Thread by @lisaquestions

Watching more and more people draw explicit connections and comparisons from the "GC" movement to fascism and constantly remembering people who insisted for years that the GC movement is itself not inherently fascist

The cool stuff here is it's all stuff that's been pointed out over and over again by multiple people, even with direct comparisons to various definitions of fascism but it's somehow more important to acknowledge Julie Bindel's done good work than that she wants trans people gone.

There's no common ground. There's no compromise. Nothing will be good enough for them but ending our ability to exist as trans people. They openly fantasize about sending us to concentration camps, compare us to groups like Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Stasi, constantly promote

fear-mongering lies about us claiming that trans women and trans feminine people are covert predators trying to use femininity as a disguise to gain access to cis women and girls, or transitioning to dominate women's sports. And trans men and trans masculine people infantilized

as prey of the former group, falsely described as having been "groomed" into being trans, and the subject of a literal great replacement/white genocide type theory in which the existence of trans men and trans mascs is positioned as lesbian extermination.

And the thing is, every single transphobic organization and person is using the very same arguments. Whether they call themselves feminists, philosophers, or white supremacists, they all say *exactly the same things*.

So fuck decorum, fuck respectability: the anti-trans movement is a fascist movement. They don't have to fucking call themselves fascists to be espousing fascist values. Refer to this if you have any questions. openculture.com/2016/11/umbert…

I'm just tired. Right now the zeitgeist is moving on to acknowledging this entire movement is fascist, and I hope the people who continued to resist that characterization will at last see it for what it is.

It's not hysteria, it's not "I don't like them therefore they're fascists," it's not trying to call them the worst thing possible to try to get people to take them seriously. It's a factual observation.

Beth Elliott pointed it out in the early 70s in response to Robin Morgan's antifeminist and anti-woman rant about Beth specifically and trans women in general after Beth left the 1973 West Coast Lesbian conference under threat of potentially lethal violence.

Janice Raymond's hate screeds in the mid-70s got Olivia Records boycotted and some so-called "feminist" groups threatened to literally shoot up their shows if Sandy Stone showed up. Raymond herself contended that

On her webpage she clarifies she never meant to say she wanted all trans people exterminated, she just wants them tortured into being cis. Totally different guys, and not even slightly similar to any genocides ever committed <s>

Incidentally I understand that the UN definition of genocide codified in 1948 specifies certain types of groups and not others. It should be noted that while this happened in direct response to the Holocaust, queer victims of the concentration camps were left in prison and the

crimes *against* them were not at the time considered to be crimes. And that in a lot of the western world, queerness was considered a pathology and often illegal. So I hope people will forgive me if I don't take a definition that excludes queer people coined during a time when

homophobia and transphobia were considered normal and heavily backed by law at all levels of society to be the ideal definition.