Are Feminists Transphobic?

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May 19, 2023
Penna Dexter

Are Feminists Transphobic? - Point of View - Point of View

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I’ve wondered about that too.  Feminism would elevate people born women, not those who decide they are women.

I looked it up and there is a traditional radical feminist who is a TERF and doesn’t believe men can become women. It used to be the norm among radical feminists, but has been changed to be derogatory, right about the same the public narrative changed.

TERF (/t??rf/) is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist

First recorded in 2008, the term was originally used to distinguish transgender-inclusive feminists from a group of radical feminists and social conservatives who reject the assertion that trans women are women, including trans women in women's spaces, and transgender rights legislation. Trans-inclusive feminists who support transfeminism assert that these "TERF" ideas and positions are transphobic and discriminatory towards transgender people. The use of the term TERF has since broadened to include reference to people with trans-exclusionary views who are not necessarily involved with radical feminism.

Though TERF was created to be a "deliberately technically neutral description", the term is now typically considered derogatory or disparaging. People labeled TERFs often reject the label, instead describing their beliefs as gender critical. In academic discourse, there is no clear consensus on whether TERF constitutes a slur. Critics of the label have pointed to its usage alongside insulting or abusive rhetoric, and described it as a "bullying tool", while other academics have argued that this alone does not make it a slur.

Showtalk said...

I’ve wondered about that too.  Feminism would elevate people born women, not those who decide they are women.

Correct, but throughout the years, those people have been more or less sidelined because their stance doesn't fit the LGBTQ narrative and thus they were pushed aside.

From the mid 1980's anytime somebody rallied a straight pride agenda (vs gay pride parade), the LGBTQ community would turn up 10-fold and totally outnumber those who were pro-straight with boisterous upheavals to the point that most of those pro-straight people were basically scared off. Those pro-straight people were attacked, doxed, slandered, threatened, you name it.

And it's only gotten worse since then.

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The TERF term was for radical feminists. 

Today, the LGBTQ community call anybody who doesn't like men with penises undressing in women's locker rooms TERF, but in reality, all today's women want is their own feminine privacy without being looked at by men with penises in their locker rooms. 

In the early years, those men who claimed to be women were called perverts, today, those who denounce the perverts are called anti-trans!

And that folks... is where we are at today.

They force their radical ways upon you and your only choice is accept them or get attacked, doxed, slandered, fired from your jobs and get death threats... only because you don't feel safe with men claiming to be women in your women's locker rooms or toilets/showers!

The only radical thing here is the men claiming to be women and haunting women who don't approve!!!

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Yes is has gotten much worse.

So why even have separate locker rooms? Maybe all schools need coed changing facilities. Then there would be no arguments.   Just kidding, of course.

It's like I've been saying for over 20 years now...

If you don't like the boy scouts or the girl scouts, create your own gay scouts or lesbian scouts or non-binary scouts or any one of the other 97 or more gender scouts, but leave the boy scouts and girl scouts alone. They are for the biological binary sex people.

And if you don't like the men's toilet/shower room or the women's toilet/shower room, create your own gay or lesbian or non-binary or any one of the other 97 gender toilets/showers, but leave the men's toilets/showers and women's toilets/showers alone. They are for the biological binary sex people.

Nobody is forcing them to do anything. It's them forcing their agenda upon the rest of us... and they are the minority forcing their will upon the majority. But for over 20 years, nobody seems to have been able to stop them from forcing their way upon the rest of us.

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They did that here with family bathrooms that are for anyone. They are single room bathrooms. They are gender free.