There are absolutely transfem TERFs. Here’s an interview with one.
If you’re asking why there tend to be more transmascs in the movement, though, the answer is fairly simple: TERFs actively want us there. What you’re misunderstanding here is why TERFs include and exclude certain groups, and how that inclusion and exclusion works.
For trans women, yes, the goal is to be recognized and validated as women; that means inclusion in feminism. So when TERFs say “no, we aren’t going to include you, you’re not women”, that is obviously counter to those goals & needs. It’s very easy to look over at the transmascs they do include and think, well, they’re getting what I want- that’s unfair.
But TERFs do include trans women, when it benefits them. If you read that article, you’ll see what I’m talking about.
“At the end of the day, a “gender critical” trans woman can only serve one real purpose, if required – to attack trans ideology as a trans person. It’s a kind of on-call duty: TERF accused of transphobia, intervene as trans woman to deny and offer character testimony.”
And why do they include transmascs? Is it because they care about our struggles, validate us as men, and want to help us fight the transphobia that impacts us? Are TERFs donating to transmasc transition funds and discussing ways to better include us?
TERFs believe that trans men are women, that they are victims of trans ideology, and that any day now a cleansing wave of detransitioning trans men will sweep through the population. (Urquheart)
They include us because they want to manipulate, abuse, and sometimes even sexually assualt and rape us into detransition. They want to “turn” us. They want to “save” us. They want to eradicate the transmasc population just as much as they want to eradicate the transfem population; they just go about the two differently.
There are no “TERFs who don’t hate transmascs”. There are TERFs who manipulate and abuse us into detransitioning by pretending to have our best interests at heart, and there are TERFs who manipulate and abuse us into detransitioning by openly hating and harassing us.
When a TERF says “I love trans men, I just want what’s best for them” and you listen to them- even as transmascs are telling you how dangerous they are, how much they hurt us, how much damage their rhetoric is doing to our community- you are choosing to side with the oppressor and the abuser. Stop listening to TERFs, and start listening to the trans people they victimize.
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