#Violent Transactivism

[thearbourist]

New Zealand & Australia - The Violence Against Women in the name Transactivism

People need to rethink their positions on those claiming to be on the ‘right side of history’. The “Be Kind” transgender activists have proven repeatedly they are nothing of the sort.

[unholyunlovely]

thank you for your message and thank you for being so welcoming towards cryptos <3

the fact that even questioning the trans ideology is not allowed is so creepy... movements should be questioned especially when it is as violent as the transactivism movement... maybe more people will open their eyes and realise the fallacies of this ideology!

I am being careful thank you, hope you are too <3 (🐧)

yes of course! i was once a crypto too <3

it is very creepy, and very cult-like. but i believe people are growing more aware, and getting tired of the constant policing.

i’m glad! i try to be as safe as possible too 💕

[transactivistsitow]

Radfems are a bunch of rich, white cis assholes and I hope they all bleed to death after a miscarriage. - @TransRiotGrrrl (screen cap from Terfsarewomen on Twitter)

[gently-radical]

I'm angry and I'm heartbroken and I swear to all that is keeping me awake right now, if I get one more person telling me that I don't have the right to defend women from the men hurting them I'm going to lose my shit. I have read at least three different articles about baby girls being raped. I have seen list upon list of trans male predators and seen countless people continuing to defend them. I've seen men claim that FGM isn't serious and that they won't care until circumcision is banned in America. I've seen women say that FGM can be empowering and honestly wtf??? I'm beyond angry at how fucking little anyone cares about women and girls, and you can fuck right off about genitals. Do you seriously think that a baby girl has done anything other than exist as female to be raped??? Get out of my fucking face about identity politics. I'm done listening to you big babies cry about how hard it is for men to hear that they're men. If that's the worst problem you have, consider yourself fucking lucky. Meanwhile, women are worried about their husbands coming home and beating them, their sons sexually assaulting them because of the incest porn they found on his computer, the young girls in high school who have to share a locker room with trans male students, the girls who have lost all privacy in their bathrooms because of trans males, the women who have been assaulted and murdered. Male violence is male violence, and pronouns don't change shit. Your ideology is smoke and mirrors, and when it causes suffering, it causes women to suffer. Radfems are out here struggling to pick up the pieces that you idiots leave behind when you smash legislation with your ugly pink bats. Radfems are out here trying to save female spaces, trying to protect and educate other women, trying desperately to fight against this image you've forced onto us out of fear and malice. You tell us we deserve to die, we deserve to be raped, we deserve to be murdered. You send us graphic messages about how you would rape and torture us before killing us. You send mothers anons about killing their children, raping their babies, murdering their family, because they won't cater to your feelings. You tell lesbians to choke on your ~girldick~ as if lesbians aren't correctively raped for being exclusively homosexual. You make me sick. You make me angry. You do not deserve the resources, activism, or protection that you take from women who need it FROM YOU. Put me on a list, block me, doxx me, I don't give a shit anymore. If the whole world knows I'm an evil radfem, at least they'll never associate me with you fucking monsters.

[a-room-of-my-own]

sometimes it feels to me as if some radfems on here were just raised in such a liberal home that they don't even know how badly women and girls were being shamed for having multiple partners during their lifetime. not even 20 years ago, it was already "not done" to date around, and girls who did hook-ups were called names. but now we're supposed to pretend that the opposite is true- and that all of society affirms women having sex casually, and doing whatever they want?

so you get these insane ideas like pretending it's all progressive and feminist to tell women to keep their legs closed, or to just not have casual sex. did they forget what the point of birth control was? do they not realize that without that, "keep your legs closed" was literally the only option they had? the entire abortion debacle is about women being made equal to men in the way that they can control when they have children, and it can be an actual choice. but apparently that's been forgotten now! nah, instead let's just tell every single woman that she should go on a "sex strike". like that's gonna overturn the overturning or something? do they think the conservative judges are gonna get up, check twitter, and go "oh, wait, they're not having casual sex anymore! damn, my bad! guess we'll allow abortions again. we love women having casual sex so much."

