positiveinpurple: morphodyke:tranarchist: medium.com/@katelynburns/im-a-trans-woman-and-i-
positiveinpurple: morphodyke: tranarchist: https://medium.com/@katelynburns/im-a-trans-woman-and-i-don-t-know-how-to-do-this-6958817a29b7 honestly everyone who’s not a trans woman should reblog this because way way too many of you are still falling for this shit. [ excerpt from the article “I’m a trans woman and I don’t know how to do this” by Katelyn Burns ]Cycles of Abuse TERFs have a system to their abusive cycle. Initially, smaller sock puppet accounts will gang up on a trans woman, sending insults, poking, prodding. They know our triggers by now. Mock our appearance, call us men, demand deep personal recountings of trauma to prove our oppression bonafides. None of it makes a difference. As soon as you say something even remotely useful to these abusers, they screenshot and disseminate it through their network. More prominent TERFs gleefully show off how fucked up these misogynistic, abusive men in dresses really are, which in turn triggers more harassment and abuse to their target and anyone supporting their target. If a transgression is large enough, the large media connected radical feminist accounts get involved. They’ll say things like “I’m trying to be open-minded but I just can’t ignore the evidence.” Except, they’re in on the system, This one-sidedness is by design. A design to crush trans women specifically. That’s how you end up with Hadley Freeman consistently writing transmisogynistic hottakes in The Guardian. The left-leaning British press is especially rife with TERFs who masquerade as rogue feminists, willing to speak “the unspeakable”. Except, they all write the same things in the same papers. Their views are the most commonly spoken but they insist on gaslighting trans women by pretending to be the threatened truth tellers. I call bullshit. How many of these women make a living by shitting on trans women? How many trans women make a living by being a columnist? The numbers are astounding, and not at all balanced. Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining. -- source link