people get from your blog.
especially if there’s a hint of biphobia lmao it makes up the entirety of radfem rhetoric when they aren’t shitting on trans women. and u need to be able to recognise this instead of this kneejerk bullshit that “my biphobia and/or nonbinary erasure looks nothing like theirs, what a scandalous accusation” as if radfems didn’t invent the bullshit i see way too many young lesbians falling into
Remember when TERF extraordinaire Sheila Jefferys said that the people she agrees with the most in reference to trans people are conservatives🤔
Now one of the things I find puzzling about it is that, when I look at the House of Lords debate on this legislation, those I agree with most are the radical right. Particularly the person I find that I agree with most, in here, and I’m not sure he will be pleased to find this, is Norman Tebbitt… Tebbitt also says that the savage mutilation of transgenderism, we would say if it was taking place in other cultures apart from the culture of Britain, was a harmful cultural practice, and how come we’re not recognizing that in the British Isles. So he makes all of these arguments from the radical right, which is quite embarrassing to me, but I have to say, so called progressive and left people are not recognizing the human rights violations of transgenderism or how crazy the legislation is.
-Sheila Jeffreys in the 2006, Andrea Dworkin Commemorative Conference. Also please do note that DWORKIN HERSELF was supportive of trans people and wrote that government should support trans people and provide medical help in transitioning and that trans women should be intergrated into women’s communities 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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