Thread by @transadvocate

What is sex?
What is sex essentialism?
Why are TERFs toxic?
Why is #TERFlogic rooted in American right-wing gender ideology?
Why is trans analysis rooted in radical feminism?

Thread:

TERFs claim that they're not part of the American right-wing.

If that's so, why does the American right-wing think they are?

transadvocate.com/fake-radical-f…

Why do right-wing hate groups like the Westboro Baptist Church defend TERFs?

Why do right-wing pundits support TERFs?

Why do Tea Party politicians support TERFs?

Why do TERFs support normalizing right-wing hate group propaganda?

If TERFs represent "radical feminism", why were all the foundational radical feminist organizations trans-inclusive?

Why did TERFs threaten to murder members of the Olivia Collective, a trans-inclusive radfem org?

transadvocate.com/terf-violence-…

Why did TERFs physically beat the iconic radical feminist Robin Tyler?

transadvocate.com/that-time-terf…

Why was the Lesbian Avengers mobbed by TERFs? Why was a Lesbian Avenger threatened by a TERF with a knife?

theterfs.com/2014/09/02/the…

Here are critiques of the very sexed body binary TERFs (and the right-wing) promote as "science":

One critique is from a 1940s radical feminist.

The other is from the 2018 science journal Nature.

What did the iconic radical feminist Andrea Dworkin think about gender identity and the discrete body binary known as "male" and "female"?

Let's look at some (pre-New Age era) radical feminist analysis. Exactly how is this understanding of sex/gender different from trans feminist analysis?

When TERFs were trying to ostracize trans women from San Francisco (😂 ), why did the iconic radical feminist collective Lesbian Tide tell trans women that they'd be welcome there?

Here's the truth:

TERFs appropriated radical feminism. They colonized it.
In the era where #Boomer New Age ideas about the essential creative/restorative nature of "woman", TERFs used violence and mob rule to take "radical feminism" from the radical feminists.

All TERFs (and right-wing bigots) assert that "man" and "woman" are reducible to an essential attribute.

Moreover, they assert that this ontology isn't constructed by culture; instead, they assert it's ordained by Nature or God(s).

In fact, just like racists are hysterically obsessed with essentialist race ontology, TERFs are primarily obsessed with essentialist ontologies of sex and sexuality, and NOT the liberation of all women.

Actual Radical Feminists know this. Here's the Lesbian Tide mocking TERFs:

TERFs shouldn't be able to appropriate this rich radical feminist history, rich analysis, and community... but they do.

Like the racist, they mistakenly think liberation is realized through ontological purity.

Reject #TERFlogic. Resist purity tests. Reject their hate.