#ban the terfs and take care of the bugs

[hannibalussy]

tumblr looks at ao3 getting cash rained on them and says "how do i do the opposite" then comes out with an update

[ellismacvey]

No, I don't think y'all have nothing in common with conservative Christians. I think y'all have a lot of surface level distinctions, but when it comes to advocacy the main focus is always on trans people.

The idea that "radfems" (I make a distinction between radfems and TERFs because they aren't the same thing) aren't anti-adult trans people is absurd on its face. I refuse to humor this notion. Maybe you personally don't have a problem with me, but you are the exception. Every single other TERF I've met has had a huge bug up their ass about people like me existing at all and Janice Raymond, the person behind the Transsexual Empire aka the foundational TERF text that you cannot disavow because it is the literal origin of your movement, explicitly calls in the Transsexual Empire to "morally mandate [trans people] out of existence" by - you guessed it - banning gender-affirming care for all ages.

Also, if you acknowledge that gender dysphoria is real, then why are you opposed to giving medically necessary and provably effective treatments with little if any side effects such as social transition and puberty blockers to children? I can understand the hesitancy around hormones and especially gender-affirming surgeries, but this seems inconsistent.

As for enforcing gender roles, I acknowledged that the TERF movement does give lip service to supporting gender nonconforming people, however attacking transgender people does have the side-effect of harming gender nonconforming people because quite honestly you're using all of the same tropes to attack us that are used to attack them unless you're exclusively focusing on the medical aspects, which most TERFs... really don't.

It's sort of like how the "LGBDropTheT" people don't get why the LGBT/Queer (I know people get upset at me for using that word but it was originally created by us and only appropriated by homophobes, I have a right to take it back) community includes trans people and think we're some sort of new addition even though we were in the acronym since there was an acronym, back when it was "GLBT" instead of "LGBT". Society, especially religious conservative society, views all of us as an diseased blob of sexual degeneracy coming for their children, so it's only natural that we'd form a united front.

As for the last question, I'd reccomend watching "JK Rowling's New Friends" by Shaun. I know you said she was more of a conservative than a radical feminist, but you literally named yourself after a Hogwarts Legacy character so by your logic you yourself are an example of the phenomenon I'm referring to.

I agree that being Gender Critical does not make you a feminist, however the Gender Critical movement is an ideological outgrowth of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism with exactly the same beliefs and rhetoric on trans people, so I think it's fair to say that y'all have allied with the far right specifically because there are so many anti-abortion, pro-nuclear family, pro-"traditional values" GCs. What did y'all expect to happen?

A far better version of my thoughts on how GCs recruit young people to their hate cult.

I’m not gonna be nice. It’s basically a cult now.

Young queer/LGBT girls, the leaders are working with the Heritage Foundation. They’re not just gonna turn on you, they want all AFABs to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

[theladythecla]

Lotta trans discussions on my campus lately. Thoughts to follow on the authoritarianism of the Left with regards to trans ideology after the cut.

Undergrads came aboard to our law building and basically were shouting down this poor conservative guy who was just being honest about biology. They were sitting on the desks, the whole nine yards. The guy himself was well-informed and rational. He even mentioned the radical feminist discussion on trans ideology in a neutral manner [which is good, since I’m sure we disagree on a lot]. He mentioned the fear that women may have of men if they’ve survived severe sexual assault and abuse [a supposedly progressive dude, unsurprisingly, snorted at that notion]. You know things are bad when a self-purported alt-right guy gets to be the voice of reason, while women are censored as TERFs and banned outright from campuses for saying the same thing. Anyway, these kids were interrupting and shouting the poor author down. It got so bad that I had to, at one point, just shout: “Will you please let him talk?” At hearing one of their own, they seemed to calm down a little bit. [The student group that organized the event repeatedly asked for civility and for questions to occur at the end of the talk.]

I had to leave the talk early, so I missed the Q&A. But, after that event, the queer student group [I know, bug them, not me] had a talk with trans-identified males on the panel. One could pass out of the four total. There was one trans-identified female [which should tell you SOMETHING about who gets screen time and when in that movement].

Anyway, I thought: Cool, I’ll go to this panel too, be “balanced.” The undergrads weren’t sitting on the tables here, nor shouting anyone down. Nor could you ask any really critical questions of the movement, though. I wanted to ask why they were conflating sex and gender. I wanted to ask what it meant to be a woman when anyone who identifies as one is one. I especially wanted to talk to the passing trans-woman and get her take on the locker room discussion. But, that would be transphobic.

It is also transphobic to use the wrong pronouns or disagree with this ideology in a vocal manner, and the trans-identified female said that the university she worked at was trying to stop speech like that on their campuses. I had to snort a little when she was all, “I don’t see how that’s [dissenting viewpoints] NOT hate speech.” Hate speech... is very strictly and narrowly confined in US First Amendment law. Perhaps earlier in the term [before I got far in that course], I would’ve agreed with her. These days, though... I gotta say, the right is right [heh, puns] on this one. It is a slippery slope. You can endorse certain views, and private schools have more leverage than public ones, but the reality is that criticism of a movement is not hate speech.

I mean, I’ve also attended some reproductive rights talks these past few weeks. The female attorneys always talk about women’s liberties, usually, but the “queer theorists” are so keen on erasing women that it hurts. “Pregnant people,” “pregnant folks,” and “pregnant men” keep cropping up. I just can’t believe people think that sex is something you can change by identifying out of it. I don’t care about your GENDER identity. If your gender is a unicorn, go for it [I think that’s nonsense, but go for it], just don’t expect people to tell you that sexually you are a unicorn and conform with your internal sense of self. That’s not how the real world works. It used to be trans folks had no issue with differing between sex and gender [biology versus social identity]. Sad to see how fast that’s changed in the span of a few, short years.