#anti-terf

[mothman4life]

i get that the barbie movie didn’t show a lot of gender nonconformity or diversity with its characters outside of weird barbie and allan but the emphasis on barbies and kens not having gendered sex organs means that all of these very traditionally presenting men and women still don’t meet the terf criteria to be a man or woman because it’s an oversimplistic and reductionary way to define gender

[sick-thing]

Idk what radfem needs to hear this but calling a vagina a "disgusting stinky bleeding open axe-wound" is something misogynistic men have been doing since like the middle ages and it doesn't suddenly become #feminist when you use it to refer to a trans woman's genitals

[systemdeez]

It's crazy that terfs sent feminism back like 30 years.

[frickyesforumweapons]

[princessefemmelesbian]

A PSA

Okay I normally don't make posts about TERFs like these because I prefer to reblog them from trans people who know more about this stuff then I do but I just gotta say this, and if I'm being for fucking real I can't believe this even has to be said:

Stop posting screenshots of TERF posts and saying "op was a terf so I'm stealing this post! 🤪"

Seriously, stop it. You're not doing anything good by taking TERF talking points and reposting them to your blog. All you're doing is allowing TERF rhetoric to continue to spread and sanitizing it so that people become desensitized to it and don't recognize actual TERF rhetoric when they see it.

When you screenshot a TERF post and say "op was a TERF" all you are doing is validating TERF points whether you agree with them or not. Because every post a TERF makes, even if it seems benign, is connected to their rotten, transmisogynist ideology. You cannot divorce TERF statements from their true intentions. I think a lot of TMEs on this site really underestimate the fact that TERF is a harmful hate movement. Every statement a TERF makes, even if it seems harmless or actually feminist, is ultimately going to be tarnished by the fact that they are made with the intention of targeting trans women and wanting them dead. If a post is about how men are awful or are "raised" to be a certain way and is made by a TERF, then congratulations, you just found transmisogynistic rhetoric that is actually about trans women and their apparent "male socialization". If a post is about how lesbians should be allowed to not like men and how men are forcing themselves onto lesbians, but a TERF made it, then it's not actually a lesbian-friendly post. It is a transphobic post about how transfem lesbians apparently "prey" on cis lesbians(which they also think straight trans men are, let's make that very clear) by merely existing. Same for any post about the word queer or the beauty industry or periods or anything of the like. Even if they don't explicitly say it, TERFs are inherently lumping trans women in with(cishet) men and trans men in with women/lesbians and THAT is the true meaning of the post. You're not making it any better by reposting it from them.

TERFs know exactly how to make their posts seemingly benign and genuinely positive on the surface so that people get sucked in to thinking that they are truly for the feminist cause and actually have good points to make. But all of it ultimately serves the purpose of continuing transmisogyny, and when you post screenshots of their posts and go "I really wanted to reblog this post but op was a terf so I'm stealing it! 😇" all you are doing is giving terfs a platform and saying that we should listen to them. You're exposing trans women to beliefs and opinions of people who ultimately wish to harm them and do NOT have the same innocent intentions that you believe they have from looking at the post at first glance. You are not helping women. You are not helping feminism. You're internalizing TERF rhetoric, and you're allowing other people to internalize it, too.

It's one thing if you don't realize a post was made by a TERF before you reblog it, and then you delete it afterwards. But if you know someone is a TERF and intentionally repost their vile, sickening rhetoric wrapped up in pink feminist bows and go "I like the message of this post but op is a terf so 🤷🏾‍♀️" then you may as well be reblogging it directly from them, because you're still agreeing with TERFs at the end of the day.

What can you do instead? You can reblog feminist posts from amazing and intellectual trans women who actually are genuine about the cause and actually know what they're saying. They have way better views on feminism and misogyny and lesbophobia and the patriarchy then a radfem who thinks woman=vagina and man=penis ever will, trust me. Uplift their voices instead of stealing from conservative hate groups. It really is that simple.

[dontcallm3ang3l]

friendly reminder not to follow me or reblog from me if you're a radfem blog. your ideology is toxic and I want nothing to do with you. get well soon.

[werewolf-cuddles]

All I have to say to TERFs who are bitching and moaning about trans men being forced to compete with cis women because they lobbied so hard against letting trans athletes compete with other people of the same gender is this;

Congratulations, you're angry about a problem that is quite literally your fault. You reap what you sow.

[raccoonzinspace]

Trans people are 100% valid and a bunch of lovely human beings. :D

[yeltsinsstar]

Anti-trans activist Posie Parker escorted out of Auckland rally, hit by soup

I am so proud of where our country is headed, despite the efforts of the terfs & fascists. Kia kaha & much aroha to our lgbtqai+ community.

[cocklessboy]

Why the fuck did a bunch of TERF/radfems follow my blog and start reblogging my medical misogyny post? I'm literally transgender. You can all go fucking die in a fire. If you don't think trans people are valid and should be allowed to do whatever they fuck they want with their hormones, bodies, and legal gender, not to mention use whatever fucking bathroom they want, or if you think being male or having a penis makes someone inherently dangerous or violent or aggressive, or if you think you're in any way entitled to know what other people's genitals look like, or any other even remotely terfy bullshit, GET THE FUCK OFF MY BLOG, YOU HORRID FASCIST FUCKS.

