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boyslugs · 1 year

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tumblr stop recommending me terfs challenge! yes i am a feminist, but i am also hugely trans and believe intersectionality is the only way forward. yes i believe in deconstructing gender and gender roles but i also know how important gender is to people's sense of self, and that it's impossible to try to categorize gender more specifically than "a [gender] is defined as someone who identifies as a [gender]" without excluding someone, just like when in metaphysics my professor asked "define what a chair is" and then pulled out so many examples of "okay, by your definition a stool isnt a type of chair" and "what about bean bag chairs" or "that could be a table, which implies that all tables are chairs"

terfs and swerfs could be fighting for and with everyone against the oppressive systems we live under but they're so set in their ways that they refuse to see how the patriarchy harms men too, or how even if the porn industry has a lot of problems, many people of all genders enjoy sex work and are fulfilled by choosing it as a career path, or how a lot of the things trans people are fighting for would result in a better world for everyone- but it's easier to just say "rights for me but all men are evil oppressors and trans people are either traumatised or are evil and anyone doing sw is coerced or damaging our fight"

i could go on about this for way longer but i already have a bad feeling this might end up spreading further than i'd like so TO REITERATE:

TERFS AND SWERFS FUCK OFF. THERE IS NO LIBERATION FOR ONE UNLESS WE UPLIFT EVERYONE. INTERSECTIONALITY IS KEY. ok bye

#tegan rants #feminism #trans rights #sw rights #intersectional feminism #terfs fuck off #really i think a lot of radfems could be huge voices for feminism if they learned how to have nuance and be intersectional #infighting gets us nowhere but solidarity holds power #like #i'm transmasc and any time someone refers to me as anything woman or femme related i feel so uncomfortable #but i was still born in a female body and still get read as a woman a lot and still was raised as a girl #so i will always hold space in my heart for that little girl who didnt know why men were whistling at her in sweatpants and a hoodie #or why her classmates were making uncomfortable comments at far too young an age #but i also have detatched myself from femininity a lot now because i find euphoria in the ways i express masculinity #and i know trans ppl fighting for that right to expression will make space for women who have deeper voices or broader shoulders #or even women who would just prefer to be butch and cut their hair short #i will shut up now but be nice to each other and hold space for each other #there is no way forward without solidarity

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