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Why do so many queer exclusionists rely on radfem rhetoric and eventually slide down into TERF ideology?
Because they HAVE to kill trans people. In order for queer exclusion to work, trans people have to be dead and out of the picture.
Why do so many queer exclusionists rely on radfem rhetoric and eventually slide down into TERF ideology?
Because they HAVE to kill trans people. In order for queer exclusion to work, trans people have to be dead and out of the picture.
The trans community has built it's power & resilience on the motion that "You cannot define my identity in ANY way. Only I get to do that."
We rejected the notion that being trans required some objective, physical component and said "You will respect me for who I say I am."
We rejected the notion that being trans required some objective, physical component and said "You will respect me for who I say I am."
And exclusionists haaaaaaate that, because it bled into the queer community at large back in, like, the 80's and 90's.
Together with our cis queer comrades, we showed the world that queerness is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Together with our cis queer comrades, we showed the world that queerness is descriptive, not prescriptive.
We showed the world that queerness doesn't fit into tiny, neatly-defined and categorized boxes. That those boxes the world tried to force us into were DESIGNED from the get go to be shaped by cishet prejudice and bias and support racial & patriarchal gender oppressions.
Queerness is a living thing. And like any living thing, it's biology is messy. We apply our names to it's components, but they exist independent of our identification. If lion's were called elephants instead, you'd never know the difference & they'd still be what they are.
The trans community is living proof of that. Two of the binaries most fundamental to the way our society is currently shaped - sex and gender - are NOTHING. Our existence proves that they are malleable and exist only as gross generalizations.
So of COURSE queerness is also malleable! It's fluid! There is no physical law or property of the universe that says queer people cannot fit under more than one label. Or that their labels can't change many times, over time.
And, dear reader, this is a comment specifically to you for you to chew on and reflect over.
Your trauma at the hands of cishet oppression is regrettable and pitiable, but irrelevant.
Your trauma at the hands of cishet oppression is regrettable and pitiable, but irrelevant.
You are oppressed by cishets.
You are not oppressed by other queer people.
It doesn't fucking MATTER what excuses a cishet give you for why they thought what they did or said to you was okay.
You are not oppressed by other queer people.
It doesn't fucking MATTER what excuses a cishet give you for why they thought what they did or said to you was okay.
They are a full fucking individual human being, capable of independent thought and action. Stop removing their agency from the context and coddling them.
Blaming other queer people for their actions carries the same energy as the fucking Gay/Trans Panic Defense.
Blaming other queer people for their actions carries the same energy as the fucking Gay/Trans Panic Defense.
