Bro. I saw a terf on a post say. "If your experience of womanhood is constantly reminding people you're a woman, you're not one." Um. Ma'am. Have you met any minority woman? Like any of them?

The transmysogny is already yk wild because terf but say you've never spoken to a cis black woman without saying it lmao

Its funny because people constantly used to not see me as a woman until I STOPPED identifying as a woman (agender), then they become biology experts

Do you remember when people kept swearing up and down Michelle Obama was trans?? I most certainly do. Or how people are calling Megan Thee Stallion trans. Like it's a widespread thing, ESPECIALLY with darker women. The darker we are, the worse it gets.

White women feel threatened by women of color and refuse to admit this.

When Caitlin Jenner said that she’s more of a woman than Serena Williams it was to remind her peers that “womanhood” in this white supremacist culture is about looking fragile, pale and the antithesis of West African women (and their descendants) who had no choice but to be muscular under slavery conditions - more than anything else.

TERF Ideology will ALWAYS be racist. And I find it funny when POC that are terfs deal with racism from white terfs. Beloved, they never liked you anyway regardless if what ideologies you agree with lol you're not a white woman so you're subhuman to them

the category of “woman” has since its inception been bound up in fundamentally racial, cissexual, and class terms. “Woman” has never once been a category that all women belonged to, not because they aren’t “actually” women but because gender is a structure that mediates access to personhood, and being granted personhood has historically been a privilege reserved for the very few (white, bourgeois, cis-heterosexual, perisex, etc). JKR is not being a hypocrite by saying, on the one hand, that she wants to “protect women,” and then on the other attacks women of colour, trans women, intersex women, and so on. she is participating in the centuries-old Western tradition of policing the boundaries of gender and thus who gets counted as human. expressing incredulity at this supposed hypocrisy is just revealing that you have not engaged with even introductory level writing on the subject, which is why the charge of hypocrisy is not only unhelpful but actively obfuscates the oppressive structure of gender

I think one thing people forgot about terfs is how RACIST they are towards women of color (god forbid be a trans woman of color) and how those people uphold white supremacist views of gender.

women of color being hypermasculinized is not a new thing. it's happened for decades, it's just it's been brought to light more with how other white women, especially those who wear the feminist label, throw these women of color, MAINLY BROWN AND BLACK WOMEN, under the bus and dehumanize them. as a black person this is nothing new to me, it's just gross to see this as an ongoing issue. its transmisognistic and has roots in misogynoir.

as a black queer person, saying this to my white queers, you gotta understand that like, this goes beyond just transphobia/queerphobia and is specifically rooted in racism/anti blackness. you gotta be able to point out the racism too when it comes to specific issues like this.

ah yes. the end stage of terfism; calling all brown women men. no one has ever done this before! certainly not a vile and vitriolic racist sentiment that black and brown women face daily!! keep it up guys!!! you’re *totally* doing feminism and not taking us back literal centuries -.-

i also want to highlight Algeria’s response to this

and carini’s response

just your daily reminder that terfs make up stories to justify their hatred of trans women and racism.

here’s the link to the cnn article this is from but just be aware there is a transphobic statement from meloni in it; italy’s fascist premier. interesting how terfs align with someone like that! must be their fascist ideology or something!!

would love to hear her comment about a literal cis male predator who SA'ed a 12 year old 8 years ago still being allowed to fucking compete. but of course, she doesn't care about real threats. just the imagined ones.

> “mannish features”

> look inside

> literally just common physical traits among women of colour

you can’t separate transmisogyny from racism. the radical feminism movement is so overwhelmingly white because their idea of what a woman is is so thoroughly steeped in white supremacy.

as an east asian trans woman, this is why i talk about how i pass better to white people than i do to other asian people.

many of my features that asian people see as masculine, white people perceive as feminine because of western beauty standards.

and because of that, east asian people are more palatable to white people because of our relative proximity to whiteness as opposed to black and brown women of color.

racism hurts us all, misogyny hurts us all, and transphobia hurts us all. but also remember that transmisogyny and misogynoir sit at the intersection of a lot of nasty shit and we need to be talking about it.

Please never stop ignoring that white supremacy is a huge core element of radfem/terf ideology.

Like yes they hyperenforce gender roles and stereotypes on all cis women, but it is primarily women of color that they target and accuse of being predatory and "not real women" when they're targeting cis women.

The metrics of "real woman vs trans woman" that terfs love to share are almost all just white eurocentric beauty standards. Small nose, thin fine hair, little/no body hair, petite but somehow curvy, hell I've even seen a post saying skin lightness is a determiner.

Terf/radfem circles are racist at their core. You cannot separate radical feminism from it's violently white supremacist roots. You can't have "anti-racist radical feminism", that's a fucking oxymoron. There is a very clean path from terfs to tradfems/tradwifes, to just straight up conservative republican women.

Yes yes always, terfs are super misogynistic. They hurt all women by forcing them back into the little impossible painful boxes that they claim they're fighting. But one of their biggest targets other than trans women is black women. Not to mention ignoring, discrediting, or just straight up trying to erase all the hard work that black trans women did for queer rights.

Radical feminism is very much transphobic, homophobic, and misogynistic. I'm not saying stop addressing it as such. Don't ever do addressing it as such!

But racial feminism is white supremacy in a coat of pink paint. Please never forget that when talking about how it hurts us all.

This is a picture of a cis woman, y’all are literally just racist

TERFS DID THIS TO ME ON TUMBLR. I got an anon telling me I passed terribly. like. I'm literally cis and by telling me I do not pass, you are showing that you view womanhood in ways that are not only regressive for trans folk but also regressive and harmful for the very cis women you claim to support and prioritize. They uphold the very beauty and gender performative standards they seek to diminish. Fuck terfs.

