Evan Urquhart

We really need people to start using "Transphobe" instead of "TERF" in the general case. The vast majority of transphobes don't give a shit about Sheila Jeffreys or Mary Daly, they hate trans people and that's it.

The scapegoating of feminism has served a dual function of allowing transphobes to present resistance to transphobia as misogyny and a war between trans people and "Women". The word TERF was coined to address fractures within feminism over transphobia, not as a catch-all.

I get how this seems as pointlessly nit-picky, but the perception that trans liberation struggle is a fight against women (when a large and scary contingent of the organised transphobic movement are men talking about war and heads on spikes) has been weaponised against us.

Call transphobia, anti-trans discrimination and hostility, what it is. It's got a name. It's not (in general) a feminist position to be transphobic. The vast majority of actually engaged trans activists have a very long history working within the feminist movement.

True. Most of the transphobes I engage with haven’t got a clue about feminism. How about an education campaign? We could actually teach some feminist history.

I'd be up for it, but I don't know what you have in mind. I'm not sure that teaching TERF/Trans feminist history is necessarily that worthwhile an endeavour (there's too many ancient grudges as it is, it's sucked too much energy, and is already written up by @transadvocate)

Yeah, this stuff is always a problem. Do you call someone who's dialectic comes from Mein Kampf a Nazi even if they claim to reject Nazism? If someone's dialectic comes from TS Empire but claims to not be a feminist, are they a TERF? Crypto-fascists are always a thing.