*sigh* This forum continues to reinforce my opinion that nobody is going to change their minds, no matter how much you try to clarify what actually happened.
JK likes to insist that she has always supported trans people but she has never actually proven it. Considering how much she enjoys defending people actively hostile to trans people and those who create hostile environments for trans people well that just comes across as you trying to use a shield #notyourshield
If you didn’t already know – and why should you? – ‘TERF’ is an acronym coined by trans activists, which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. In practice, a huge and diverse cross-section of women are currently being called TERFs and the vast majority have never been radical feminists. Examples of so-called TERFs range from the mother of a gay child who was afraid their child wanted to transition to escape homophobic bullying, to a hitherto totally unfeminist older lady who’s vowed never to visit Marks & Spencer again because they’re allowing any man who says they identify as a woman into the women’s changing rooms. Ironically, radical feminists aren’t even trans-exclusionary – they include trans men in their feminism, because they were born women
its an accurate description of your views JK. Trans exclusionary radical feminists view trans men as traitors to woman kind, even worse, TERF lesbians view trans men as people who are causing them harm by reducing their dating pools. Show some evidence that this actually happened JK. This is attempting to use trans men as a shield against criticism and guess what JK if you are against trans women having the same rights as you NOBODY gives a flying **** if you support trans men you are STILL a TERF. This is precisely the sort of excuse the Bell Curve fanboys used "Im not racist I think Chinese people are smarter than white people, checkmate libs!". If you are fundamentally opposed to the inclusion of trans women in your feminism you are a TERF, the distinction ultimately does not matter and is only a selfish justification to obsfuscate the issue. (Psst only TERFs think TERF is a slur. SWERFs and TERFs exist... deal with it). You cant be bigoted towards TERFs anymore than you can be bigoted towards homophobes.
1. You cant escape homophobia by being trans, you will just get bullied even more in America and the UK.
2. We are only taking the word of the parent not the child in question so we dont have much context here.
3. From what I hear, the parent actually asked "Arent you just gay?" while that might not have been a malevolent question, it does exemplify what a lot of trans kids are asked by parents who are ignorant
But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground. ‘They’ll call us transphobic!’ ‘They’ll say I hate trans people!’ What next, they’ll say you’ve got fleas? Speaking as a biological woman, a lot of people in positions of power really need to grow a pair (which is doubtless literally possible, according to the kind of people who argue that clownfish prove humans aren’t a dimorphic species).
That which is claimed without evidence JK can be dismissed as evidence. Only the most idiotic of your fanboys would buy this uncritically.
Simply put, as Critfacts noted, and I agree the framing of this implies that the purpose of feminism is to engage in the eternal struggle of biology that pits man against women and makes trans women out to be a horrible invader from the male class that is always the oppressor class into the oppressed class. Does anyone not notice this framing is exactly like the conservative strawman of marxism and social justice movements? The eternal struggle of the oppressor and the oppressed?