[moonlightserenadeeznutz]

I can’t get over how badly written Harry Potter as a character was. Like I could go into an essay about how his upbringing should have effected him in far more complex ways than was written about, or how he experienced no proper character development because he went into the story the same way as he left the story etc etc but my main thing rn is just the fact that... this kid was literally abused and manipulated by authority figures at every turn of his life and he grew up?? Conforming to those authority figures?? He just became an auror and entered society as a perfectly well-adjusted, conformist, law-abiding citizen?? That sucks so fucking much and just doesn’t feel realistic at all. Harry could have been so much cooler had he not been written by a fucking terf conservative. He wasn’t rebellious at all, he was an average skinny white guy who would literally bully me if he got the chance.

In reality, Harry should have fucking REBELLED against the system. In my mind he’s a gnc stoner who sucks dick for money. My guy plays the drums and listens to fucking screamo music. He has tattoos on his top surgery scars. He makes out with guys at the bar. Everyone is wrong about him especially his own fucking author oh my GOD I can’t believe this bitch tried to pretend to us that she was progressive in any fucking way it’s actually so sad and hilarious. Okay ma’am I see you making Hermione Granger Minister for Magic to tick the Hollywood box of “women can be in power too!” It’s a shame your little feminist message is undermined by the fact that all your female characters are married and with children by the time they’re thirty.

Anyway I think this post got away from me. Point is. Harry is a trans man actually.

[grimm-the-tiger]

I’d rather share a bathroom with a trans woman than a TERF. Trans women are less obsessed with my genitalia. 

[lastoneout]

Not to go on and on about JKR but if anyone here still doubted the veracity of the "queer is a slur" to terf to white supremacist pipeline here's all the proof you should fucking need. (I mean it's really an "ace/aro people aren't oppressed" to "nonbinary people aren't trans" to "no kink at pride" to "queer is a slur" to radfem/terf to white supremacist pipeline but still.)

[aseriesofunfortunatejan]

My relationship, as a cis woman, to accepting, understanding and reclaiming my gender identity is not that different from that of a trans person's. By that I don't mean "so basically I struggle just as much as a trans person 😌" - I mean "TERFs are seriously getting it wrong".

There is no divorcing gender studies from feminism nor from transgender activism. Anyone who is discriminated against on the basis of their gender/their gender identity is fighting the same fight. It's obvious to many of us - cis women have a subset of experience to empathise directly with genderqueer people.

"Why is it that I like my hair better short?" and "Why is it that people view me differently when my hair is short?"

"I want to wear whatever clothes I feel happiest wearing" and "People make a judgement about me based on the clothes I wear"

I didn't ask myself those questions because the TransGenders™ made me. I grew up with no choice but to ask them - because I cut my hair short not even knowing that people would have an opinion on that, because I grab whichever clothes are closest to the top of the pile the majority of the time. I didn't come to the conclusion that I am a woman "naturally" because "biology" - I came to that conclusion after having no choice but to ask myself those questions. It's commonly discussed that a girl growing up in Western society has no choice but to ask herself what makes her a girl, because the image of an idealised "woman" which does not exist is constantly being sold to us. And I cheer to the "not like other girls" girls who later realised all those feelings were due to not even being a girl in the first place, just as much as I cheer for all the "not like other girls" girls who eventually concluded that they're the real girl, not the made-up concept that's on all the billboards.

It doesn't really matter that we reached a different conclusion, that we are different people (God forbid!). What is evident is that we all suffered unfairly and for the same (stupid) reasons.

When I officially changed my name for reasons unrelated to gender identity, I accidentally wound up choosing a name that is even more feminine than my old one. And yet no one celebrated it - my requesting that they call me a different name bothered them, regardless the reason.

Despite being a cis woman, people are constantly putting my gender identity into question. Having short, "masculine" hair automatically means regularly hearing "it's unusual to see you wearing a dress" even though you've worn dresses all summer long, every year for many years. It means regularly hearing "I assume you don't wear make-up" from people who only ever see you inside your house, and a few times a year at that. People have a set idea of your gender and gender presentation ingrained in their mind. It is not objective. I am the only one who actually knows I'm a woman - to everyone else I am something different - I am "someone who messes with gender".

Not by choice. And identifying with the gender that happens to be socially associated to the genitals I have is doing very little to change my experience.

We, as feminists, are fighting for our right to challenge gender norms. Our right to have short hair (despite the expectation that it should be long), our right not to bear children (despite the expectation), our right to do anything a man does (despite the expectation), etc. To say "except if you're trans" at the end of that paragraph would be nothing short of silly. We are being discriminated on the basis of our gender identity, on the basis of our gender presentation, using the same tools. Our enemy is the same. We are walking in the same direction, with the same goals. To our enemy, we are the same, and it would be beneficial if we wasted our time fighting each other, weakening our troops.

"What is even a woman anymore?" asked some man in the 19th century upon seeing one of those "women's rights activists" wearing trousers. Is that who you identify with most?

[hellyeahheroes]

J.K. Rowling Is Just a Misogynistby Kat Blaque

[wrenswreath]

"gender as a social construct should be criticised" and "trans people are valid" can and should co-exist at the same time.