For those who are younger than let's say, 25, it seems like a solution because they grew up in a hypersexualized society overloaded with pornography. But it's just like transactivism, it's maybe 10-12 years old. So it's recent, but it's their teenage and young adult years when they began their sex life. Many of them have an unhealthy relationship to sex because they educated themselves with pornography, and their vision of sex is for many of them entirely coming from porn, you can see it just with their choice if words.

I was wondering why they were using acronyms like "PIV" and acting like sexual intimacy is a to-do list of different sexual acts. To me that sounded like prostitution: how much for PIV, how much for anal etc... In fact it sounds like porn. It's categories, disconnected from one another, it's not a shared moment, it's a 10 min YouPorn vid, and instead of fellatio-PIV-anal you just "skip" the PIV part. No one has sex like this in real life.

Also the idea that they can't see why women would enjoy sex. Well of course, if you've only watched pornography you'll think sex between a man and a woman is demeaning and violent, that there's no way women would want this.

They're just like some "asexuals", porn-sick and inexperienced, afraid of sex and fascinated by its most violent expression. That's a recipe for puritan knee-jerk reactions.

[wiccancaileag]

TW: T*rf slur

TERF

Normalization of violence against women. English translation.

Publicación original acá.

TERF is the acronym for “Trans exclusionary radical feminist”, in Spanish “Feminista Radical Transexcluyente”, promoting the idea that radical feminism is transphobic. It's being used as an insult, clearly misogynistic, and this concept is perpetuated mostly by people who are part of the queer movement and transactivism, but this is a totally wrong conception.

Within radical feminism we analyze gender as a social construction and as a mechanism to oppress women. We do not see it as an identity but as a tool of oppression based on our sex. This is why we are gender abolitionists, as this is the only solution to free ourselves from gender oppression and all that this entails. Queer theory aims to eliminate the category of sex and if this happens, then our oppression is invisible and denied, just as feminism would disappear.

This implies how important it is to consider biological sex, and to understand then that it is that we do not want trans-women in our movement: because they do not suffer oppression because they are women, because oppression is based on our material reality. A male person will grow up with male socialization and unborn privileges of the oppressive sex. No matter how much you transition, sex is a material and immutable reality.

To carry out this analysis, it is necessary to be clear about the definitions of sex and gender, and the difference between oppression and discrimination, since it is these confusions that cause misinformation.

It is also necessary to take into account that radical feminism already has an agenda and a defined political subject, which is the woman (adult human female, person of the female sex). We support separatist spaces to protect and prioritize ourselves. Claiming ourselves, talking about ourselves, about our bodies and experiences, defending what is ours and the few spaces that we have managed to conquer. It is not transphobia or hatred, it is to focus on women and fight for our liberation.

To sum it up, it is simple to understand the fact why we are trans-feminine separatists in the movement understanding that we are based on sex. It is contradictory to call us "transexclusive" when transmasculines are also part of the movement because they are biologically women and therefore belong to the political subject (it should be noted that this does not represent an obligation for transmasculines, that is, they are not obliged to be part of the movement if they don't want to), plus you can't exclude someone who was never part of it. The most important thing to understand all this is to have clear ideas and know how to separate things.

The fact that they want to silence women is nothing new, they have always treated us like the bad guys in history. TERF is an insult, and it is misogynistic because it seeks to silence us, invalidate us, violate us, misinform us, reduce feminism only to the criticism of gender and queer theory, since other issues are also being fought for. They look for a thousand ways and excuses in order to discredit us, they want to emotionally blackmail us by making us feel guilty for prioritizing us, they want to impose fear on us by insulting and verbally hurting us until they threaten, they twist words and invent things to make us look like the violent ones, and promote hate speech towards us.

