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    That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

    (Thread, probably...) Thinking today about women who use the word 'TERF', and rail against women who aren't 'nice' about trans issues.

    2:09 AM - 4 Oct 2017
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      2. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        My honest take is this: if you've not been called a TERF yet, it's not that you aren't one, it's just that they haven't found you out yet.

        1 reply 18 retweets 87 likes
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      3. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        I mean, you do realise that many, many TERFs (me included) didn't start out this way? We started out as trans allies / wannabe 'nice' women.

        12 replies 17 retweets 80 likes
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      4. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        We took trans testimony at face value, accepted trans people (almost always males) as individuals, tried to just get along and play nice.

        1 reply 7 retweets 58 likes
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      5. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        But at some point, what we were doing wasn't good enough. Maybe we wanted space for women who were born women. Or biological women. Female.

        2 replies 9 retweets 64 likes
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      6. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        That's transphobic. Maybe we wanted to talk about vaginas, and periods, and PCOS. That excludes trans women. It's transphobic.

        3 replies 6 retweets 70 likes
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      7. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Maybe we said "Hang on a minute" when we saw someone who'd been a man until his mid-30s competing, winning, against women in sports.

        1 reply 5 retweets 72 likes
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      8. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Maybe we worried about people like Danielle Muscato taking places in women-only shelters, despite being obviously male. Whoops! Transphobia!

        1 reply 6 retweets 64 likes
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      9. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Maybe we used the phrase "male-bodied" or tried to suggest that female is actually a thing. You wouldn't believe the backlash that gets.

        1 reply 6 retweets 70 likes
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      10. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Maybe we tried to tell a rich white boy in eyeliner and a dress that our years as a single mother, shit on by society, that we weren't "cis"

        4 replies 6 retweets 71 likes
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      11. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Perhaps being told that we are oppressors of male-bodied people, who need to be called out for our 'cis privilege' was the turning point.

        2 replies 7 retweets 69 likes
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      12. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Whatever it was, many of us didn't start out as TERFs. We just got tired of no apology for our femaleness being good or scraping enough.

        1 reply 9 retweets 69 likes
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      13. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Maybe we'd been an unfailing ally until we retweeted the wrong woman, or the wrong article, then faced a huge onslaught for our transphobia.

        2 replies 7 retweets 53 likes
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      14. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Maybe we saw huge males punching a 60yo woman who just wanted to go and hear a talk. Or saw them arranging to go and 'fuck up some TERFs'.

        3 replies 4 retweets 70 likes
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      15. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Perhaps it was seeing "LGBT" orgs refusing to condemn attacks on women, instead calling for us to make the world better for trans people.

        3 replies 7 retweets 66 likes
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      16. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Maybe it was seeing lesbians told they were transphobic bigots for not wanting to suck dick. Or maybe being told "suck my girl dick" did it.

        3 replies 11 retweets 79 likes
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      17. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Or maybe it was the lack of any definition whatsoever for woman, man, trans, gender, male, female, that did it.

        2 replies 5 retweets 55 likes
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      18. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        We're seeing sex-based protection that women have fought long and hard for disappear in favour of gender, a concept thats never been proved.

        1 reply 23 retweets 83 likes
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      19. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        We're watching rapists and murderers claiming to be female so they can get better treatment and access to women-only space like prisons.

        3 replies 18 retweets 75 likes
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      20. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        We're watching female prisoners get sexually harassed and assaulted, and female professionals traumatised by having to search / touch males.

        3 replies 6 retweets 55 likes
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      21. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        If any of this bothers you as a woman, make no mistake: you're a TERF. Any thought-crime is enough. You may think you're an ally, but no.

        1 reply 8 retweets 72 likes
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      22. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        "But I have trans friends" - nope. "But I think trans people should be protected by law" - nope. Any question at all, and you're a TERF.

        1 reply 8 retweets 52 likes
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      23. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        "I think everyone should be able to wear what they want, act how they want, but that doesn't change their sex." = TERF.

        1 reply 14 retweets 76 likes
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      24. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        It's comforting to position TERFs as big bad wolves, different from you - the nice women, the humane women. Problem is, it's a lie.

        1 reply 10 retweets 56 likes
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      25. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        We're women. Ordinary women. Lots of us aren't radfems. Lots of us aren't anything, except normal, run-of-the-mill women. Like you.

        3 replies 8 retweets 57 likes
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      26. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        We weren't TERFs until suddenly, one day, we said or thought the wrong thing, and we were. Because a man said so.

        1 reply 15 retweets 73 likes
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      27. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        I remember telling a friend, "I think I might be transphobic". I was told it was good I'd recognised the prob and could now work through it.

        1 reply 5 retweets 30 likes
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      28. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        Problem was, I couldn't make myself believe in trans anymore. And I couldn't get a straight answer on anything at all. Because its nonsense.

        3 replies 6 retweets 53 likes
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      29. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        The only solution - which I wasn't willing to take - was to stop asking questions and to just go along blindly, never questioning.

        1 reply 6 retweets 42 likes
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      30. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        I couldn't. I was devastated. I lost friends. I lost my online network. I felt like a terrible human being. Why couldn't I just be nice?

        3 replies 4 retweets 33 likes
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      31. That Big Old Moon  🌚‏ @Bigoldsupermoon 4 Oct 2017

        I thought I was a kind person. I thought I was humane, and compassionate, and supportive. But no, just a scummy TERF bigot.

        1 reply 7 retweets 39 likes
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