I feel the same now - call me whatever you want, I just don't believe in this shit. I'm a TERF, fine, great! I'm transphobic? Whatever, sure! These terms just sound like 'shut up, bitch' to me and I'm not playing on gender ideologues' terms, with language or anything else. I refer to myself as a TERF all the time, but the only exclusion we care about is getting men out of women's spaces.
I am so proud to be a TERF. So. Proud. I will never alter reality and disbelieve basic biology to cater to a few fetishists. I feel very very sorry for teens caught up in this mess who have now done irreversible damage to themselves but I will never be sorry for being a TERF.
I'm a radical feminist. I am exclusionary. However, I have resisted "TERF" due to the language of the thing. To say you're "trans-exclusionary" acknowledges "trans" as a real concept. You cannot exclude something that does not exist. However....I get your point!
As a normal, sex-at-birth man I say it’s great to see that the gender bullies are starting to get the recognition and consequent blowback they ‘deserve’ from the TERFs out there in the gender battleground. I say this partly out of natural bias towards ‘my group’, partly out of sympathy for all normal, enwombed women and partly out of resistance towards the ‘social terrorists’ that are Trans activists. Whilst a tiny percentage of the population might be ‘in the wrong body’ (however you define that - good luck with that) and feel that they should change bodies a lot of others - especially the bullying ones - are just ‘in it for the fight’ especially if it means a fight against (normal) women. I’m sure this notion has been posited before but I haven’t read it if it has. So, in effect, Trans activism is an organised form of hatefulness (of women by men, again) and a convenient vehicle for (naturally) male anarchists to ‘do their anarchist thing’.
Once you’ve got all normal women TERFs actively behind you you’ll probably find that most men will feel the same. Then we can collectively get the institutions to ‘toughen up’ against these anarchists and can start to consign this hateful perversion to the history books. But if we succeed we should not feel too jubilant as the next crowd of social terrorists will be coming at us. This time it will those demanding the right to have sex with children. Or is that only a few perverted (male, of course) Jews?
I wish that just the word “feminist” was enough to indicate that males don’t belong to the category of women (Julie Bindel thinks so, other feminists say the opposite). I think “TERF” centres trans people and makes its adherents fringe “radicals” so don’t like the term myself. I would prefer a woman-centred term. “Female At Birth” or something.
I feel the same now - call me whatever you want, I just don't believe in this shit. I'm a TERF, fine, great! I'm transphobic? Whatever, sure! These terms just sound like 'shut up, bitch' to me and I'm not playing on gender ideologues' terms, with language or anything else. I refer to myself as a TERF all the time, but the only exclusion we care about is getting men out of women's spaces.
I am so proud to be a TERF. So. Proud. I will never alter reality and disbelieve basic biology to cater to a few fetishists. I feel very very sorry for teens caught up in this mess who have now done irreversible damage to themselves but I will never be sorry for being a TERF.
Truthful. Erudite. Real. Female.
If it's good enough for JK Rowling, Meghan Murphy, and Dave Chappelle, it's good enough for me.
I'm a radical feminist. I am exclusionary. However, I have resisted "TERF" due to the language of the thing. To say you're "trans-exclusionary" acknowledges "trans" as a real concept. You cannot exclude something that does not exist. However....I get your point!
I love it! Thank you for joining us TERFs, Meaghan. Honored to have you among us. 🌹
As a normal, sex-at-birth man I say it’s great to see that the gender bullies are starting to get the recognition and consequent blowback they ‘deserve’ from the TERFs out there in the gender battleground. I say this partly out of natural bias towards ‘my group’, partly out of sympathy for all normal, enwombed women and partly out of resistance towards the ‘social terrorists’ that are Trans activists. Whilst a tiny percentage of the population might be ‘in the wrong body’ (however you define that - good luck with that) and feel that they should change bodies a lot of others - especially the bullying ones - are just ‘in it for the fight’ especially if it means a fight against (normal) women. I’m sure this notion has been posited before but I haven’t read it if it has. So, in effect, Trans activism is an organised form of hatefulness (of women by men, again) and a convenient vehicle for (naturally) male anarchists to ‘do their anarchist thing’.
Once you’ve got all normal women TERFs actively behind you you’ll probably find that most men will feel the same. Then we can collectively get the institutions to ‘toughen up’ against these anarchists and can start to consign this hateful perversion to the history books. But if we succeed we should not feel too jubilant as the next crowd of social terrorists will be coming at us. This time it will those demanding the right to have sex with children. Or is that only a few perverted (male, of course) Jews?
I wish that just the word “feminist” was enough to indicate that males don’t belong to the category of women (Julie Bindel thinks so, other feminists say the opposite). I think “TERF” centres trans people and makes its adherents fringe “radicals” so don’t like the term myself. I would prefer a woman-centred term. “Female At Birth” or something.