Thread by @Ghillie_Guide

"He regarded women and men as naturally and essentially different in complimentary ways that lead to reproduction, and believed anyone who did not fit the stereotypes of their gender such as inverts should be removed from the reproductive stream."
sex realism = eugenics

quote is about Richard von Krafft-Ebing
eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/conne…

You can't be an ally to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual people if you are a "sex realist" it's indivisible with pathologization of homosexuality as mental illness

Eugenics is invested in controlling reproduction and it does this by focusing on differences to dehumanize

Concerns about gender-affirming care is explicitly concern about controlling reproduction; they fear-monger specifically about people becoming sterilized

It's always white supremacists who want more white babies most invested; whether it's "sex" or "race" realism
#Eugenics

This isn't particularly new in Feminism

TERFs didn't make up "sex realism" it fits snugly in the tradition of white supremacist imperial colonialism
eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/conne…

I like feminism that's critical of this history and aware of how it's been used and continues to be used for white supremacy, to be clear

I'm not explicitly anti-feminist but also not willing to ignore or excuse the evils of white feminism

https://twitter.com/Ghillie_Guide/status/1534208543124901889

These discussions of "sex realism" don't go directly to topics of how we structure societies and their future by accident

It's not a mistake that they want you to think about the future of all humanity when discussing this; our values, beliefs, and assumptions
#Eugenics

There's a reason they focus so heavily on "healthy families" and social structure
eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/conne…

I can only assume the change in language is tied to a change in strategy

At this point they have enough support for their ideas they can just market them freely without needing to dogwhistle; emboldened by their arguments being featured on some of the largest platforms

[The term “trans” derives from the earlier term “invert,” used to describe anyone who would now identify as gay, lesbian, trans, or otherwise queer. In Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing developed the first taxonomical system of inversion.]
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"Havelock Ellis famously naturalized Krafft-Ebing’s psychiatric category of inversion. Ellis was a eugenicist"

"Ellis’s naturalistic account of inversion eventually led to the creation of the terms “transvestite” by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and “transsexual” by Dr. Harry Benjamin"

"One of the consistent facets of eugenics over time and place has been an interest in regulating sexual behavior, sexual orientation, and gender expression. Indeed, this is one area in which the insidious quest of normalization associated with eugenics movement is very evident."

eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/conne…

"Ellis concurred with the notion that there was a system of racial hierarchies, and that non-western cultures were considered to be "lower races". ... he used the prevalence of homosexuality in these 'lower races' to indicate the universality of the behavior."

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