YES! That part jumped out at me in a huge way and I thought I must have been seeing something that wasn't there because basically nobody mentioned it. Thank you for the retroactive validation.
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The underlying belief- and this is where the "TERF" acronym becomes incorrect btw- is that the lot of women as the weaker sex is to be victims of men and the best that can be hoped for is some protections that keep them apart and safe, but never equal.
This is a major departure from the original rad fem belief system, which was that gender originated entirely in socialization- so to be socialized as a woman was to be a woman and vice versa- and that gender should be abolished entirely for everyone.
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Our modern TERF-influenced transphobes kept some of the older TERF thinking, but have mostly discarded that part. I think in part because it's too radical but also because nonbinary people and trans people's embrace of them has largely removed that ground.
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I got brigaded the other week on here for tweeting that there aren't really gender differences in athletics until you reach elite levels, and I've never seen so many people calling themselves feminist while declaring women to be biologically inferior in every way.
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