Trans discourse is stalled at "trans women are women, trans men are men," and TERFs and other bigots are somehow able keep it there with low effort.
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Part of why I don't engage TERFs or the rhetoric is because it's supremely uninteresting to fence at their denials from 9000 different positions.
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Turns out I can do a lot more w/ r.t. trans activism simply by asserting my gender and moving on.
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With due respect to "don't ignore the bigot" arguments, this is one area where I think that rule breaks down. They have managed to completely stagnate us in entry-level discourse.
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And since it's done in bad faith, literally *nothing* we can do can break that. We have to outflank that argument.
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In otherwords, let the TERF be a TERF. Their power exists only insomuch as they have people willing to listen, and we can engage those marks more effectively.
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TERFs operate a very small, easily bypassable gate. They can't be gatekeepers if we just hop the fence.
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That said, fuck Jesse Signal. I hope he falls down an open manhole while namesearching to see what trans people dare challenge his views of how we live.
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