When TERFs Center Their Transphobia Above All Other Tenants Of Their Ideology, It Manages To Harm Everyone.

When TERFs center their transphobia above all other tenants of their ideology, it manages to harm everyone. The phrenology bullshit they use to try determine biological sex is inherently dangerous and awful and useless. While priding themselves on being the only true champions of women, they will launch relentless harassment campaigns on cis women with conditions like PCOS which give them features the TERFs associate with their caricatures of manhood. They’ll do the same thing to stone butch women when they can’t easily determine their AGAB, and then turn around and pat themselves on the back for their defense of lesbianism. They’ll do it to WOC and refuse to acknowledge the intersection of misogyny and racism and how they’re perpetuating it. They’ll make pointedly transphobic and cissexist art about art about how a woman’s strength comes from their ovaries and uteruses and vulvas and how those organs are a connecting force between all of womanhood and refuse to acknowledge how many women are born without them, how many women have lost them in a struggle against an illness.

And then they’ll fall back to their radical feminism routes and read books about a radical overhaul of society and the universal experiences of womanhood written by white ladies in the 70s who grew up in suburbia and benefited highly for their identifies. And they won’t stop for a second to think how hollow their ideas of female supremacy are, they hold tight these thoughts that all women live the same lives as them so women who have differing experiences, opinions or appearances are not women. And because they are not women, they are enemies.

Imagine brushing off the deaths of people as nothing. Honestly terf memes are just alt-right memes. This is something a basement dwelling chud would make.

Any chance you could link to stuff about radfems/terfs being a cult bc I’m super interested but couldn’t figure out the right search terms to find it on your blog. Tia!!

Search terms I use: "radfems dangerous," "radfems cult." Here are my sources. Not all discuss only cults, but all mention similarities to cult movements and are valuable (especially for terfs who will not read them). As an intersectional feminist, my most important takeaway is that terfs don't understand intersectionality, no matter how much they claim to, and they're fracturing and destroying feminism.

The ‘gender critical’ feminist movement is a cult that grooms, controls and abuses, according to a lesbian who managed to escape

Whose feminism is it anyway? The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate (note racism, classism, and developing tiers of the "worthy" versus "less worthy")

Trauma as Terror; The Cult of ‘Radical’ Feminism

The Secret Internet of TERFs (notably "us versus them" language and delusions of persecution)

TERF wars: An introduction (note: development of their own "in-group" language and similar logic to more dangerous and cult-like sects of Christianity)

TERF wars: Adopting- then abandoning - a "cult-like" movement

Gender Critical Movement On Belief: A Podcast About Cults

The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained (note the predetermined, often parroted arguments meant to force someone to come to a certain conclusion)

How to Leave the Gender Critical Movement (this explains that the movement is basically as difficult to leave as a cult and for the same reasons)

Remembering Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘ethics of ambiguity’ to challenge contemporary divides: feminism beyond both sex and gender (note: subscribing to an unrealistic utopian vision that only some can benefit from)

The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’ (note the desire to homogenize womanhood and limit differences between "members")

The ontological woman: A history of deauthentication, dehumanization, and violence (note: creating rhetoric that adheres to a cycle of moral fulfillment)

Three Waves of Feminism - Sage Publications (this has less to do with cults but I'm adding it for anyone who thinks radfems aren't terfs - this shows the full history and why they are now synonymous)

Pro-terf articles are opinion pieces or published by the worst conservative media. It's almost like their logic doesn't hold up in a peer-reviewed journal, huh....they have to rely on fake news.

The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

The rot of racism.