I don’t have the full story but I’ve got a fair bit so *cracks knuckles*
Elise (née persistentlyfem) made friends with a trans woman via her butch/femme gossip supper club. This trans woman opened up to her about being assigned male even though it was one of those spaces where her butchness meant she passed as a transmasc butch.
She then sees Elise doing her usual thing (harassing people extremely viciously on the internet) and says to her “you need to stop, that’s abusive.” From what she told me, she meant it in a caring way where you want your friends to grow as people and cause minimal harm.
Elise, being a rational and level headed individual, decided that she actually cannot enact abuse, so therefore this trans woman was abusing *her*!
So Elise stalks this trans woman on Reddit, finds her account and starts replying to every one of her posts calling her a rapist. Then once this trans woman understandably freaked out and deleted everything, Elise starts writing this really nasty fanfic bullshit about the poor girl on /r/truscum, in spite of being a fucking cis woman. Then whenever someone said “imagine a butch trans woman yuck” Elise would use that opportunity to hone her creative writing skills by saying she knew a trans “woman” (quotes hers) who wanted a total mastectomy and was a rapist and got off on tricking woman into fucking her and was making up being autistic and so on. Just real total smear campaign shit, literally every facet of her identity was twisted into supposed proof that she was actually the main character in the novel Adam.
The most fucked part is that this trans woman had been staked before and nearly killed herself, and she told this to Elise, so as far as I’m concerned, Elise tried to kill her.
I’ve seen screenshots of this stuff and it’s just absolutely fucked, totally unhinged shit. I might post them if I get permission.
So this trans woman is taking part in this thing that ended up being a huge thing in Sydney, the Butch Fashion show that opened Mardi Gras. I’m told the organisers were clueless (not butch or femme and mostly just insulated away from any real community) and so they just thought Elise was an elder based on her running of the Butch-Femme group, but Elise came to be a femme in the 90s I think. She’s harassed actual elders that I personally know into hiding.
So, naive as hell, they give her a VIP ticket. The trans woman is getting more and more scared as she sees Elise writing more and more violent fan fiction about her, and so eventually she approaches the organisers and says she needs to pull out of the show because she can’t do her performance with Elise sitting in the front row like she’s not a violent victim-complexed bigot.
The organisers don’t want her pulling out of the show so they ask what’s going on, and the trans woman sends them screenshots. She asks that they not confront Elise because she now understands just how volatile Elise is, but these are neoliberal “see the best in people” kinds of organisers so of course they decide to confront her before revoking her ticket. Elise immediately flies off the handle and accuses them of protecting a rapist, before going into inane babbling about how she’s gonna “go public” (her fan fiction).
Distressed as hell, the trans woman still does the show and has a great time, but the next morning on the Butch/Femme gossip group page there’s this huge cancellation post about her she “assaulted” Elise in her apartment. According to the trans woman, she was over there to give Elise pro bono weed from her personal stash because Elise goes through half an ounce a week, and she was in a bad mood already when Elise started bragging about “absolutely demolishing” some poor Tumblr kid who’d drank a bit of Kool-Aid. So when Elise says assaulted, what she means is “I got yelled at for giving a child trauma but since I’m a white cis woman that’s assault.”
So anyway, the trans woman spirals and goes underground for a few months, as any one of us would in such a violent situation.
Elise eventually decides to start spewing TERF shit on Tumblr so I made this account under a different URL just to document it. I’ve documented her abuse before but this was to be the crème de la crème master doc.
The mutual friend between me and this trans woman sees my new account, realises it’s me, and puts us in touch at my request, because I really wanted to know what made ol’ Ellie go full bigot when she used to fight tooth and nail for trans woman inclusion.
I wasn’t surprised to learn that in the years since she harassed me she’s devolved into this paranoid shell of a woman that spent all her time alone getting high in a decrepit apartment that seemingly hasn’t been ever cleaned.
Even more disappointing, however, is that she has such a hard time separating her feelings from reality that she decided to generalise a beef with a single trans woman to all trans women everywhere. She already hated nonbinary people but kept it on the down low (or at least she thought she did, I’ve heard tell of a time that someone introduced themself with their pronouns and she had the gall to roll her eyes).
So I told the trans woman to just wait. Elise had gone full bigot and we just needed her to slip up. Eventually, the time came.
Elise posted a graphic on her business account that said something along the lines of “it’s hard to know if a business is truly safe, but with me you don’t have to worry because my business is truly queer and trans inclusive.”
So I got a friend to give me the login details to their meme account and I replied to that post with a comment detailing that it was a blatant lie, she’d actually been calling trans woman “trans identified males” on Tumblr, calling nonbinary people who were AFAB “women with internalised misogyny” and blankety stating that any butch who’d been assigned male is a rapist in sheep’s clothing.
It took her over and hour to delete my comment and then she freaked out and went into panic mode, and she did exactly what I expected, something that would have hurt her really really badly:
She deleted persistentlyfem, and I took the URL. She’s now back to using @clownyprincess.
Now I see myself as a kind person and I wish I could say I did this for that poor trans woman who’d had to endure so much of Elise’s genuinely insane abuse, but I did it for me.
Ellie if you’re reading this, fuck you! I told you to watch your back, you vain, abusive, misogynistic coward. Who’s had the last Joker laugh now you fucking clown.
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