being “anti-TERF” instead of “anti-transmisogynist” just distances yrself from the transmisogyny that all non-trans-women have internalized / help to perpetuate
like it’s one thing to have a bunch of (often performative) anger towards some abstract group that you aren’t a part of, rather than like, actively examining and working to change yr own transmisogynist tendencies
Also, can I just add to this:
I really, really hate it when people who aren’t trans women say garbage like “I want TERFs to die”.
Because – on top of death threats being counterproductive – it’s frequently performative as hell, and it always ends up getting blamed on us and is used as evidence of us really being “violent males”. It’ll always blow back on us because they’re always looking for excuses to hate us. They’re good enough at making up reasons that we really don’t need our allies to hand legitimate-looking reasons to them.
Look, by all means, please continue making it unequivocally clear that you won’t accept TWERF rhetoric anywhere it comes up, and you’ll give no quarter to them. But do it in a way that doesn’t get us blamed for your threats of violence.
