I used to argue that using 'TERF' for trans-exclusionary radical feminists was simply a value-free & accurate descriptor & not a slur. They can argue that they don't exclude trans ppl from feminism coz they include trans men but this misses the criticism.
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Don't pretend their gender critical either. That makes it sound like they're intellectuals when they really aren't. Call them what they are. Anti trans. There's no simpler way of explaining their malfunction.
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I don't think 'gender-critical' sounds particularly intellectual. They just don't believe in gender identity other than as an oppressive construct. They are certainly anti-trans acceptance as the identity with which they identify but will argue they support gender-critical trans
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It also shifts the issue from being a out sex dysphoria and sex identity to being about gender as a social construct. I'm gender critical in the latter respect - expecting women to wear heels is bullshit. This doesn't mean I think trans isn't a real problem though.
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And they support that "gender critical" trans advocate for everything they want them to and essentially become patsies to their ideology. It's not really supporting the trans person at all. Just using a useful idiot. Tbh.
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Yes but its the reason 'anti-trans' will be disputed tediously.
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They view those trans people as the sex they were born. Calling trans women men and calling trans men women is not supporting trans people. Neither is supporting a single trans person who agrees with their anti trans rhetoric. Let them argue against it. Idc. It changes nothing.
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I agree with you. But it's still what they respond.
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"I have black friends" doesn't make someone not a racist either. Nor does reframing it as "race realism".
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I get what you’re saying, and I’ll make them a deal; I’ll stop calling them “TERF” when they (for example) stop calling trans people “it”.
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The problem with a term like this is exacerbated by the fact that it can be searched for on Twitter (in particular), this summoning the forces of darkness. I talked to a bunch of them recently and resisted using the term for this reason and to avoid needless divisiveness.
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It is important to note that the term was not created as a slur, but was in fact their own self-designation ab origine, and they now claim that it is a slur invented by the so-called Trans "community." TransAdvocate did an article some time back tracing the origin of the term.
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