the first thing to know about TERFs is that they believe trans men/AFAB non-binary people don’t exist, at least not *really*. We’re just poor victims of social contagion, unable to stand up against peer pressure to become the patriarchy.

Fuck that.
It is patriarchy to treat me like a victim when I choose to self-determine my identity. It is patriarchy to assume that because I have a uterus I must therefore wish to connect it with ~womanhood~ and ~mothering~. It is patriarchy to erase who I am in the name of your feminism.
I’m not “escaping” womanhood. I never was a woman to begin with, so what am I “escaping” but society’s assumptions about who I am and what I must be because of my biology? Isn’t my self-determination about who I am the ultimate project of feminism?
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