Fear of men isn’t “quite niche”. Read the relationships board occasionally and you’ll see daily posts about men being abusive and physically violent towards the women and children who trust them.
Having safe spaces for women which can’t be infiltrated by men, regardless of how they present, or claim to identify, is a right that women don’t want to give up. Women have fought for decades for our own rights to life in public spaces and being pushed back to make way for males who claim to do womanhood better than we do is sickening.
I don’t want men (adult males of any physical presentation or identity) in womens changing rooms, DV shelters, rape counselling, medical settings (where specifically requested), changing rooms unless solid floor to ceiling doors are used, crime stats, women only events, lesbian events, prisons, swimming sessions, awards or shortlists, diversity quotas and incentives, Facebook groups, breastfeeding support groups, women’s health literature and screening campaigns, or anywhere that women need to be the focus for their own safety, protection and ability to participate fully in public life.
That’s what I mean when I say I’m a TERF. Does it mean I want all trans people to die in a grease fire or be sent to the gulag? No, that violent and intolerant rhetoric comes from the other side.
“Bash a TERF”, “a good day for killing terfs” “enjoy your erasure”, photos of them brandishing weapons and talking about how “cis women” deserve violence, doxxing, threats to have people arrested, people actually BEING arrested for wrongthink and pronoun crimes - none of that has helped their cause tbh.
But even if they’d gone about the brainwashing, sterilisation and mutilation of young people in a peaceful way I would still have issue with the fundamentals of this movement.
So if that’s what anti-trans means, yes I am. I prefer to think of it as pro-women, pro-facts, pro-reality, Pro-safeguarding, anti-cheating, anti-violence, anti-hate-speech, anti-misogyny, pro-women’s choices, pro-dignity, anti-unnecessary medical procedures, pro-fairness, pro-accurate record keeping. But whatever. You do you boo.