TERFs have ruined “radical feminist” the way KKKristianity has ruined following the teachings of Jesus

I’m a nonbinary anarchist who wants to destroy consensus reality for being bigoted, which I know technically makes Me a radical feminist, but I’ve only had negative experiences with people who claim that specific term in that way. I’ve had much better experiences with anarchist witches and genderqueer communists.

Honestly, as a transfeminine bunny?.. y-yeah.

I could see it before, I was surrounded by women and so on, but when I started being seen as a woman by society, it was so hard to ignore how ever present it was, in a way that, while still being perceived as male, I don’t think I would have ever been able to possibly understand, because hearing and even seeing is one thing, but living through it, it’s a whole other thing. And it’s also because, well, being surrounded by cisgender women, they themselves kind of get numbed to it because they grew up in this. They have been shaped by it. And so a lot of the things that they go through, they don’t even realize they are going through. Sometimes, it took a trans woman, me in this case, to make them realize that, “oh fuck, it’s not normal.”

This experience has opened me to a lot of stuff. And as I started doing some associative work, I’ve been able to meet people in anti-racist associations and groups, even work with some of them. And talking with racialized activists with this newfound experience of mine, while of course as a white person I couldn’t relate to everything they were saying, I started understanding that for marginalized groups: forms of oppressions are so constant and ever-present that they become kind of like integrated as just a fact of life, almost as if it was something as natural as the wind.

It was interesting to hear them tell me and admit that despite their own experience, they themselves were racist. They themselves had these biases. It may be basic to some, but racialized people are not exempt from racism. The same way that trans people are not exempt from transphobia, women are not exempt from misogyny. And, yeah, I’m racist, I’m misogynistic, I’m transphobic, I’m all of these things and I keep trying to work against it, to do better, but I know that this is not something I can just rid myself of, it’s not possible. Because no matter how much it can sometimes feel like society is pushing you away from itself, you’re still very much in it, your worldview struggling not to drown in the imposed status quo.

And because I had struggled to rebuild my entire identity, where at every turn I could feel the roots of misogyny and transphobia pulling me towards them, and shaping my identity despite myself. These things were really fucking radicalizing.

It didn’t make me understand that I should believe members of groups that are oppressed when they talk about their oppression. No, that I already knew and tried myself to heed despite my own internal biases. No, it made me understand that for all of the horrible things that they’re saying, there is always a part that they can’t say because it is just that deep within them, that they themselves have a hard time seeing it. Because for most marginalized groups, they never really get the chance to know what it’s like to not be part of that group. And so whenever somebody is telling me that their group is being fucked over by society, I understand that it’s even worse than what they’re saying because it’s only the part they can see.

While Minneapolis rages on, Vought is finalizing his plans for us. It’s not pretty. It hobbles the tax system such that marriage and children are the only real tax breaks for the lower class. Oh, and those tax breaks for kids don’t apply unless you’re married AND married to the father of said children being claimed. Dig in.