A message to the recent & future transgender pick-mes.

If you’re a trans pick-me (no matter where you align with gender) there’s a special place in Hell just for you & I don’t even believe in Hell. Having trauma isn’t excusing your actions of going out of your way to hurt other people actively. It explains that it comes from a place of hurt potentially or you’re just turning into a rage-bait influencer because it makes you money. Either way you come after trans people who don’t do being trans exactly like you so they “aren’t really trans.” You get a taste of the right-wing rage-bait money pot & you wanna keep going because money & maybe some weird part of you thinks this will save you from transphobic attacks? Honey, we’re all just fags to them no matter how we look or act. Even if you’re a cis person not following the norm or unaware of the politics of it all, you’re still just a faggot to them who they will eventually want to snuff out. I’m saying this as a tranny fag just to be clear! You can’t be playing these exclusion games & thinking it’s going to make you powerful! Even Milo Yionnapolis or whatever that fucker’s name was got dropped by the Trump Administration! They do not like us & they never will like us! Democrat, republican, whatever it is; if it’s capitalist, it doesn’t like us! No matter how much you lick those boots, it’ll do you no good. You’re a faggot/tranny just like me & the rest of us, that’s how these suits see it & always will see it no matter how much you try to prove “I’m one of the good ones.” They aren’t going to save you, we’re all on the chopping block to them no matter what our politics are. These government folks don’t see any of us as “one of the good ones.” Get over yourself, grow the fuck up, and stand side-by-side with your transsexual siblings! All we have is each other, these cis people aren’t shit! 💜 Down with cis! 💜

genuine question, what do you think is the root of transmisogyny? or rather, do you think fearmomgering about the inherent predatory nature of men ISN'T part of transmisogyny? or do you think this only targets trans women??? because men of color are also very much affected by this rhetoric

i dont even know where to start but is extremely obvious to me that you take your info on what terfs are from tumblr only and never looked into anything beyond what's passed around in tme circles. the core aspect of terfs' ideology it's literally there, in the acronym. it's a movement for trans exclusionary radical feminists. it's a movement centered around excluding trans women from feminism. terfs hate trans women because they want to be recognized as WOMEN, they want to be included in feminism, and terfs do not want that. that's it. that's what it means to be a terf.

terfs are absolutely obsessed with the idea that trans women want to invade their spaces, they will do anything in their power to avoid that, which is why they may happen to hurt other people: lots of terfs hated self identifying queer people because it was often a label used as a safe tactic by trans people to avoid outing themselves as trans to a possible hostile stranger, so some terfs started going by "lesbian not queer". it would still be wrong to say that queer people are the main target of terfs, as they are targeted literally only because of their hatred of trans women in the first place. some terfs may also target bi women because they think they are impure or traitors to political lesbians, but then again there's plenty of bi terfs. like there's plenty of cishet terfs. or transmasc terfs. because the only thing that unites all terfs is their shared hatred of trans women and their will to exclude them from feminism.

now, knowing how these people think and operate, you'd be safe to assume that a bigot is very seldom only bigoted in one way, which is why it is not at all surprising that terfs are most of the time racist, ableist, fatphobic, and whatnot. because they centered their whole movement and manifesto about excluding trans women they had to come up with ways to differentiate cis women from them, by giving obsolete, misogynistic and racists definitions, that are shared by whom? you guessed it, mostly fascists and white supremacist men who share their exact beliefs. terfs have always partnered with men, right-wing, fascist, white supremacist men. their husbands, their boyfriends, brothers, coworkers. they loved them because they shared their hatred for trans women (because cishet men also live in constant fear of being "deceived" by trans women, so of course they got along very well with terfs), and helped them kill them, and still do nowadays. terfs still love men when they help them in their transmisogynistic crusade, whether they're cis or trans, because we also can't ignore the hoardes of transmasc terfs. it is written literally nowhere that terfs have to target men, because technically they have no reason to. men dont want to get into womens sports teams or to be included in feminism, it's trans women who are asking for that kinda recognition, which terfs want to deny at all costs.

now since we've cleared up that terfs are violent bigots in general it is no surprise that they will harm other people. women of colour or jewish women first of all after trans women (trans woc / trans jewish women in particular) because they dont conform to their cissexist whitecentric standards, and they target them too with misdirected transmisogyny. men of colour too, because they will see them as predators. and trans men, because they see us as traitors who betrayed our sisters by joining the side of trans women, who brainwashed us with their trans ideology and whatnot. still, their transmisogyny is at the root. and that doesn't mean they aren't capable of harming us, it means we aren't their main target.

Edit. just clarifying that i'm a tme person so this is just me explaining what i know about terfs in the most objective way i can, based on their history and the testimony of multiple trans women. if any trans woman or transfem person wants to add on this feel absolutely free to do so, as it is never in my intention to act as an autority on something that i know doesn't affect me.