Feminism is a movement by and for women, it must be a separatist space and where struggles are not mixed because that way the objective is lost. We must be very clear about what we are looking for and what we are fighting for, we cannot allow just anyone to come and tell us how we have to act in feminism and what we have to do... patriarchy conditions us our entire lives, let's not allow that too to break into our spaces.

TW: Violence, d**th threats, r*p* threats

JK Rowling: “'Feminazi’, ‘TERF’, ‘bitch’, ‘witch’. Times change. Woman-hate is eternal.”

“TERF. Become trans. Radfem is a trick. D1e. Im gonna r*pe you.”

“Happy pride day. Hope you kick every TERF you see”.

“sh00t radfems”

“I haven’t wished anyone d**th, but I hope every terf d1es”

[pronoun-fucker]

hey, i have a question. i really hope this doesn't come off as rude, that's not my intention. i just want to understand your point of view. how come i (a trans boy) don't deserve the same rights as you or other people? a lot of your posts are really hurtful to me and other trans people. why aren't we allowed to be respected? sorry if this is rude, i just want to see your point of view <3

I love getting asks like these because it makes it clear that none of you know what “TERFs” actually believe. But then asking shows a willingness to learn so I’m more than happy to answer. And you don’t sound rude at all by the way, you guys get a lot of intentional misinformation about us from other transactivists so I can understand you thinking that that we believe you don’t deserve rights.

So to start off, we don’t believe that trans people don’t deserve rights. We think that you should have the same rights as everyone and if transactivism were actually about your rights, a lot of us would be fighting with you. If it was about discrimination in the workplace, or ensuring you all have homes as every person should, or making sure you get adequate medical care (no, transition is not counted under this as it is cosmetic) etc, a lot of us would be standing with you because we do believe that you shlould have rights.

However that’s not what transactivism is about now. Right now it’s just about taking away women’s rights and oppressing us further. Transwomen want access to women’s safe spaces, and regardless of your stance on this, the fact remains that transwomen are biologically male. Putting a male in a female safe space is dangerous for the women there no matter how he identifies. Crime stats are being altered. Transwomen have been shown to have the same violent crime rates as other males, but transwomen are being marked down as women so it now it’s inevitably going to look like women commit more violent crime than we actually do. Transwomen are being put in women’s prisons and want access to women’s bathrooms but gender inclusion increases sexual violence towards women and girls. And on top of all of this there’s the cotton ceiling. The notion that lesbians can, at all, be attracted to transwomen just because they identify as such is absurd. Lesbians are female homosexuals, which means they are exclusively attracted to other females. Which means they can’t be attracted to transwomen. Just like gay men can’t be attracted to trans men. It goes against the literal definition of homosexuality, but trans people seem to feel entitled to sex from homosexuals of the opposite sex, which is blatant homophobia. Those are just the things off the top of my head.

So to sum up; we don’t want to take away your rights, we just want you to stop taking away ours.

[terventenko]

i love that the only responses she can offer are name-calling and death wishes lol. a woman points out examples of lesbophobia from transwomen and your knee-jerk reaction is to yell "terf!" and tell her to die. not a bit of vitriol for the lesbophobes and r4pe apologists she was calling out. op, you are literally the accomplice you're complaining about here.

This site treats lesbians like shit and you all are accomplices

[thearbourist]

The Vancouver Police Department Not Doing Their Job - No Assault Charges for an Assault

Sorry folks, the videos in question are only available on Twitter at the moment. But what they depict is a trans identified male assaulting someone in front of the police. The police response was to do nothing and call the incidence a ‘mutual fight’. The police are there to enforce the laws for everyone in society. This did not happen. Please contact the Vancouver Police department and register a…

[leblogdebrillante]

Tonight on French Twitter there's a hashtag "Not in my name" by average LGBT people who are fed up with "extremist" activists (libfems, queer, transactivism, political lesbianism, people who use violent slogans, etc.), I’m quite surprised! :-0

