Dumb Ideologies wrote:Chessmistress wrote:
Hello to you
It seems to me you're still unable to get the difference between saying "transexuals shouldn't be feminists but allies because they don't share our full experience" and "I hate transexuals" - but it's an HUGE difference. Also, I wrote the same for males, even highlighting that males do not share at all women's experience (that means that I think they are - generally, on average - worse allies than transexuals).
Also you conflate "transphobes" and "queerphobes": gender abolitionism is all pro-queer, in fact is the epitome of pro-queer. The very fact that we criticise some pro-heteronormativity behaviors and stereotypisations exhibited by transexuals is inherently and deeply queer.
There is no authentic unified female experience given differences of culture, class, education and - yes - sex assignation at birth so it is logically impossible for you to rule trans folk "in" or "out" of it. Furthermore you have no authority or right to exclude self-defining women from the category of "woman" - you are attempting to establish a false hierarchy and relations of control with yourself at the head. Gender abolitionism is inherently "anti-queer" because trying to remove gender from the vocabulary removes the tools to criticize societal technologies and methodologies of gendered hierarchy; there is a reason why cultural conservatives are also very keen to eliminate such terms. A pro-queer stance entails seeking to maximize individual space to express gendered selves and identities; you seek to use instruments of social control to isolate and eventually eliminate categories of self-defining women - that is anti-trans and anti-queer. You do not criticize "pro-heteronormative behaviours and stereotypes exhibited by transsexual individuals" as a neutral bystander - what you do is look for a way to justify stating that their identities are "inauthentic" because you have already decided that they are. A transwoman whose presentation behaviour is within "standard" feminine bounds is, to you, merely replaying stereotypes and helping to bolster a patriarchal framework, but a transwoman such as myself who is somewhat more queer in presentation and behaviour demonstrates to you "residual male energy" and again "proves" inauthenticity. Such commentary is not a neutral representation of the facts but a transphobic confirmation bias writ large.
Ultimately, there is no way to deny that TERFs are transphobic - we're unwanted outsiders who you want to keep out and marginalize in the short term and eliminate in the long-term through brainwashing "feminist" therapy to eliminate our unethical and immoral existences. These are exactly the methods advocated by conservative Christians through their bigoted and oppressive attempts to "reprogram" gay people; you'll have to forgive me if your protestations to "hate the sin, but love the sinner" have the ring of hand-waving and excuse making.
You are a bigot; that is your problem, not ours, and it is your moral duty as a feminist to try to overcome your unsustainable and unjustifiable prejudices.
Fucking oath DI, you rock!
#rekt