Or at least completely unaware of these connotations and needing to be made aware lest they be misunderstood. The same slide has happened with the term TERF. Not only is it used almost exclusively in a derogatory sense, it need not apply to trans-exclusionary radical feminists.
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I have decided against using TERF to describe feminists with this attitude but refer to them as 'gender-critical feminists' and say why I think their views are wrong & their activism harmful (when it is) whilst defending their right not to believe in gender identity & say so.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @notCursedE
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @notCursedE @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @notCursedE
Yes but its the reason 'anti-trans' will be disputed tediously.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @notCursedE
I agree with you. But it's still what they respond.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
"I have black friends" doesn't make someone not a racist either. Nor does reframing it as "race realism".
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I'm not sure how this relates. I don't agree with them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'm aware? I'm just saying. The same way we don't let racists define themselves as intellectuals via terms like "race realist" we also shouldn't do the same for anti trans. I'm making an argument as to why you shouldn't say gender critical?
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Replying to @notCursedE
Yes, OK, and I have said why I don't think it's an intellectual term & why I think it's more accurate than anti-trans. We'll have to agree to disagree.
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