Seeing as there’s once more TERF discourse in the SFF/literary twittersphere, let me ask you this: if you don’t believe that self-knowledge/self-identification is the only universal proof of gender identity, then what the fuck is? Thread:
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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: biology is absurd, because LIFE is absurd. We’re all electric meat with feelings, and the idea that trans people are scary and wrong Because Something Something Fear Is The Mindkiller Somethingn is so exhaustingly fucking juvenile.
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“BUT WHAT IF I HAVE TO SHARE A BATHROOM WITH SOMEONE WITH DIFFERENT GENITALS??” BITCH you mean like you do in your house?? Or a unisex bathroom?? Or a parents and kids bathroom-slash-changing area?? If someone is being creepy you remove THAT ONE PERSON, not everyone trying to pee
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In conclusion TERFism is fucking absurd and poisonous and does real harm to vulnerable people just trying to exist. GTFOH with that bullshit.
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Jumping back on this thread to say that if an individual trans person refers to their life pre-transition or pre-realisation-of-transness by saying “when I was [gender assigned at birth]” that’s their choice and it’s fine! It’s not a gotcha! for Being Trans Is Fake Actually -
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- it just means that gender and identity are, as mentioned, complicated. A trans woman who didn’t understand herself until well into adulthood will have different experiences to a trans girl who identified as such at a young age and was supported by her family pre-puberty.
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Similarly, the fact that some people detransition or don’t want to medically transition in the first place? It’s fine! Figuring yourself out can be hard actually, even if the only difficulty is getting other people understand where you’re at or that it’s not their business!
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You know that video of the anti-masker dude throwing an absolute TANTRUM and then taking his dick out in the shops? TERFs are like that guy, only instead of showing their own genitals they’re grabbing the pants of the person they’re yelling at.
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