Daily reminder that TERFism has roots in both fascism (eugenics, patriarchal gender performance) and white supremacy (euronormative standards of beauty and biology) and is by no means a viable form of feminism.

It's just like stupid as hell to me to insist terfs hate men when like so many of them start leaning into trad shit using cis men as their defenders, so many of their staunchest supporters are cis men (especially white supremacist, hell you poke a terf and a white supremacist jumps out), like you have no idea how many cis men (straight and gay) I've seen and had to block for being transmisogynists who were much too happy to be in community with terfs.

I truly believe that ultimately terf bullshit is firmly rooted in protecting white women's whiteness and the privilege it entails with the misogyny they face as a shield. It's truly a sham, because the more you look at it, it's all ideology wrapped in feminist word salad that ultimately again, amounts to how white women can't be held accountable for shit using misogyny as an excuse to do so. And they truly dont mind being hand in hand with some of the most violently misogynistic, racist, transphobic sacks of shit men in the world to protect that white cis idea and standard of womanhood. So truly I dont buy that hatred of men shit, it's all a play, and it's all badly veiled transmisogyny.

They don't hate men, they hate that trans women aren't men, that they aren't fitting into the gender nor the gender roles assigned to them, and that by mere virtue of existing, their ("their" here being terfs) very shallow definition of "womanhood" and even more shallow understanding of how they think misogyny/patriarchy operates, especially in congruence with racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc calls that understanding into question. Instead of actually thinking about it, thinking about how stupid it is to confine yourself to shallow WHITE ideas of what "womanhood" or their brand of feminism is, it's way easier to just scapegoat trans women as a threat to that supposed "womanhood" and ultimately gender roles they themselves are making up for other women who also dont fit in with them.

Malala Yousafzai backed a pro-trans Pakistani film, Joyland and UK feminists who backed her before lose their shit so much

Actually I'm very glad to find out about this today. I was worried about her politics because she studied in Oxford lol

Oh they're not coping well lol. Seethe harder.

Malala Yousafzai backed a pro-trans Pakistani film, Joyland and UK feminists who backed her before lose their shit so much

Actually I'm very glad to find out about this today. I was worried about her politics because she studied in Oxford lol

Oh they're not coping well lol. Seethe harder.

see I think that terfs have made the “criteria” for being a woman so thin that not even they can fit into it & in turn it causes them to not only go at each other’s throats & create chambers of self loathing

your voice 1 semitone too deep? you’re not a woman

your nose just a millimeter too wide? you’re not a woman

1 gram too fat? you’re not a woman

you applied too much make up? not enough makeup? sorry but you’re not a woman

this lack of autonomy is what drives people into spirals that only end in a disaster of self hatred because they think they can’t fit when the core tenant of feminism is literally women having control over their own bodies. terfs want the opposite of this, when they gain control of others bodies the end result is always violence & death.

in fact, there’s a word for what terfs do: eugenics

The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy

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anyway... the ‘adult human female’ mantra that shitheads keep parroting in the notes is full of shit

it's always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like "how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!" because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there's diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept

incidentally, this why terfs tend to be white women. from the combahee river collective statement, 1977:

(emphasis mine)

"To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women's experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed."

(from "Whose feminism is it, anyway?" by Emi Koyama)

This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.

it's always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like "how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!" because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there's diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept

incidentally, this why terfs tend to be white women. from the combahee river collective statement, 1977:

(emphasis mine)

"To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women's experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed."

(from "Whose feminism is it, anyway?" by Emi Koyama)

This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.

This is a picture of a cis woman, y’all are literally just racist

TERFS DID THIS TO ME ON TUMBLR. I got an anon telling me I passed terribly. like. I'm literally cis and by telling me I do not pass, you are showing that you view womanhood in ways that are not only regressive for trans folk but also regressive and harmful for the very cis women you claim to support and prioritize. They uphold the very beauty and gender performative standards they seek to diminish. Fuck terfs.

you can never separate transphobia from patriarchal, also often white-centric, ideals of womanhood.

This is a picture of a cis woman, y’all are literally just racist

TERFS DID THIS TO ME ON TUMBLR. I got an anon telling me I passed terribly. like. I'm literally cis and by telling me I do not pass, you are showing that you view womanhood in ways that are not only regressive for trans folk but also regressive and harmful for the very cis women you claim to support and prioritize. They uphold the very beauty and gender performative standards they seek to diminish. Fuck terfs.

Idk which one of yall reblogged my chronic illness post to cracker ass r*dfem tumblr but don't do that shit ever again, watching them all scramble to act like they care about poor black women when they have historically perpetuated violent racism in defense of women so they say, as if black women don't fucking exist, have fully misgendered and masculinized black women with their rigid terms of womanhood (don't even get me started on how this fares for me, a cis black woman with severe pcos, a non working womb and hella high testosterone), and have never truly come to bat for poor women or non college educated women who can't describe their own oppression in terms these bitches deem intellectually valid enough. I'm not holding no space for these ugly white bitches please don't put my shit in they spaces.

my friend saw a twitter thread thats absolutely bonkers surrounding like "it breaks my immersion in a movie/tw show when the supposed best friends look so different in appearance (body type, outfits, coloring)". the thread was written by a terf it seems (red with shinigami eyes) and seemed slightly racially charged given some wording but then you scroll down and the replies are like

And I'm like. No go on. No explain it to me. These two men have nearly identical outfits in this picture. Explain it to me slowly and say with your whole chest why you can't believe these two are best friends.