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my dear friend just joined tumblr and i was scrolling through terf tags so that they can, yknow, have a decent time on the internet, but now ive seen dozens of terf posts and i’m annoyed.

my least favorite thing is “why do the feelings of [trans women] always come before the safety of [cis] women?” like come on bro. be imaginative.

first of all, i’ve outlined many times before that most of the terf movement comes from radical feminist ideas of what men are- dangerous, always predatory and oppressive, and sexually sick. now, most men try to stay their distance, but trans women are feminine “men” who are actively trying to reside in “women’s spaces”. so they’re seen not as a passive threat you can fear but ultimately avoid, but as an active one going out of their way to harm you. they’ll obsessively point to one or two examples of this rather than the statistics on violence against trans women

its also a movement based on comfort rather than material danger, which they ironically think is reversed.

i’ve talked before on here about how discomfort is not harm- if you are in a public space and a transgender person is minding their own business, doing the same thing a cisgender woman would do, and YOU feel unsafe- that is not this person harming you, this is you being uncomfortable sharing a public space with someone. that is not on them, especially if theyre just minding their business. your problem with someone else who is doing nothing to you is just that, your problem

someone changing into a swim suit does not affect you. if you cant coexist in public, it is your job to remove yourself from a situation where you feel uncomfortable, not to demand everyone else leaves that public space for you.

there’s also the fact that even when trans women are victims, their safety is always devalued in comparison to cis women’s feeling.

take this for example

this seems insane because if you look at the reddit screenshots, it’s a trans woman saying she was abused and assaulted and was welcomed at the shelter she stayed at for her own safety. she had a positive experience with other women who valued her presence and she found she was able to be helpful in a community of other abused women. its nauseating to read the first paragraph and there is no compassion in this person’s post

she was abused! she was beaten! and she was welcomed and loved at a SHELTER! and yet op’s post with a couple hundred notes mocked her for taking a spot [from real victims] and it’s just… insane. there’s no compassion for an abused woman so long as she’s trans, because then her victimhood pales in comparison to the same situation but it’s happening to a cis woman.

i can’t have put it better than i did here

it all comes back to the idea of “the real victim” and “the clout chaser”. one is vulnerable and infantilized but ultimately cared for, defended even if they don’t need it, while the other does not need help or defense. they’re just getting off to the idea of being a victim and are, in fact, a threat.

trans female victims are always seen as secondary victims. either it didnt happen or it matters less than a cis woman who doesnt want to share a space with her. its not about cis womens safety, it’s about their feelings over trans women’s safety.

“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else

// major warning for murder, discrimination, and murder amongst transgender youth

im trying to find the part where the three girls, all older than them, are charged for murder? or are those girls not going to have to deal with any sort of represcussions???

is this going to be another case of "let's keep these people's identities private!!" or what. are we ignoring the fact that those girls bashed nex's head against the bathroom floor meanwhile nobody helped before, during, or after the situation??? because the media did the same thing with brianna ghey, they refused to release information on her killers until what, a year later? why are we working so hard to protect persecutors but not the ones being persecuted?

there are so many things wrong with this situation, let's start with the fact that an ambulance wasn't called upon nex being found? those three girls had quite literally banged their head against the bathroom floor NUMEROUS times, where was your sense of urgency upon finding a SOPHOMORE, A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WHO IS NO OLDER THAN 16, beaten on the bathroom floor??

we are talking about a 16 year old, somebody with a whole life ahead of them. nex had so much to live for and now their blood is on your hands and i hope that you feel guilty. i don't even think enraged is the word i am looking for in this situation, it's a feeling far beyond rage.

as a society we truly need to do better because jfc. i have to live my life in fear everyday, so do my friends, the people i love, and thousands of others - we aren't scary, we are scared.

rest well, nex, they will never forget your name ❤️

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