Date: Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dragonlady7
I too am shocked at how upset TERFs make me-- I mean, of course, on the surface of it, it's just fucking awful, I like to think I'd be equally upset by anything that so blatantly attacked the absolutely most vulnerable population-- but it, like, viscerally and personally upsets me and gives me fight-or-flight responses as if it were a direct threat to myself!
Which, I mean, arguably it is-- we are none of us free until we are all of us free, of course, and anything that threatens any of us chips away at the safety of all of us!! But I always feel so personally attacked, even though I'm also uncomfortably aware that I'm terribly underinformed about trans issues and such, and I like, well, actually I know a lot of trans people, I've discovered, but like, I'm not super close with any, so it's not like... well my point is it shouldn't be so personal, but it is. It is, somehow. And it freaks me out that other people don't think so, or think it's something they can opt out of caring about, or whatever!

Anyway this was a fantastic and well-stated rant, thanks.
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