How do they get away with this overt racism?
Over and over again, they place black women and males with dysphoria in the same category. It’s a thing. Look out for it.
“ALL women” already includes black women. It doesn’t include men. Stop saying black women are the same as men, you horrible, privileged idiots.
When I say I stand up for ALL women, I mean ALL women. Women of colour, trans women, women with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ women.
Every. Single. One.
happy women’s day to black women, trans women, queer women, women in the LGBTQI community, women who don’t fit societies so called “beauty standards”, women who are survivors of abuse, women who feel like they aren’t enough, women who don’t get the same recognition as men do
Trans women. Black women. All of the women who have fought, and continue to fight, for the rights they deserve. This women's history month, we celebrate you.
I'll be honest, I'm really beginning to fucking hate them. Well, I was accused of hatred when I was a more reasoned terf, so TAs shouldn't be shocked. Incidentally, I have a personal anecdote when I actively defended a boy who may or may not have identified as "trans". He was in a long dress with long flowing hair and jumping around on a huge bouncy castle where I was with my baby daughter in 2005. A group of boys aged around 14 or 15 were taking the piss, but he ignored them, and I watched with some unease. The other adults ignored it all. Then he lost his footing and went over and the boys surrounded him like a pack - he looked up with fright in his eyes - I was shocked and it was the trigger I needed. I roared at the ringleader (the largest) "OI FAT BOY! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" And after a bit of half-arsed verbal defence of themselves and blaming the boy, they backed off. I'd do it again too. That's the terf motivation, we're protecting the underdogs. When we were trans allies we thought it was trans folk. Before rapidly learning how things have changed in the last decade or so, and then My God, when you see it, you REALLY see it.
There are a lot of accusations that feminism in the western world is focused mainly on white, middle-class women, which may or may not be a fair comment. But I know I personally don't exclude any biological women when I think about feminist concerns, and I suspect most feminists feel the same.
I agree though that it's racist and ignorant to assume women of colour or poor women are given the same status in radical feminism as biological, trans-identified males. We know this is just a tactic to have males included in the category of women. Wherever there's a group for women, you can fully expect TIMs and handmaidens alike to barge in and demand that TW be included. Rarely do I see them asking whether women of colour are welcome. Because of course they are. And they know this. They're just being obtuse and using minority women to crowbar trans activism in.