Mother of trans child attacked by TERFs

[Guest LizMarie]

Those of you who so strenuously defend the TERFs, and try to assert some level of moral equivalence between TERFs and transwomen (because it's transwomen they primarily attack) need to stop and look at this.

Remember the mother who stood up for her little girl who had been assigned male at birth? She has become to target of vicious social media attacks by the TERF community. And some of the assertions of the TERFs are absurd. How does a three year old child use "male privilege" to force her way into being accepted as a female?

http://www.transadvocate.com/mom-confronts-terf-bigotry-aimed-at-her-family_n_14280.htm

The TERF movement is a pure hate movement. It deliberately ignores the latest results from neurobiology and from embryology, it ignores the recommendations of the AMA and APA, and they go out of their way to target, attack, demean, defame, and dehumanize transwomen. The TERF community has members who have celebrated transwomen's deaths. Transwomen don't go looking for fights with TERFs and usually only react to such bigotry. That's a rather important difference. Transwomen don't choose to be the bigots here; the TERFs do. When transwomen say unkind things towards TERFs it's almost always because of such vicious attacks having come from the TERFs first.

People should remember these things. This mother didn't even know who the TERFs were, let alone approach them. She was attacked by them first.

[Guest ashleynikole]

:: Stands up and applauds ::

That mother totally took their logic to task. I only wish I had been more vocal at an earlier age like her daughter, but perhaps my dysphoria just wasn't as strong and needed to build up before I really felt the sting of it.

Good for her for standing up.

Ashley

[Carolyn Marie]

Ms. Jackson writes extremely well. Thanks for sharing that, LM.

Carolyn Marie

[Guest KimberlyF]

I always recommend people judge each other as individuals instead of by titles. Esp something like TERF, as it is something that one doesn't call themselves, it is assigned to them by others.

It is hard to talk of what this mother has faced as there are no direct quotes. I've always said it isn't a position I would ever want to find myself, because at the moment I don't know what the right answer is, and any way one goes, there will be judgements made, though I'm sure however this plays out the mother thinks she's doing what's best based for her child on the current info she has.

Social media is not a place for the timid. There is a whole lot of anger and very little actual discussion. I have no clue what kind of person can make a death threat towards another, but they are going back and forth.

The word TERF is becoming meaningless even beyond how it started as it is now used by many in the community to silence anyone who is critical of another's ideas. This is an example that was forwarded to me a while ago. There is a word that is blocked. You can play guessing games if you want.

This was a Trans woman's reply to another Trans woman, who also happens to write for Transadvocate. Parker Molloy's crime that started the problem? She had the opinion that it was creepy when women over 25 or so called themselves girl. Not trans women. Any women. She was looking at it from a feminist perspective.

She was also put on a blocking program for a short time that protects transwomen from TERFs. Parker Molloy. I know, right?

When transwomen say unkind things towards TERFs it's almost always because of such vicious attacks having come from the TERFs first.

I totally agree. Parker is a vicious vicious TERF.

[Cyndee]

The word TERF is becoming meaningless even beyond how it started as it is now used by many in the community to silence anyone who is critical of another's ideas.

Truly

Evil

Raging

Female

[Guest Mia J]

TERFs do a lot of damage to others but also to themselves in their vicious attacks on others who are not radical feminists. Their rhetoric sounds like the extremists in the 70s who put down anything male. I know a couple of people in my own spiritual community who are very anti trans. Any MTF is just trying to infiltrate them and any FTM is a traitor to her sisters.

Mia

[Guest LizMarie]

History of the term TERF:

http://www.transadvocate.com/terf-what-it-means-and-where-it-came-from_n_13066.htm

TERF was created by cisgender radical feminists to distinguish trans exclusionary radical feminists from other trans inclusive radical feminists. Transwomen began to use the term only after other radical feminists began to use the term to distinguish themselves from this particular hate group.

To argue that a term is "losing its meaning" because a few people misuse it is absurd.