I’ve discussed in the over 6500 posts on this blog (and had fun eviscerating ) these seven transphobic tropes that seem to constantly pop into articles about this community and radfem hate screeds.
Questioning Transphobia has a excellent series of articles that eviscerate the seven most common anti-trans arguments. And you know as a TransGriot public service I’m going to make it easy for you to find them.
Thanks to Questioning Transphobia’s Queen Emily for the hard solid thinking and work that went into this series of articles.
Trope 1 – “Really” a Man / Woman
Trope 2 – “Patriarchal Privilege”
Trope 3 – “Reifying Gender”
Trope 4 – “My Theories Are More Important Than Your Experience”
Trope 5 – The “Man in a Dress” / “Deceiver” Double Bind
Trope 6 – Mutilation
Trope 7 – Socialization As A Child
These links seem to be dead at the moment so here they are from the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130602094003/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=152
http://web.archive.org/web/20130602062546/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=166
http://web.archive.org/web/20130603045748/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=194
http://web.archive.org/web/20130602125917/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=303
http://web.archive.org/web/20130501082013/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=740
http://web.archive.org/web/20130602125913/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=1085
http://web.archive.org/web/20130602204837/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=2884