Hadean Taiga

Trans joy, intersectionalism, feminism

“if one bigoted radfem represents us all then all trans women murder lesbians like dana rivers and all trans women rape their moms like chris chan”

This is an ask I received from a radfem on Tumblr earlier today, and here is my response:

The radfem is using a rather serious logical fallacy here, the fallacy of false equivalence:

  • Feminism is an ideology
  • Gender is a trait

It's like the difference between saying “Black lives matter” and “Cop lives matter”. Being a cop is a job, being black is not.

Using the radfem's logic though, it's ok to say, “if one bigoted cop represents them all, then all black men are serial killers because of this famous black serial killer”.

I hope everyone is able to see how incredibly racist that it.

Here's the thing: racists already use this logic. I've seen them do it! You have too! Remember when Trump tried to paint all Mexican immigrants as evil murderers based on a single incident? Bigots love to paint marginalized people as evil based on the acts of individuals.

And yet here this radfem is using the same logic and language as racists, the KKK, Nazis, and other white supremacists.

No wonder their people are quoting Hitler. They just have to switch out Jews for trans people, et voila. Hitler hated trans and gay people too, for the record. There's probably a passage from something he wrote that talks about how much he hates trans and gay people. I'm sure it'll be found and quoted soon.

Next.

It's not just “one bigoted radfem”. It's not just Lisa Morgan, the “gender critical” feminist who quoted Mein Kampf. It's not just this radfem, using the logic of racists in my inbox.

It's many of them being bigoted, because their ideology has become bigoted. Gender critical, TERF, radfem, it all means the same thing these days. They're all equally responsible for bolstering the bigoted politicians on the far right who are legislating the waves of transphobia, sexism and misogyny that are hurting people across the world.

How many people were at the rally in Newcastle? Around 400. That's the Posie Parker rally where Lisa Morgan quoted Mein Kampf and compared trans people to Jews and brought back the Nazi concept of “the big lie”. The women there cheered for her. This is not “just one woman”.

Both online and off, radfems, TERFs, “gender critical” feminists and other transphobic people are causing incredible harm.

It's bigotry.

Research has just come out showing that lesbians overwhelmingly love and support trans people, including trans men.

This is incredible. There are some very loud voices online claiming that “true” lesbians hate men, hate males, and could never date or even support a trans person.

The idea that lesbians as a whole are transphobic is in fact lesphobic. Lesbians are actually even more supportive of trans people than the general LGBTQ community!

Lesbians as a community are huge trans allies.

New research by Just Like Us has found that lesbians are the most likely of the whole LGBTQ+ community to be supportive of trans people.

Exclusionists are part of a small, loud minority. 92-96% of lesbians are supportive to very supportive of trans people.

Butch women and trans men are in fact one community. There is an unbroken spectrum from butch to transmasc. There is such an overlap between us it is call the trans-butch cusp.

Trans and lesbian solidarity is stronger than the crybabies.

The exclusionists can go bigoted and alone. No one agrees with them.

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I think we all need to be very clear on what was said at the rally where a transphobic woman cited Mein Kampf.

It was not ambiguous.

It was not in any way something you could interpret or spin as her “quoting Hitler to rebut him”.

She directly quoted Hitler and agreed with him and used his terminology exactly the same way he used it. She just changed the target from Jewish people to trans people.

“Do you know the big lie? The big lie was first described by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf.

“The big lie is such a big lie that ordinary people like us think, ‘Well, that can’t be a lie because I would never tell such a big lie as that. We only lie in small ways.’

“The big lie, well there is one big lie going on, and it was begun by men in the early part of the 20th century. It began when they had an erotic fantasy and they decided they were going to sell us the big lie – and what is the big lie?

“The big lie is that trans women are women. But they’re not are they? They’re men and we know that.”

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This is NAZI behavior.

This woman is a NAZI. She is quoting Hitler, she is using his terminology the exact same way he used it, and she is agreeing with him. She is not only transphobic, she is antisemitic.

Period.

There is no way on Earth you can interpret this speech to mean “she was disagreeing with Hitler”.

You can't.