for the love of god separate the word TERF from the man hating ugly dyke feminist you made up in your head. it is a group founded on the exclusion of trans women from women’s spaces, everything else grows from that ideology. it is not a word for when feminist theory makes you mad. it is NOT when women hate men.
if i have to see another person call a trans woman a TERF for saying she doesn’t like men i’m gonna start hitting people with axes
you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are dangerous and need to be excluded. you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are their sisters who need saving. you will find TERFs who are themselves transmasculine. you will find racist tradwife TERFs. you will find black lesbian TERFs. you will find TERFs who commit to political lesbianism. you will find TERFs who are quite happy to have a husband and work with fascist men. (a lot of those actually)
you’re not going to find transfeminine TERFs. because the foundation of TERFism is the exclusion of trans women.
taking words coined to describe the specific oppression of trans women and cutting us out of their definitions is transmisogyny. turning around and using those words against us is fucking revolting.
transmisogyny is not sparkling transphobia, it is hatred of trans women. TERFism is not Feminism I Don’t Like, it is TRANS EXCLUSIONARY RADICAL FEMINISM
also let me assure you that if you walked into a discussion of transmisogyny with “sex based oppression” on your lips you are 100% closer to TERF ideology than the person telling you that transmasculine people are capable of oppressing trans women.
way too many fucking people seem to think TERFs exist because the feminism’d too hard and accidentally started hating trannies. no, actually, transmisogyny is a foundational part of colonial and christian society and they shaped their feminism around it.
*with the caveat that there are some transfems who get roped into TERF ideology, but they are not the girls who discuss transmisogyny