Over the last few months the acronym TERF has become popular among many transactivists.
I have heard it stands for: Trans Excluding Radical Feminists.
That reading is somewhat problematic. It presumes that the Radical Feminists merely want to exclude trans-women from places like the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and certain conferences.
Noxious and offensive as that form of exclusion might be it is a big world and there are places we can go, events and festivals who have never heard of such a hateful, bigoted form of exclusion.
Indeed most transsexual and transgender people could lead full and happy lives without ever having anything to do with these few festivals and conferences.
Don’t want me or my people at you festival… Okay… Piss off, I have other festivals I can go to with much better music. Places where I’m welcome. It’s not like it is fun hanging out with a bunch of bigots worrying if some have read my writing and know I’m trans.
As for conferences. Unless I’m comped in I can’t afford conferences. After the 1970s they got so expensive that I’ve been to exactly one since 1980 and that was “Forward Motion, an F to M Conference nearly fifteen years ago.
So exclusion isn’t a big deal.
The TERFs are not about exclusion. They don’t want TS/TG folks excluded. They want us eliminated. they want us exterminated.
Don’t believe me. Read their fucking literature. Start with Raymond. Then the viper from Australia, Sheila Jeffreys.
The ideology of Gender and Transgender is pretty damned sketchy at best and down right cultish at times. I don’t generally buy into it. I figure that like gay and lesbian people we are born this way. End of story. There shouldn’t be a need for TS/TG people to explain why or a requirement that we show some sort of proof of our having been born this way.
Our rights and claims of equality should be treated as inalienable, just as everyone no matter sex, race, sexuality.
I for one have never really been able to figure out what “Radical Feminists” stand for. Mainly they seem to stand in the negative as opposition to so many things including heterosexuality.
John Irving pretty much nailed them in The World According To Garp. Look up the Ellen Jamisons. A group of Radical feminists who cut out their own tongues in solidarity with a woman who was raped and had her tongue cut out.
They deny being essentialists yet are such believers in total genetically determined absolutism as to make the authors of those silly books about women being from Venus and men from Mars look like total gender abolitionists.
All gender is the product of indoctrination during which male infants and female infants are raised in absolute isolation from each other and are never exposed to anything that might allow them to adopt anything supposedly designated for the other sex.
The TERFs engage in incredible blood libels.
All trans-women are sexual predators who only want to use the women’s rest room to rape is but one of those blood libels.
They are absolutely shameless in applying that blood libel. They even place it upon five and six year old transkids.
Heaven forbid those children be allowed to transition and have the same sort of youth and early life experiences normborn kids have.
They perpetuate the Big Green Lie. Dr. Richard Green ran an anti-sissy boy “reparative therapy” program. The one that made the sketch claim that the sissy boys he treated were cured and didn’t grow up TS/TG. Of course there never seemed to be any sort of long term follow up study that may have included data on suicides or folks coming out in middle age.
According to TERFs transkids should receive reparative therapy that will help them to adjust to being their birth sex and its essential gender rather than assistance in transitioning at a young age.
Ever since I came out nearly 45 years ago I have listened to these creeps imagine away my right to exist.
One of their biggest lies is that in a less gender/sex role constricted world transsexual and transgender people wouldn’t exist.
They also perpetuate the big lie that we are mentally ill and therefore should not receive medical assistance that furthers our “fantasy.”
Basically one gets the impression from reading “Gendertrender” and other “RadFem” blogs and books that they would cheerfully put us in camps and exterminate us.
That my friends is not Exclusionist. that is Exterminationist.
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