Suffragettes didn't just fight for women's voting rights.
They fought for the right for women to own property, domestic violence protections, the right to initiate divorce, the right to have legal standing in courts, the right to obtain guardianship of their children during instances of divorce.
I'm sure you've heard men complain about women always getting custody in court, but prior to World War I, in cases of separation, men obtained guardianship of kids.
The right to an equal education, domestic violence protections, the right to not just vote but run for political office, advocating against the prostitution of women.
Here's a suffragette trying to persuade a sea of men about these things:
Only humans can be women. You are some other female thing. But you still can’t identify out of having a pussy 🤔🤔 rape threats won’t make you a man. Am I supposed to be scared of your vajayjay?
“You will never be a woman” lmao it’s nice to be affirmed as a trans man. Transphobia failed successfully
did anyone else see the edward snowden interview in the guardian about two days ago where he said that most of the NSA agents doing checks through people’s data are men aged 18-22 and that when they access photographs of attractive women naked they all send them to each other for reasons that are 100% not professional
like, if you have naked selfies on your phone, even if you have never sent them to anyone or moved them anywhere, these fucking mouthbreathers could be downloading them and sending them to all their friends
I feel like "trump wants to throw away literal dinosaur fossils" would really turn heads if we actually had a functional opposition party in this country to get messages out, but I guess I'll just have to get a paint pen and write it on my car. fine, I'll do it.
anti-detrans ppl will be like "if you, as a teenager, got involved with a community constantly telling you that you'll kill yourself by the age of 30 unless you medically transition, you're a gullible fucking moron for letting that convince you to transition. also we CANNOT allow detransitioners to share their stories because they might influence some people not to transition" and not see any contradiction between those two sentiments
Things I support:
dysphoric people (trans or not)
getting dysphoric people access to better healthcare
getting transitioning people access to better healthcare
getting trans people healthcare which presents treatment for dysphoria and transition as options and does not pressure anyone to do anything
scientific research into the health risks and long-term effects of various aspects of transitioning (binding, hormone therapy, psychological patterns, etc.)
safety and autonomy of trans people
detransitioned people
Things I do not support:
males in female spaces
female spaces being compromised into free-for-all “gender neutral” spaces (while male spaces are left untouched)
medically transitioning children
lesbians & gay men have to be “open to” dating transwomen/transmen respectively or they’re transphobic
lesbians & gay men should “re-examine” their “genital fetishes” (i.e. DIY conversion therapy)
presenting medical transition as the only route for dysphoric people
pressuring dysphoric and/or gender-nonconforming people to identify as trans
erasing gender-nonconforming women like joan of arc from women’s history by claiming they were transmen
erasing gay figures like marsha p. johnson from gay rights history by claiming they were trans
rapists, murderers and predators who hold (or held) positions of influence in the trans movement (biko, rivers, alok, etc etc)
“centering” males in female reproductive rights
silencing female issues to cater to transwomen’s feelings
silencing victims of male trans people in the interest of “not making transwomen look bad”
violent and/or intimidating protests, no-platforming, other intimidation tactics, as an attempt to ban women’s writing, silence women’s dissenting voices, and erase women’s achievements
people identifying as trans based on gender stereotypes, outdated notions of “brain sex,” or nebulous feelings rather than sex dysphoria
transwomen being allowed to pretend they were not socialized male
transwomen being allowed to pretend they do not, and have never held male privilege
transmen’s experiences with female socialization and sex-based oppression being silenced and transmen being thrown under the bus in order to make the previous two points appear legitimate
pushing false statistics, lies, and strawman arguments to demonize anyone who questions trans theory
“TERF”
subsequent TERF witch-hunts, block lists, demanding that no one so much as hear what radical feminists have to say and instead blindly accept a strawman version of what we believe
ostracizing and bullying of anyone who expresses curiosity about radical feminist ideas, reveals that they’ve read radical feminist blogs, or so much as reblogs memes from radical feminists
denial of basic biology
denial of basic sociology
denial of sex-based oppression
TERFs posting about FGM, breast ironing, femicide, honor killings, the violent oppression of Afghani women and girls that the world ignores, anti-feminism and rape culture in East Asia, sex tourism, child marriage, rape/sexual exploitation of refugee and immigrant women, violence against indigenous women and the police/media complicity, grooming gangs, the rape crisis in India, domestic violence/murder of women by their partners in the Black community, the high maternal mortality rate and medical mistreatment of Black women, prostitution and sex trafficking, the Palestinian genocide, rape and violence committed by the American military against foreign women………..
Libfems: Trans women are women and if your feminism doesn’t include them then it’s not real feminism and also your innate sexual orientation is transphobic and gynophilic and you need to unpack that and also yes men should have access to all our spaces you bigot and trans women are the MOST vulnerable women in the world like the MOST vulnerable ever
TRA try not to be wrong for 2 seconds challenge (failed)
Maybe if they actually looked at any TERFs post they'd see it's NOT all about white women.
Of course, sometimes it's going to be about white women, but it's NOT JUST about white women. Common sense is out the window with these tra.
TIL feminists in Sweden used to throw Molotov cocktails at porn advertisement carsđź’€