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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

"Resisting TERF’s and Transforming Their Organizations"

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 27/05/2020 15:02

medium.com/@laura.izaguirre/resisting-terfs-and-transforming-their-organizations-95cd21714fc8

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TERF’s — Trans Exclusive Regressive Fascists — are tools of the far right/alt-right establishment of America and the UK. They are bigots who promote transphobia as a political stance. They exist as agent provocateurs tasked with preventing the LGBTQ community from gelling into a cohesive political force that can oppose fascism. They claim to be “lesbians” and “feminists” while functioning as proxies for the white male oligarchs that seek to bury any and all queerness and to trap women in servitude.
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You make a group that does everything the TERF group does, but without the unnecessary hate. Yet the TERF group finds a way to persist. Now what?
A gradual strategy that can succeed is infiltration and replacement. Entryism is a century old non-violent tactic that works in any group that uses voting to determine leadership. Gather a group of like-minded allies, join the group, and then vote one another into key positions. Attract more via outreach and over time the group will be geared toward promoting social justice and human rights.
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So what’s next after that? Direct action.
Direct action is where you go from targeting an institutional or organization to singling out the key leaders and propellants of hate. History shows that when singled out, many bigots will renege on their hateful ideas and begin to reform. And if they don’t, then their communities can expel them.
TERF’s, like all Nazis, have no right to a peaceful existence or steady employment. They have declared their support of fascism and have therefore declared their intent to directly harm the trans community wherever they’re found. They threaten the safety and dignity of others and therefore deserve none themselves until they choose to be human once more.
The usual caveats to the direct action approach apply. Be careful of misidentifying people. Attacking bystanders just makes TERF’s look sympathetic. Don’t do anything you can’t handle the consequences of.
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Control access to safe spaces
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Doxxing is another effective tool
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Property damage is another escalation up the chain of direct action
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What about bodily harm against bigots? Is that a valid tactic? Yes, but with important considerations.
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It’s important to avoid killing

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Datun · 27/05/2020 15:05

I'm not going to click on it, cos you know, mad. and illegal

Michelleoftheresistance · 27/05/2020 15:07

They really are losing the mask now.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 27/05/2020 15:07

"TERF's"? What's the apostrophe for, all the way through? Oh dear.

OvaHere · 27/05/2020 15:08

Sounds like incitement to violence. What a shock.

MsTSwift · 27/05/2020 15:11

The person that wrote that sounds quite unwell

EmpressLangClegInChair · 27/05/2020 15:13

I expect they own a pink, white & blue baseball bat.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 27/05/2020 15:13

It's horrific - at first I thought it was quite funny, but yes, it's definitely an incitement to violence, and more than one TRA is unhinged enough.

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terryleather · 27/05/2020 15:13

All accusations are admissions.

They've been doing this forever...

Michelleoftheresistance · 27/05/2020 15:17

You're not supposed to say the quiet bit loud Wink

Needs reporting for form's sake, if for no other reason than to watch the police squirm, and screenshotting before someone with a clue disappears it.

NonnyMouse1337 · 27/05/2020 15:19

Dearie me..... They do sound unwell.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 27/05/2020 15:22

screenshotting before someone with a clue disappears it

Archive.li isn't working properly for me right now, but it's showing as archived.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 27/05/2020 15:25

Archived here: archive.li/weVYH

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Shedbuilder · 27/05/2020 15:26

Has anyone ever done any analysis to see whether poor punctuation and adherence to trans ideology are linked?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/05/2020 15:45

This Laura person wrote something else which was stunningly misogynistic a couple of months ago, I think?

Oncewasblueandyellowtwo · 27/05/2020 15:47

Archived web pg (I think!)

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Oncewasblueandyellowtwo · 27/05/2020 15:48

Itsall sorry xposted.

Good to have a few archives anyway.I'll screen shot it just in case.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/05/2020 15:49

This isn't the one I'm thinking of but it's lovely too Hmm

https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/who-are-the-victims-we-should-believe-8f02d85408c

A difficult reality faces the #MeToo movement: we have to acknowledge that not all women are going to have the same credibility. We should definitely believe victims. What we need to be careful of is determining exactly who the victims really are. TERF’s and other fascist bootlickers are never credible— they will lie about anything to seize power over others. We must find a way to believe the women who are worth believing. Tempering the axiom of “believe all women” with situational guidelines is the key.

SunsetBeetch · 27/05/2020 15:52

This sounds so scarily fascistic.

I notice they mention Mitchfest, but not the transwoman who was instrumental in protesting Mitchfest,who ended up murdering a family. Funny that.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/05/2020 16:01

I think it was this spittle flecked rant:

https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/the-problem-with-using-terf-dfc9cc0e7f4b

With a shout out to our "transphobic internet den" Grin

And as for TERF’s? They use an outdated definition of woman: “adult human female.” They push this definition so much it’s become a gate symbol emblematic of the group. Samantha Hancox-Li points out the originn of its use goes back to Mumsnet Towers in 2015, a trans phobic Internet den. Right-wing activist Posie Parker made the phrase big in 2018 using money from the Heritage Foundation and American evangelicals. It’s a term created by conservatives and spread by TERF’s because of how it preserves the oppressive hierarchy.^

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/05/2020 16:03

Funny that.

Isn't it?

CaraDune · 27/05/2020 16:05

And they wonder why we don't want nutcases like this in our spaces...

SunsetBeetch · 27/05/2020 16:08

This person is deeply troubling:

twitter.com/underhandrea/status/1265659751679098881?s=19

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/05/2020 16:09

It's nice knowing that Laura and Laura's not at all unhinged friends think that as gender critical feminists we're not worthy of being believed if we are raped Hmm

Lordfrontpaw · 27/05/2020 16:11

Uh-huh. And we are the ones who aren’t in the ‘real world’. Utterly bonkers.

FernPotts · 27/05/2020 16:14

What a load of tosh.

It doesn’t take ‘right wing US groups’ to persuade me that my relative is and remains female, nor that the chap from the sports club is and remains male. (I mean, he’s fathered three kids. It’s pretty conclusive proof.)

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