#4thwavenow

[shinra-makonoid]

Okay can we talk about companies that propose packers for children? Like actual prepubescent children?

And that people buy it?

What the fuck. It comes from 4ThWaveNow Twitter page. I don’t agree with much of their views but yeah that’s... Weird af.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Anti-trans activists “from the Left” joined right-wing Heritage Foundation to rail against trans people

Trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, use a veneer of progressivism and feminism to advocate against trans equality

Brianna January at MMFA: 

On January 28, the vehemently anti-LGBTQ advocate Ryan T. Anderson hosted a panel attacking the Equality Act, a bill that would add “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to existing nondiscrimination laws, and the talk featured several “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” or TERFs. TERFs claim trans identities threaten women’s safety and equality and actively work to deny their existence and rights. During the event, the panelists, who were identified as "from the Left," demeaned transgender people and used anti-trans language, with one saying, “It’s not a fucking ‘she’” in reference to transgender women.

The event was held at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that has railed against LGBTQ equality for decades. The New York Times has written that the group is “stocking Trump’s government,” including by recommending “some of the most prominent members of Trump’s cabinet.” Anderson, a senior research fellow, is one of the group’s most vocal anti-LGBTQ figures. He wrote an entire book dedicated to denying trans identities and reportedly helped craft the Trump-Pence trans military ban.

TERFs, who often refer to themselves as “gender-critical” or “radical feminists,” are anti-trans activists who are becoming increasingly visible. They have historically opposed trans-inclusive measures and denied trans identities. In 2018, TERF groups throughout the United Kingdom lobbied against improving the country’s Gender Recognition Act of 2004, a “piece of legislation regulating how trans people can legally change [their] genders” that currently “requires trans people to jump through numerous hoops to ‘prove’ that” they are trans. TERFs have cited the thoroughly debunked myth that allowing trans people, in particular trans women, to access restrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity poses a threat to women’s safety.

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The act of misgendering -- which LGBTQ-inclusive education advocacy organization GLSEN defines as “the experience of being labeled by others as a gender other than one that a person identifies with” -- is considered harassment, and it stigmatizes trans people, lowers their self-esteem, and erases and invalidates their identities.

[radfemblog]

"No wonder young “transgender” people commit suicide. They are trying to find themselves and figure things out and when they seek help they are told that they have no option but to change themselves if they want to be loved. No one tells them that they are perfect just as they are. No one tells them that there are many ways to live. No one says “Hey, I made it … I am happily married, I have a good life … it will get better … I was a lot like you in High School and I am glad that I kept my body as it is and/or that I learned to love myself for who I am.” Many people who are diagnosed as transgender may not be aware that there are lots of ways to live outside of the gender lines. More perspectives need to be shared so that young people can decide for themselves what what resonates, and feels right for them. How else can we reduce the risk? One reader on Tumblr offered some simple but powerful advice  that seems to me compassionate and practical–no matter what your position may be on the wisdom of “transition” or a transgender identity: The real way to reduce the rate of suicide among transgender teens: 1. Stop telling people that they have to hurry up and transition or they’ll regret it for the rest of their life. They can transition later and have a happy life."

[radfemblog]

putatively

[officerhop-blog]

@ terfs we fucking get it you took 10th grade biology please just stop

[scarlet-void]

This guest post by "fightingunreality," a regular commenter on this blog, is the second in an ongoing series of accounts by women who at one time experienced gender dysphoria or the desire to becom...

[tonidorsay]

Continuing the tradition still... I take a few moments each day to read certain tags and when something pops out at me, I comment on it, like I am about to do. This is an example of just how disconnected from the reality of the world thanks to the hate they feel for trans people. Note carefully how they describe this "parent who questions": Rare. They are describing the way that most parents of trans kids react -- the single most common issue among parents of trans kids, and a major part of the harm to trans people that is documented and known -- as a rarity, as something unlikely to happen. Kinda hard to be honest when you start thinking that way. They use a fairly standard concern -- one, in fact, that is behind much of the unethical reparative therapies that are used on trans people -- that is inevitably something that every person dealing with trans people is familiar with, and that the evidence has already shown is the best possible methodology since one takes the lead from the child when it is properly done, and says this is a bad idea. That is, they say that something that 100 years plus of science has shown is is a good idea, and she says without any sort of real, substantive knowledge in the specific subject matter, that she is right and they are wrong. Hubris? No. Hate makes them do that. Not hubris. The hubris comes into play with the whole thinking that no one is going to call them out on their complete and utter disconnect from reality. Then, to support their whole premise, they cite a comment by someone who has likely less knowledge of the topic than they do. Ignorance and incompetence, multiplied. This is why "gender critical" folks like 4thwavenow are always liars, and why when you are an expert in the lives of trans people, you can readily and easily demonstrate just how they lie. Hate doesn't breed hate. It breeds ignoramuses.