Today’s guest Transadvocate is polerin. Her bio on Twitter states: “Trans woman, radical lefty, wannabe cartoonist, geek, phreakNIC director, web developer, person. Will eat for food, and rock your face off. Or on. On is good.”
Inspired by the TERF’s posting and commenting at The Magazine Project.
You insult us.
You claim we are ruining everything.
You sourly say “Well I’m glad YOU are happy but everyone else is mistaken.”
You describe us as the scum of the Earth…
Then cry foul when we dare argue back against your cissplaining.
Sorry, it doesn’t work like that.
I’m not oppressing you, I’ve got no power to do so. As much as it may hurt you to hear this, what you are doing is classic oppression. You are ganging up with the forces of social conservatism to deny us medical care, to attempt to legislate us out of existence, and to attempt to shame and frighten us back into the closet.
You load us up with all these false circular arguments, you shift goalposts, you consistently work to waste our time and energy, our love, and our caring.
We reach out time after time to show you we are not the monsters you assume, we try to respond to your concerns, only to find time and again you ignore what we have to say and just respond with the same script.
You say that my existence reinforces the gender binary, is anti-feminist, and that I’m just a pervert who’s wearing a woman suit.
You say that my life helps kill women by reinforcing a culture of a oppression against them, and yet you fail to see how your words and actions kill trans women by helping to support a culture that oppresses trans people.
You assert that you really trying to make life better for everyone, that you really care, and yet the words you use are full of hate and fear.
So you know what? It’s your turn.
Prove to me that I’m wrong. Prove to me that I’m hurting feminism, lesbian culture, or women in general by my continued existence on this planet. Because I say it’s YOU who is doing that. I’ve done my proving, thread after thread, interaction after interaction, and simply by living my life.
Your hate.
Your fear.
Your unreasoned flailing and logical fallacies.
Your telling my wife that she’s a waste of a perfectly good lesbian.
Your telling me that my happiness and rights mean nothing.
Your willingness to put aside your own theory in order to better hate me.
Your Turn.
cross posted from Teh Rain
The exclusionists are hurting Feminism, Marti, much like the hard core HBS’rs with their pursuit of purity and incresingly stringent standards of admission. Aside from hating the whiff of testosterone about anything, I’ve yet to see much feminism as I learned it from my Profesora at Complutense or at Liverpool where I went to hear Luce Irigaray speak coming from any kind of exxclusory organisation or individual.