see I think that terfs have made the âcriteriaâ 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 otherâs throats & create chambers of self loathing
your voice 1 semitone too deep? youâre not a woman
your nose just a millimeter too wide? youâre not a woman
1 gram too fat? youâre not a woman
you applied too much make up? not enough makeup? sorry but youâre 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 canât 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, thereâs a word for what terfs do: eugenics
The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy
Todayâs transgender, nonwhite, and Jewish communities bear the brunt of all this destruction as we try to restore our humanity. This has proven to be an uphill battle at best. Many far-right conspiracy theories point to Judaism as the source of transness, and Transgender Woman-Exclusive Radical Feminists (TWERFs) notoriously use white supremacy to âdetermineâ womanhood. TWERFs are curiously indiscriminate in their discrimination. They often harass not only transgender women, but any woman outside the Eurocentric boundaries of femininity.
The body of Caster Semenya, a South African Olympic runner, has been under fire since she was eighteen. The International Association of Athletics Federations questioned her testosterone levels and made her âproveâ she was a woman through sex verification. When the association verified she was female, they then insisted she take medication to lower her testosterone levels or risk disqualification from running events. They argued her natural body put other runners at a disadvantage.
Despite them coercing her into altering her body to keep her athletic career, TWERFs saw this as a victory. They asserted that Semenya was a man due to her hormones, despite her genitalia. (Ironically, TWERFs also refuse to see transitioning transgender men as men due to their genitalia, despite their hormones.) On the other hand, when people discovered Michael Phelps to have half the lactic acid of his competitors, his gender wasnât questioned at all. The public celebrated his genetic upper hand.
Images of four female runners from the 2019 Chinese National Athletics Championship were spread widely on Twitter, many TWERFs declaring that as many as three of them were men. Yet despite their short hair and âunconventionalâ physiques, all the runners were cisgender women. The Chinese Athletics Association explicitly confirmed that none of the runners under attack are transgender, but TWERFs refused to believe them. Some went so far as to claim the government was gaslighting the public. Members of the Iranian womenâs football team went under similar allegations in September 2019 due to their âmasculineâ appearances.
Modern transphobic (particularly transmisogynistic) rhetoric continues to be notoriously antisemitic. Mary Daly calls transgender women the âfinal solutionâ of women in her book, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978), where she warns that they desire an âinability to distinguish the female Self and her process from the male-made masquerade.â The âfinal solutionâ phrasing alludes to the extermination Jewish people in Europe. Kevin MacDonald, who the Anti-Defamation League names âNeo Naziâs favorite academic,â declares that itâs the Jewish goal to destabilize societal norms like the Western gender binary.
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Politically active TWERFs like Cathy Brennan and organizations such as the Womenâs Liberation Front routinely work alongside misogynistic conservatives and white supremacists to bar transgender rights. Brennan has collaborated with the Pacific Justice Insititute â which has compared same-sex marriage to the Holocaust â to fabricate stories of transgender women assaulting young girls in public restrooms. Jennifer Bilek wrote an article arguing that transgender âideologyâ is the work of wealthy âelites,â particularly Jewish people. Mentioned for funding the âtransgender agendaâ are George Soros â who Nazis frequently point to as proof of Jewish people controlling the world â and Jewish transgender activists Martine Rothblatt and Jennifer Pritzker.
Itâs unsurprising that gender essentialism is a primary doctrine in âgender criticalâ radical feminist thought, even though gender essentialism arguably works against gender equality and several scientists question its alleged accuracy. TWERFs routinely cling to the notion of the âbiological womanâ to keep transgender women out of womenâs spaces and frequently examine womenâs physiques to âdetermineâ if theyâre transgender or not (by the way, Non-classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia â NCCAH â is particularly common in cisgender Ashkenazi Jewish women, occasionally accused to be male due to this condition).
anyway... the âadult human femaleâ mantra that shitheads keep parroting in the notes is full of shit
