lgbtqiapdolphins:

Honestly? Per capita terfs are the most dangerous group out there.

Sure, men perpetuate transphobia, especially the physical violence portions of it. And they, being men, have more influence in society to enact their transphobia than women do.

But terfs? They have influence where it matters. Feminist spaces? They’re there. Social justice activism event? They’re organizing them. Women only spaces? They’re already there. Already manipulating other women to perpetuate their transmisogyny.

Terfs actively use their cis privilege in these spaces to perpetuate and amplify already culturally held transmisogyny. Women that were on the brink are scared into transmisogyny by terf’s blatant fear mongering. Spaces that could have been- should have been- safe for trans women are made into sources of exclusion, signs that trans women “don’t belong”.

And let me tell you how fucking devastating it is, to turn there, to supposedly progressive groups focused women’s empowerment, and get rejected by the same transmisogyny that causes us to feel like we never belong anywhere. I feel like I don’t belong walking down the street, in my classes I feel like an outcast, I walk into the wrong bathroom and I know I don’t belong, I don’t belong in my apartment living with 4 men, fuck even at my Uni’s Pride group I’m surrounded by transmisogyny.

I’m engulfed by transmisogyny.

And then the one space that has any potential for being safe, terfs have the most influence. Terfs took that away from me. Terfs intentionally intensified the transmisogyny that would keep me out.

You may not be responsible for directly killing trans women. But as far as I’m concerned you killed so many more. You drove so many more to suicide: you killed them. You knew it would kill them. That’s why you did it. If that’s not murder I don’t know what is. I’ll be damned if I let Terfs get away with excusing their murders.