cool-daniela-fan:

“terfs glorify female suffering”

As if trans activists hadn’t created the 1 in 12 trans women gets murdered statistic out of thin air. As if trans activists didn’t use the “life expectancy for a TW is 35” - again pulled out of thin air - to guilt trip everyone. As if “misgendering” weren’t literal violence according to trans activists. As if parents weren’t told they’d better trans their children fast or they’ll have their child’s suicide on their hands. As if any medical professional or anyone else even trying to investigate in the nature of dysphoria wouldn’t be labelled transphobic despite investigation being exactly what medical professionals – especially therapists – are expected to do. As if trans activists weren’t pulling the “poor TWC” card to make themselves look marginalised despite the fact that most TW dominating liberal spaces right now are very white, very wealthy and very creepy. As if trans women weren’t out there rambling on the plight of “closeted trans women” or “trans women being turned out by lesbians with internalized cissexism” in utter seriousness. As if the plight of trans women in general were used as a stick to beat young people into submission and compliance and especially terror of these bad terfs or at least silence

As if trans women had never sued a rape shelter in Vancouver or created absurd tags like #protransprochoice in 2014 just to include trans women in the pro-choice movement. As if trans women weren’t out there calling their physical discomfort “a regular menstrual period”. As if trans women didn’t call their voluntary consumption of HRT “forced sterilization” to win oppression points. As if trans women weren’t constantly appropriating the work of black women in the US, indigenous women, intersex women and other women who live on the margins to get back at terfs. As if US trans women didn’t make a ruckus over “pussy hats” excluding them – as cringey as it was – despite the fact it was about sexual assault. They felt excluded from a discussion about sexual assault. Only trans women are allowed to fetishize female suffering. Terfs are just evil because they exclude them for all organizing that aims to relieve female suffering. Terfs must delay or disrupt their organizing to make TW feel validated, even when it actively puts women at risk, or they’re constantly told they have blood on their hands.

Why would being excluded be so bad? Why do trans activists protest when trans people are provided with gender neutral accomodations? Because their identities must never be invalidated, and must be prioritized before the well-being of little girls, imprisoned women, disabled women, battered women etc. But if we point out the unfairness, we’re fetishizing female suffering.

Obviously, terfs are middle class and young and rich. But try explaining “cissexism” to Syrian child brides or babies left to die of exposure in Pakistan – oh wait, fetishizing again, right?