TW: T*rf slur
TERF
Normalization of violence against women. English translation.
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TERF is the acronym for “Trans exclusionary radical feminist”, in Spanish “Feminista Radical Transexcluyente”, promoting the idea that radical feminism is transphobic. It's being used as an insult, clearly misogynistic, and this concept is perpetuated mostly by people who are part of the queer movement and transactivism, but this is a totally wrong conception.
Within radical feminism we analyze gender as a social construction and as a mechanism to oppress women. We do not see it as an identity but as a tool of oppression based on our sex. This is why we are gender abolitionists, as this is the only solution to free ourselves from gender oppression and all that this entails. Queer theory aims to eliminate the category of sex and if this happens, then our oppression is invisible and denied, just as feminism would disappear.
This implies how important it is to consider biological sex, and to understand then that it is that we do not want trans-women in our movement: because they do not suffer oppression because they are women, because oppression is based on our material reality. A male person will grow up with male socialization and unborn privileges of the oppressive sex. No matter how much you transition, sex is a material and immutable reality.
To carry out this analysis, it is necessary to be clear about the definitions of sex and gender, and the difference between oppression and discrimination, since it is these confusions that cause misinformation.
It is also necessary to take into account that radical feminism already has an agenda and a defined political subject, which is the woman (adult human female, person of the female sex). We support separatist spaces to protect and prioritize ourselves. Claiming ourselves, talking about ourselves, about our bodies and experiences, defending what is ours and the few spaces that we have managed to conquer. It is not transphobia or hatred, it is to focus on women and fight for our liberation.
To sum it up, it is simple to understand the fact why we are trans-feminine separatists in the movement understanding that we are based on sex. It is contradictory to call us "transexclusive" when transmasculines are also part of the movement because they are biologically women and therefore belong to the political subject (it should be noted that this does not represent an obligation for transmasculines, that is, they are not obliged to be part of the movement if they don't want to), plus you can't exclude someone who was never part of it. The most important thing to understand all this is to have clear ideas and know how to separate things.
The fact that they want to silence women is nothing new, they have always treated us like the bad guys in history. TERF is an insult, and it is misogynistic because it seeks to silence us, invalidate us, violate us, misinform us, reduce feminism only to the criticism of gender and queer theory, since other issues are also being fought for. They look for a thousand ways and excuses in order to discredit us, they want to emotionally blackmail us by making us feel guilty for prioritizing us, they want to impose fear on us by insulting and verbally hurting us until they threaten, they twist words and invent things to make us look like the violent ones, and promote hate speech towards us.
Feminism is a movement by and for women, it must be a separatist space and where struggles are not mixed because that way the objective is lost. We must be very clear about what we are looking for and what we are fighting for, we cannot allow just anyone to come and tell us how we have to act in feminism and what we have to do... patriarchy conditions us our entire lives, let's not allow that too to break into our spaces.
TW: Violence, d**th threats, r*p* threats
JK Rowling: “'Feminazi’, ‘TERF’, ‘bitch’, ‘witch’. Times change. Woman-hate is eternal.”
“TERF. Become trans. Radfem is a trick. D1e. Im gonna r*pe you.”
“Happy pride day. Hope you kick every TERF you see”.
“sh00t radfems”
“I haven’t wished anyone d**th, but I hope every terf d1es”