[transactivistsitow]

Some people don’t deserve human rights especially when they seek to deny others of said rights, where I came from women were beheaded for less than what #terf do in the west.  I feel ashamed to be same gender / sex as poor excuses of human beings like you - @FMStomp

https://twitter.com/fmstomp/status/1038170571153068032?s=21

http://archive.is/8GFeo

[radfeminismes]

On transactivism

Things that are not useful:

Trans women are women

Trans men are men

Things that are useful:

Do not trigger anyone’s dysphoria

Gender is a harmful social construction, both for cis and for trans people

Not every dysphoric person will need a transition and that’s okay

Many people will need a transition and that’s okay

Trans people can be just as beautiful as cis people

Gay people do not sleep with the opposite sex, regardless of their identity

Trans women can suffer sexism due to their presentation and they can be privileged because of their sex

Trans men can suffer sexism due to their sex but can sometimes access some privilege because of their presentation

Trans women should be held accountable when they do something wrong

Some trans women can be rapists, but making a generalization like that is transphobic

Trans men are not criminal demons

Cotton ceiling rethorics are rape culture

If you’re not okay with your date being trans, you should not reject them violently or be rude.

Trans people should be able to access healthcare like cis people do, that includes transition

Trans people remain the sex they were born as, at least until a full transition

Society may not see you as the gender you identify as

Trans people should be able to disclose their trans status to doctors and protocols should be made to ensure their safety

Hormones for trans people should be suited especifically to their needs

Hormones come from plants, not from animal abuse. Conjugated estrogens are very rarely used now

Avoiding puberty is very unhealthy. In the case of trans women it might make genital surgery impossible.

Trans women cannot get periods. If a trans woman is experiencing pms-like symptoms she needs to see a doctor as soon as possible 

Any political analysis that relies exclusively on “trans women are women and trans men are men” is going to be awful

Threatening “TERFs” with violence is really fucked up

If you feel like calling a trans man a “TERF” maybe you should start considering that the word has lost all meaning

If your feminism excludes trans men, your feminism is awful

If trans men and butch lesbians want to have a separate community that’s okay

Trans men and butch lesbians have a lot of shared experiences, solidarity would be great

Trans people should get equal access to the workforce

Iran isn’t a good example of treatment towards transgender people

Everyone should be able to change their legal name with the same difficulties, trans people shouldn’t have it harder

Not liking gender roles makes you a reasonable person, not trans

Being feminine doesn’t mean being a woman. This applies to trans men and trans women and cis people

Being masculine doesn’t mean being a man. This applies to trans men and trans women and cis people

Many cis people don’t feel to connected to the gender assigned at them, that by itself is not grounds for a transition

Radical feminism is accused of transphobia for the silliest things

Radical feminism doesn’t check out actual transphobia, maybe the reason is the above point, but there’s still a real problem

Radical feminism and trans activism could benefit greatly from each other

Someone criticizing current transactivism with valid reasoning isn’t the same as being transphobic

Someone may criticize transactivism using transphobia and that’s really bad

Just don’t be a fucking asshole, it’s not that hard

[womens-voices]

Evie Amati, a man who misappropriates women, attacked bystanders with an axe at a Sydney 7-11 January 7, 2017 .

He told the court he did it because women rejected him.

Men steal women’s identities through a sense of entitlement to our bodies and threaten women with violence for refusing to validate or sleep with them - making transgenderism, for men, an incel movement.

“A Sydney woman who attacked three people with an axe has denied she was very angry after perceiving she had been rejected because she was transgender.

‘I have experienced rejection countless times before,’ Evie Amati told a NSW District Court jury during her cross-examination on Monday.“

TRAs share many commonalities with MRAs and incels.

It logically follows that men who feel entitled to women’s identity feel entitled to our bodies.

Transactivism is men’s rights activism. It is a manipulative systemic attack on women that serves many functions: all of which only benefit men.

