Phrases and Slogans which the trans movement stole from other movements

Someone once suggested that we create a list of phrases and slogans that the trans movement has copied from other movements. This is a rudimentary list and I am already at the photo cap for mobile. I plan to update this list and add some more things, especially more examples as the ones I have so far are from a quick search so please send them to me/reblog with them if you have so.

UPDATED 20/06/2020

‘Conversion therapy’

Stolen from the LG(B) community.

It’s used to mean ‘therapy’ which is supposed to turn a gay person straight but is really an abusive tactic used to tell gay people (especially gay children/teens) that they are wrong, sinful, and/or unnatural and that they need to be ‘corrected’.

TRAs use it to say that there are some people wanting to turn trans people cis. However, the ‘conversion therapy’ which they normally say turns trans people cis is regular therapy which helps people cope with their dysphoric feels and is not comparable to conversion therapy. Moreover, transing people in some places is used as conversion therapy -see Iran for example.

Examples of it’s usage:

Stonewall

WebMD

GLAAD

Newspaper articles: (x) (x) (x)

‘We’ve always been here’

Stolen from the LGB community.

Originally discussing how LGB people have been around throughout history despite how often it’s denied by homophobes. The phrase has been co-opted by trans people to say the same thing despite very little documentation of this beyond women who pretended to be men to benefit from male privilege (and denying that it’s why they did this erases the historical misogyny and the barriers women faced in the past).

Examples of it’s usage:

Stonewall

‘Trans Lives Matter’

Directly stolen from the Black Lives Matter movement. Sometimes phrased as ’Black Trans Lives Matter’.

Examples of it’s usage:

‘The Future is Genderless’ or ‘The future is trans’

Stolen from the feminist movement which says ‘the future is female’.

Examples of it’s usage:

Articles: (x)

BONUS MISOGYNY ROUND:

The Future is Not Female. It’s Two-Spirit, Trans, and Non-Binary.

The Future Isn’t Female, It’s Trans.

‘Trans rights are human rights’

Stolen from the feminist movement which says ‘women’s rights are human rights’

Examples of it’s usage:

Amnesty International

A Lecture On It (video in article)

UN Foundation

Articles: (x)

‘Punch a TERF/SWERF’

Not exactly stolen from a particular movement, but taken from the ‘Punch a Nazi’. Mainly added to show the violence of the movement especially misogynistic violence. (I will add more later but I ran out of photo space on my phone.)