this pretending that cishet people have never looked at lesbians and other wlw-types as predatory threats to poor delicate straight women is bullshit. cishet people absolutely have (and some still do) looked at lesbian and bisexual women as “infringing upon the rights of [good heterosexual] women.” she’s denying old bigotry to kick the easier scapegoat of the day; don’t fall for that shit.
It’s worth noting that it’s not just similar rhetoric being used, it’s quite literally the same exact arguments being made. The main source of fearmongering these people bring up, about trans women “invading” women’s bathrooms and being predators and whatnot was made against lesbians (and queer women in general) before them, and made about black women before them.
They’ve been saying word for word the same shit for decades, they just shift the target once their previous one became socially unacceptable, and they’ll shift right back the moment they get the chance.
this. I’ve seen a lot of different “arguments” that try to exclude one part of the community from the others, that honestly being exclusionary is insanely hurtful to the community. So yes.
Trans people do belong in the community.
Bi people do belong in the community.
So do pans, aces and aros, nonbinary people, and a number of other people that i wouldn’t have even existed or understood had i not asked polite questions and did my research to unshelter myself, such as the MOGAI folks who are actually super nice and kinda cool. People who’ve tried to divide the community are going to fail if we stand together.
Reblogging on my psych sideblog (still Riot) but it’s just so easy to see how this infighting and exclusionist stuff was started by outside sources trying to tear us apart.
And this is why we insist on the word Queer; this is why we demand you see the word Queer and know that we are Queer. It’s the umbrella term they want you to hate, because it unites every single one of us.
Some have not only forgotten but are apparently A ok with going back to it.
this just in, terfs believe that lesbians are a threat to straight women apparently? i suppose thats the natural conclusion of terfism but i didnt expect it to go that fast
terfs also have roots in white supremacy since most of their “features to identify trans women” are features that are common on women of non white races. remember those terfs that accused the chinese olympic runners of not actually being women because they didnt have big boobs?
Bruh like the gold and silver medalists for women’s skateboarding are 13 year old girls when I was 13 I once put grapes in the microwave thinking they would turn to raisins.
They do this too they are just also really good at skateboarding.
