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Most of their ideas—like that trans women are a threat to cisgender women’s safety—are based on cherry-picked cases...their ideology doesn’t allow for trans people to have self-definition or any autonomy over their gender expression.| @voxdotcom
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To understand who TERFs are and what they’ve been up to for the past 50 years...their alliance with these far-right groups could have lasting, widespread consequences for trans civil rights—and for the rights of women in general.| @voxdotcom
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TERF: Anti-trans feminists call it a slur despite what many see as an accurate description of their beliefs.
They now prefer to call themselves gender critical—a euphemism akin to white supremacists calling themselves race realists.| @voxdotcom
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They now prefer to call themselves gender critical—a euphemism akin to white supremacists calling themselves race realists.| @voxdotcom
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TERF ideology has become the de facto face of feminism in the UK helped along by media leadership...Any vague opposition to gender-critical thought in the UK brings along accusations of “silencing women” & a splashy feature or op-ed.| @voxdotcom
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Anti-trans feminists think they have science on their side. It’s bananas how ascientific their rhetoric is—yet literally they say: Biology isn’t bigotry.
In fact, biology has been used as bigotry as long as biology has been a thing.| @voxdotcom
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In fact, biology has been used as bigotry as long as biology has been a thing.| @voxdotcom
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Though TERFism got its start in the US in the 70s, the ideology has largely fallen out of favor as the country’s mainstream feminist movement has continuously battled against the religious right for abortion access & LGBTQ rights.| @voxdotcom
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While the hardcore in-person gender-critical organizing is largely run by a small handful of people, it has become sport...to harass and mock trans people and their allies on Twitter and other social media platforms.| @voxdotcom
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Gender-critical feminism, at its core, opposes the self-definition of trans people, arguing that anyone born with a vagina is in its own oppressed sex class, while anyone born with a penis is automatically an oppressor.| @voxdotcom
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GC feminists blame the patriarchy for deluding trans men into thinking they can identify out of female oppression, or blame structural homophobia for convincing trans men they can become straight men rather than lesbians.| @voxdotcom
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For anti-trans activists, establishing a narrative that trans men are really just lesbians attempting to identify out of womanhood is absolutely essential.| @voxdotcom
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However, trans men themselves have pointed out that the argument fails to take into account the bodily autonomy of transmasculine people and it is therefore not a feminist position.| @voxdotcom
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Non-binary people & GC Feminists: Nonbinary people muddle the scientism that anti-trans feminists rely on to justify their gender essentialism, so they choose not to acknowledge [nonbinary] existence or agency.| @voxdotcom
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GC feminists refuse to contend w the fact that 47% of trans women have been victims of sexual assault...many trans people don’t see how such questioning is any different from cis men who claim women are falsely accusing men of rape.| @voxdotcom
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Concern for cis women & children has become the primary method for radicalizing GC feminists, like Islamophobes playing up threats of gang rape of women by Muslim men, or white supremacists painting black men as sexual threats.| @voxdotcom
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GC feminism defends the purity of white womanhood...w stranger danger drilled into the heads of women & girls from a young age, anti-trans feminists can easily paint “the other” as a constant sexual threat.| @voxdotcom
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With its hyperfocus on the supposed threat of trans women in women’s spaces, gender-critical feminism ultimately lets misogynistic men slide under the radar.| @voxdotcom
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GC philosophy has become a sort of cottage industry where previously unheralded academics can achieve an online following by reciting the theory du jour in online radical feminist spaces.| @voxdotcom
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They imagined earlier on that it was going to be quite easy to use chromosomes as a basis for a kind of biological sex distinction, binary sex distinction...they’ve now abandoned chromosomes as a singular determinant.| @voxdotcom
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Not every item of personal and ideological obsession is worthy of philosophical debate...scepticism about the rights of marginalised groups and individuals, where issues of life and death are at stake, are not up for debate.| @voxdotcom
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GC Group WoLF defended a recent blog post that attacked Planned Parenthood’s commitment to trans-inclusive care...There is little call to any “feminist” issue that isn’t an attack on trans people at its core.| @voxdotcom
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Anti-trans alliances w conservative groups are not new. During the Irish referendum on abortion rights in 2018, GCFs withheld support for campaigners who supported abortion rights, citing the trans supportive attitudes of Irish feminism.| @voxdotcom
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The deployment of so-called feminists to oppose trans rights [is comparative] to the white nationalist movement rebranding themselves as the alt-right to achieve a veneer of respectability.| @voxdotcom
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GCFs employ the diversionary tactic of spouting inaccuracies, forcing those engaged in debate to constantly refute them, rather than engage with the real issues.| @voxdotcom
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Several prominent TERF/GCFs have themselves denounced the movement’s cooperation with archconservatives...But those appeals haven’t appeared to slow down the merging of TERFism with the larger conservative political apparatus.| @voxdotcom
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It remains to be seen whether Mumsnet will remain the epicenter for GC-messaging, but the movement’s growing connections with anti-abortion and violent misogynist movements should concern both cisgender and transgender women.| @voxdotcom
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Newest GC wave:
Nearly every major US feminist advocacy group is vocally pro-trans rights...they understand what it means to be marginalized. They understand that any strict rules placed around gender are to the benefit of nobody.| @voxdotcom
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Nearly every major US feminist advocacy group is vocally pro-trans rights...they understand what it means to be marginalized. They understand that any strict rules placed around gender are to the benefit of nobody.| @voxdotcom
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Conservative groups have made a conscious decision to use feminist language & framing to oppose trans rights...the most vehemently anti-woman politicians voted against the Violence Against Women Act claiming to protect women & girls.| @voxdotcom
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It’s more important to TERFs to put cis women in a stricter box and enforce sex-based dress codes than it is to give trans women equal employment rights. And if TERFs prevail, then all women and nonbinary people lose.| @voxdotcom
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An example of GCF freedom fighters:
They are going to a trans womans place of work to intimidate and bully her for her work at Human Rights Campaign.
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They are going to a trans womans place of work to intimidate and bully her for her work at Human Rights Campaign.
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This unholy alliance—backed up with academic scholarship written by TERFs—could end up having devastating consequences to the standing of women and girls in the US and across the globe.| @voxdotcom
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If you feel at all threatened or triggered by the language in this thread—first take a look at yourself in the mirror—then realise I am quoting the article.
It has an answer to every propaganda tactic that will be used in the comments &/or silence
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It has an answer to every propaganda tactic that will be used in the comments &/or silence
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Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people.| @TrevorProject
#Pride Ally
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/
#Pride Ally
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/
This is an introductory educational resource that covers a wide range of topics and best practices on how to support transgender and nonbinary people.| @TrevorProject
#Pride Allies https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/trevor-support-center/a-guide-to-being-an-ally-to-transgender-and-nonbinary-youth/
#Pride Allies
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/trevor-support-center/a-guide-to-being-an-ally-to-transgender-and-nonbinary-youth/
