For some reason I just remembered the time, pre-transition, when Cathy Brennan tried to recruit me into being a TERF.
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This was when I was making my living as a butch lesbian writer. I'd had a big article that seemed to touch a nerve. I also had a lot of misunderstandings and negative ideas about trans people, so Cathy wasn't insane to think I'd make a good convert to her cause.
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She sent me a friend request on facebook and messaged to express admiration for my article. This wasn't an uncommon occurrence at that exact moment, and I'd never heard of her (and only barely heard of TERFs) at the time.
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I started to realize something was up when she offered me... help? protection? She thought I was being harrassed. I was not being harassed. I'd written a popular article about how great it was to be a butch lesbian. Everyone was being very kind and I was on top of the world.
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So I went to her FB page to try and figure out what her deal was. Soon I was defending trans people in her comments and then, within 2-3 hours, she blocked me. I just checked and I am still blocked to this day.
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There was so much ugliness and hate on her page that even I, a transition-skeptical self-hating trans man (at the time), saw with perfect clarity that she and anyone like her were the bad guys, and I needed to steer the fuck clear.
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I credit her with helping me realize I was trans. Because if her page hadn't been so angry and full of hate maybe I'd have gone down the TERF road myself. It still took years to come out to myself, but at least I knew who the bad guys and who the good guys were.
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Anyway, I looked her up and it sounds like she stood up to the GCs who are cozying up to right wingers, and is maybe persona non grata in the modern right-wing-allied anti-trans movement now? Funny thing, life.
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Replying to @e_urq
yeah, I don't keep up with popular TERFs because I don't care about them or their lives, but I've seen screenshots of this over the last 6 to 12 months. i've been wondering if she's somewhere near the brink of realizing she's been wrong. maybe just wishful thinking.
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Replying to @BAlyssaHauk @e_urq
because. you know. that's kind of the thing, for me. i don't want them to die, or be harmed, or whatever ill they think i wish them. i just want them to stop, realize what they've done, and work to make it right.
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Agreed. People sometimes do bad things when they're hurting and scared. I've done bad things in my life (though never on that scale, thankfully). If a former TERF wants to change, I'm all for it- whether they're a self-hating trans man or had some other reason for their mistakes.
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