Clarification for anyone who needs it: Transfeminism isn't just general positive affect towards trans women as a category of human being, nor is it anything that a trans woman happens to say she supports. - ThreadSky

mall.bsky.social • 100 days ago

Clarification for anyone who needs it:

Transfeminism isn't just general positive affect towards trans women as a category of human being, nor is it anything that a trans woman happens to say she supports.

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phlegmboy.bsky.social•99 days ago

It’s what annoys me about self-identified “TIRFS”. Simply saying “oh my politics include trans women” doesn’t make it so.

mall.bsky.social•99 days ago

Yeah that's for certain. Name 3 trans women who you fucking included lol

islastefania.bsky.social•91 days ago

Solid acid test. If you don't know the names of three trans women, odds are you know 10 that are terrified of your TERF bullshit. We roll shy forest animal style in this hellscape - if you're even aware of our existence we have already done the research and the risk planning to be out to you

awildsalem.com•100 days ago

not choice feminism for trans women lol.

ada-harding.itch.io•100 days ago

wut? transfeminism isn't choice feminism, it's like, *way* removed from that

awildsalem.com•100 days ago

yes, that’s my point.

awildsalem.com•100 days ago

my comment wasn’t clear. what Mallory described in the first post, which is not transfeminism, is a version of choice feminism. i didn’t mean that her description of transfeminism is choice feminism. exactly the opposite.

carotidartistry.bsky.social•100 days ago

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latisserande.bsky.social•100 days ago

Amazing thread, thank you!

mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

Like with feminism, it's a broad train of philosophical thought that nevertheless has a few particular constants without which it would be somewhat meaningless as a term. It is the product of intellectual WORK by transfeminists interrogating gender and trans oppression. It is not intuited innately.

mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

Transfeminism as a more or less continuous philosophical tradition in the west starts so far as most of us can figure out in the 60s with Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries setting up star house, using sex work to keep street kids housed.

mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

There are of course numerous prior instances of trans people theorising trans people's oppression, but the gay liberation struggle of the late 60s and the fight for LGBTQ freedom and feminist equality from then to now gives us a more or less continuous dialogue across generations of this struggle.

mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

In the early 1970s UK based proto transfeminist writing kind of kicked off with the GLF Transexual caucus' manifesto, entitled "Don't Call Me Mr, you fucking beast" which calls out against gender role enforcement and demands access to trans healthcare.

sqotn.bsky.social•99 days ago

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mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

In the early 1970s in the USA we have the first rumblings of TERFism as early trans women involved actively in the radical feminism movement are subjected to physical attacks and often defended by cisgender lesbian feminists.

mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

In the late 1970s through the 1980s we have trans women feminists contributing to lesbian feminist communities (see Daring To Be Bad, Rebel Dykes, all of Mary Daly and Janice Raymond's hateful screeds about it).

agape.bsky.social•100 days ago

Everything you say here is 100%, and I think there's room for an aside about WHY we don't have a line of continuous research that extends back to the trans theory developed in Weimar Germany. Because there is real danger of the lifetime of work going the same way if we, as a society, aren't careful.

mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

I mean there are Trans women who had things to say earlier than that in the 19th century. Weimar isn't the only time or place or reason and a lot of reductive stuff gets said there. While the destructive behaviour of the Nazis was very significant in scrapping a queer and trans intellectual
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mall.bsky.social•100 days ago

...community in the 1930s trans a much more significant issue is that without an internet and access to publishing, trans women and trans people generally have simply not had the resources to leave a lot beyond arrest records and coroners remarks about us.

droningg.bsky.social•99 days ago

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juliaereck.bsky.social•100 days ago

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