The first and most basic tactic of TRAs is the narcissistic call to sympathy. Men who adopt the trans label demand women’s emotional support by appealing to our socialized desire to care for others.

These men claim to be depressed or mentally unwell, due to being transgender, whenever they violently lash out; but they insist gender dysphoria is not a mental illness when they advocate for colonizing women’s spaces. Rather, they accuse women of being mentally unwell for knowing that men pose a threat to our safety.

This is exactly the same manipulation applied to privileged white men who commit random acts of violence. Media outlets tell us he was troubled, or depressed, and it was his mental state (separated from his body - again, the Cartesian dualism) which caused the attack.

Incels deeply hate women for rejecting them and blame a lack of access to a female body for their terrorism. Trans-identified men deeply hate women for not validating their self-objectifying fetish and blame a lack of full appropriation of the female form for their terrorism.

[truethingsiwishicouldsay]

My Experience Since Starting This Blog...

Me: I’m critical of the parts of transactivism that step on women’s rights.

Transactivists: DIE TERF KILL YOURSELF GET RAPED

Me: My sister was attacked by trans women after being terfed for refusing sex with a pushy creep, and I want to be able to talk about it without being attacked by fanatics.

Transactivists: YOU’RE LYING YOU’RE LYING DIE TERF KILL YOURSELF GET RAPED

Me: I’m really disturbed by the violent transactivist reaction to criticism of any trans woman, even if she beats, murders and/or rapes multiple women.

Transactivists: THAT NEVER HAPPENS TRANS WOMEN ARE PERFECT YOU’RE LYING DIE TERF DIE TERF WE WILL FIND YOU DIE TERF!!!

Me: Threatening murder and suicide-baiting women is not feminist.

Transactivists: DIE TERF I’D LIKE TO CUT OFF YOUR SKIN KILL YOURSELF

Me: I don’t have a problem with trans people just living their lives, but I have a problem with “activism” that viciously group bullies women for “offenses” like talking about menstruation or defending her sexual agency.

Transactivists: KILL YOURSELF TERF SLUT BITCH I’LL RAPE YOU TO DEATH YOU’RE LESS OF A WOMAN THAN ANY OF US WHORE WHORE WHORE BITCH INCEL I HOPE YOUR SISTER DIES!

Me: ...

Transactivists: DIE TERF

Me: h

Transactivists: TERRRRRRRFFFFFFF 

Me: Transactivists include a disproportionate number of violent fanatics, and I’m going to report every one that verbally abuses or threatens me.

Transactivist I said this to: OMG you can’t just demonize people like that!

[secret-diary-of-an-fa]

Secret-Diary Attempts to Arbitrate Between Trans-Activism and Gender-Critical Radical Feminism. Yeah. This’ll End Well.

One of the most infuriating things about being a Person On The Internet is being forced by circumstance to form opinions on things you really, really don’t care about. It works like this: you see a lot of other people having opinions about something, and you try really, really hard not to form opinions of your own, because the issue they’re arguing over has nothing to do with you and is probably a storm in a teacup anyway. Unfortunately, you can’t help but mentally respond to the opinions everyone else is having, because they’re having them very loudly and in public spaces that you use to write and communicate. Before you know it, you’ve formed a carefully-considered view on something that you just wanted to ignore, and the only way to lance the boil is to write a blog entry about it. A blog entry that will probably invite five thousand tons of hatemail from both sides of the debate because it makes an effort to be moderate and to recognise the valid points of both sides, which people fucking hate for some reason. And so, with all that in mind, I’m about to try and put down my thoughts on Transactivism and Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism- two things that don’t involve me but which I’ve heard so much about that an opinion has glommed itself together in my mind-tank.

