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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2018-11-17

"It's amazing how transphobes really think trans women need to give up our aesthetics, our interests, our fetishes, in the name of some nebulous Greater Gender Good. Folks, you get one life. You don't need to box yourself in for someone else's ideology. Enjoy yourself." -- Zinnia Jones, 2017-11-28

"I've presented in just about every variation of femme, butch, high, low, and so on over the years, and at absolutely every point, transphobes were calling me a 'caricature' and 'stereotype'. Face it: transphobes just hate women" -- Zinnia Jones, 2017-12-06

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posted by [personal profile] corylea at 03:20pm on 2018-11-17
An awful lot of people seem to hate women! I figure trans women must REALLY feel themselves to be female, because nobody sane would sign up for the cultural disadvantages of being a woman if they didn't have to.

Not that I hate being a woman, myself; I just hate the way the world assumes I have to be a lesser creature because I don't have a dick, when those things look stupid anyway. :-)
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 08:08pm on 2018-11-17
I've long noted that TERFs' primary objection to transwomen seems to be, deep down, that transwomen value womanhood. They'll deny it, of course, but their rabid arguments all seem to wind up circling back around this point: how dare someone who has the option not to live as a woman chose to live as a woman; such a person must be acting in bad faith because it couldn't possibly be that anyone could want to be a woman. Which is to say, internalized misogyny. The fervidness of their objections seems to be rooted in how the existence of transwomen invalidates their unacknowledged premise that there's nothing about being a woman which doesn't completely suck.
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posted by [personal profile] selki at 04:46pm on 2018-11-19
Datapoint: The one TERF I knew in person resented them because to her, they hadn't grown up with womens' challenges (e.g., being talked over/dismissed, and worse) and she thought they would take over all feminist discussions with their male-growing-up habits of mind.
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