vulva-o-queef:

Things I support:

• dysphoric people (trans or not)
• getting dysphoric people access to better healthcare
• getting transitioning people access to better healthcare
• getting trans people healthcare which presents treatment for dysphoria and transition as options and does not pressure anyone to do anything
• scientific research into the health risks and long-term effects of various aspects of transitioning (binding, hormone therapy, psychological patterns, etc.)
• safety and autonomy of trans people
• detransitioned people

Things I do not support:

• males in female spaces
• female spaces being compromised into free-for-all “gender neutral” spaces (while male spaces are left untouched)
• medically transitioning children
• lesbians & gay men have to be “open to” dating transwomen/transmen respectively or they’re transphobic
• lesbians & gay men should “re-examine” their “genital fetishes” (i.e. DIY conversion therapy)
• presenting medical transition as the only route for dysphoric people
• pressuring dysphoric and/or gender-nonconforming people to identify as trans
• erasing gender-nonconforming women like joan of arc from women’s history by claiming they were transmen
• erasing gay figures like marsha p. johnson from gay rights history by claiming they were trans
• rapists, murderers and predators who hold (or held) positions of influence in the trans movement (biko, rivers, alok, etc etc)
• “centering” males in female reproductive rights
• silencing female issues to cater to transwomen’s feelings
• silencing victims of male trans people in the interest of “not making transwomen look bad”
• violent and/or intimidating protests, no-platforming, other intimidation tactics, as an attempt to ban women’s writing, silence women’s dissenting voices, and erase women’s achievements
• people identifying as trans based on gender stereotypes, outdated notions of “brain sex,” or nebulous feelings rather than sex dysphoria
• transwomen being allowed to pretend they were not socialized male
• transwomen being allowed to pretend they do not, and have never held male privilege
• transmen’s experiences with female socialization and sex-based oppression being silenced and transmen being thrown under the bus in order to make the previous two points appear legitimate
• pushing false statistics, lies, and strawman arguments to demonize anyone who questions trans theory
• “TERF”
• subsequent TERF witch-hunts, block lists, demanding that no one so much as hear what radical feminists have to say and instead blindly accept a strawman version of what we believe
• ostracizing and bullying of anyone who expresses curiosity about radical feminist ideas, reveals that they’ve read radical feminist blogs, or so much as reblogs memes from radical feminists
• denial of basic biology
• denial of basic sociology
• denial of sex-based oppression