First of all, I’m socially liberal, in the classic sense of that term. Meaning that I think people should more or less be allowed to do and think what they like, so long as it doesn’t hurt other people. As such, I don’t generally have a problem with trans people. I don’t really care how any given person identifies provided they don’t expect me to use the word ‘genderfluid’ with a straight face (y’know, because ‘Gender Fluid’ sounds like a hastily-conceived euphemism for vaginal discharge).

Unfortunately, my general air of acceptance and live-and-let-live laissez-faire doesn’t extend to the nuttier fringes of trans-actvisism, because those nutty fringes really seem to hate radical feminists and- frankly, they just don’t deserve it. Not too long ago, in the yester-times, my sister wrote a short blog about how some parents and schools are encouraging young children to identify as trans, even though it’s a terrible idea because young children are prone to magical and transformative thinking and don’t have brains that are fully developed enough to think about the nuances of gender identity. My sister thought she wanted to be a boy until she grew up and realised she wasn’t trrans, she was just a butch lesbian. I didn’t even want to be human, and spent quite a lot of my childhood ‘identifying’ as an alien from a distant planet. Simply put, you risk doing more harm than good by assuming that any act of transformative thinking by a child is a sign of latent transgenderism, when its much more likely to be a child’s naturally experimentation with the concept of identity. Regardless of whether you agree with that chain of reasoning or not, you can presumably concur that it’s cogent, reasonable and comes from a place of wanting the best for the next generation, not from a place of hate. For daring to make this argument in a public forum, however, my sister received reams of hatemail from self-styled trans-activists using ‘TERF’ as an insult... included one guy who said that he hoped she got stabbed in the vagina. This seems to be part of a wider pattern of violent reactions of so-called TERFs. Did you know you can get T-shirts with fake ‘TERF blood’ on them, for example? To put it another way, the trans-activist community tends to overreact to mild criticism quite a lot. I’m naturally suspicious of this large, powerful group that explodes violently when confronted with even the lightest criticism.

Which brings me to TERFs. Are there horrible, transphobic TERFs who only want to use their feminism as an excuse to attack trans peeps? Yes. Do they represent the main bulk of gender-critical radical feminism? No. As far as I can tell, most TERFs are fairly normal people have no interest in invalidating or erasing trans identities. They just want ideological and liminal spaces for women who were born women and for some recognition of the continued existence of sex-based oppression (as separate from gender identification-based oppression). I’m not an expert or even any type of feminist, but that doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. Being a trans woman is a perfectly valid identity but it presumably entails a different set of experiences and identity issues to those confronted by women who were born as biological women. As such, its appropriate to have spaces that recognise that difference. Not everyone needs to be allowed access to every single cultural space. It’s okay to have different sections within the general discourse for different people with different issues.

None of this is to say that “TERFS = Good, Trans = bad”.That’s obviously not the case. Both groups have a mix of good people and irredeemable cunts. The problem is that the current, dominant cultural narrative ignores the sinister, mean spirited bastards in the trans-activist movement (and, in fact, gives them a free pas), while focusing exclusively on the worst excesses of gender-critical radical feminism. Instead of saying “here are two groups of people with good and bad points whose ideologies need to be discussed fairly and openly to find common ground”, the narrative says “all Trans people are good and noble and decent and all TERFs are saturday-morning cartoon villains with twirly mustaches”. And that’s an idiotic oversimplification. I don’t know whose side I’m on, in the final analysis, but I do know that no good can come out of a one-sided narrative that gives the worst people in one group a free pass while ignoring the more reasoned and thoughtful people in the other. I’m not completely for or against either group, but I am in favour of reasoned-discussion-without-contrived-argument and I am against excessively simplified cultural narratives.

ADDENDUM: Please don’t try to message me about this, or start a discussion in the reblogs. I’m annoyed that I even had to think about it this much. Also, don’t get your knickers in a twist over the ‘Gender Fluid’ joke- I’m not trying to invalidate your identity, it’s just a funny word.

[thearbourist]

Doing it to Themselves - Violent Transactivism - No place in a Civilized Society