Unless you use your anger in your art
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Good point.
Rumour has it a German officer asked Picasso, did you do this?
He replied âNo, you didâŚâ
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Yes. TDOR, NCAVP, and Mic.com.
And in American Journal of Public Health: Homicide Rates of Transgender Individuals in the United States: 2010â2014
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Late to the party, but hereâs one of my favorite trans notables. I mean, youâd guess whyâŚshe was an artist.
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Money quote:
Justin F. Robinette, a local civil-rights attorney whoâs following the Doe case, questioned why Penn initially took an anti-trans position. âIâm glad to see Penn is correcting course and wonât be actively complicit in trying to roll back LGBT protections,â Robinette told PGN. âBut the question should be asked that if Penn were fully committed to LGBT nondiscrimination, why would Penn take such a position in the first place?â
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Love that sci-fi style pic at the top.
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This may be a silly question, but Iâve seen a lot of people bash trans people, and be called TERFs for doing so. How can you be a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist without being a radical feminist?
How can you call yourself a feminist at all if you donât advocate for the rights of Trans women? Trans women are women, period.
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That is not particularly complicated⌠How about radically including all sisters. Period. Full stop. That strikes me as a far more âradicalâ solution than excluding the precise people that conservatives want us to exclude. Much like white feminists before them, these are no more than dupes for the white male patriarchy. I refuse to allow them the privilege of defining what is or isnât a feminist, much less a radical one, when they embrace such a backward, self-defeating, and bigoted position.
Or as @Nightflyer eloquently put itâŚ
Spot on. These are not real feminists, they are bigots.
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Donât worry. No oneâs calling you a feminist.
If someone calls you a TERF, theyâre giving you the benefit of the doubt. Otherwise a person is just a trans-exclusionary bigot.
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Itâs even worse than that. British TERFs sided with the anti-abortion side of the 2018 Irish abortion referendum because most of the pro-choice feminists in Ireland are also pro-trans. They would rather cause suffering to cis women than be seen having any association with trans people.
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Just to add to that.
TV: Thereâs a foreshadowing scene early on where Ofglen asks Offred if sheâd mind walking along the river on the way back home from their errands. Ofglen wants to see the Wall, where the authorities display those who have been executed. When they arrive at the Wall, Ofglen is drawn to the hanging corpse of someone who was LGBTQ. Can you talk about that scene and how you think it fits in with current events and contemporary culture?
MA: Absolutely. Gender treachery. Thatâs what theyâre getting Ofglen for in the TV series. And there are people writing this stuff, now! Now theyâre doing it! Itâs about transgender people mostly, and they donât exactly call it treachery, but theyâre having none of it. You saw what the Trump administration did [to repeal trans peopleâs protections]. And if you want a take on why people get so popped up about it, itâs because it challenges their roles. So if thereâs somebody who can change from being a man to a woman or a woman to a man, what does that make them? From whence derives their authority? When things are so wobbly, it makes them very insecure.
TERFs are leading us to Gilead.
https://planettransgender.com/terfs-and-focus-on-the-family-partner-to-attack-transgender-rights/
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To quote the wikipedia article on Radical Feminism,
Radical feminists locate the root cause of womenâs oppression in patriarchal gender relations, as opposed to legal systems (as in liberal feminism) or class conflict (as in anarchist feminism, socialist feminism, and Marxist feminism).
So, to accuse a trans bashing person, or even a trans bashing feminist as a TERF, youâd ideally have established that the person concerned agrees with the radical feminist critique of the patriarchy, and doesnât subscribe to a more milquetoasty version of feminism. But apparently itâs grown from that quite specific usage.
Kind of weird to see Clinton described as a radical feminist.
OH. Yes. Iâm sure wikipedia knows more about feminism than the actual women youâre talking to. Or that itâs a platform that you can 100% trust to give you a good definition of a controversial topic. Sure. /s
TERFS are EXCLUDING women from the CATEGORY of women. Thatâs not radical, itâs reactionary. Thatâs in alignment with the right wing drive to purify the body politic of all elements that challenge notions of traditional gender and racial rolls. Plenty of TERFS are willing to get into bed with the religious right and the racial right, and are therefore at odds with ending the patriarchy that oppresses.
She is not. She is a political figure willing to embrace whatever language is handy to get her ahead.
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In this case, the radicalism refers to the exclusionary bit, not the feminist part. It really isnât that difficult for a person familiar with the behaviour of TERFs to parse out, unless you want it to be.
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Anarcha-feminism isnât milquetoasty
And the term TERF was created by trans inclusive radical feminists, to stop the TERFs from taking radical feminism away from them.
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Sorry, but thatâs one language game Iâm not willing to play.
By definition, a feminist stands for the rights if all women, everywhere. These gentlepeople donât fit that criteria, no matter how much they may try to claim it. Iâm perfectly willing to call them Trans Exclusionary Radical Fascists instead, if that would please you, since theyâre bound and determined to impose their limited, narrow-minded concept of what is and isnât female on everyone around them.
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Describe a trans bashing person. As it functions - many of these persons work with conservative orgs like the Federalist etc to use their âconcernâ for women as a cudgel to beat trans people. They have no interest in any civil rights movement for the most part.
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I like to cite my sources of misinformation so that they can be more directly refuted.
This article, from the transadvocate
describes the TERFs as âradiical feminists.â Itâs from 2013, so maybe the the acronym has been retconned since.
