Terf Is Actually Just A Distracting Buzzword Meant To Shut Down Women.

terf is actually just a distracting buzzword meant to shut down women.

never mind the fact that most a lot of us identified as trans at one point, never mind that most of us are gender abolitionists in vehement support of nonconformity. in my mind it is literally not possible to be transphobic when you don’t believe in gender (the construct) to begin with. gender has no meaning to us. how or why would we weaponize something that has no meaning? our focus is on how our sex affects us as an oppressed class, and how that fundamentally puts us in a different category of experience/oppression from trans-identified males. trans women simply are not materially female. that has meaning to us because our materiality is what makes us oppressed, sexualized, vulnerable to male violence, etc.

being exclusionary is just a part of radical feminism. we’re not on some mission to genocide trans people. we’re not a cartoon villain. we didn’t take some poisonous terf pill, our brains didn’t go into some internalized transphobia overdrive one day, we aren’t subhuman joyless beings who want trans women/men to suffer. we actually have non-transphobic rationale behind the things that we advocate for, a lot of people just don’t want to listen because they shut down at any whiff of invalidation. as if criticizing or questioning something can be inherently genocidal. like, it’s not. by that logic, considering femicide, the violent language tra’s direct at terfs is equally dangerous. telling us they hope we get raped, tortured, killed, choked to death, etc—i’ve seen really some really gruesome shit come from tra’s. and maybe there’s a reason for that, i don’t know, but i don’t think that kind of language towards women is ever justified.

to me, terf seems like a continuation of the concepts used to weaponize any expression of misandry or autonomy from females. terfs are like modern-day ‘hags’ or ‘witches’. i’m fine with carrying on that stereotype.