spaceskater-tony:

againstpollution:

angryradjigglypuff:

spaceskater-tony:

bemusedlybespectacled:

anti-anime-pro-equality:

Do you really think TERFs would do that? Just go on the internet and lie about trans women?

The person on the cover of NatGeo is a NINE YEAR OLD GIRL. That’s right, folks, TERFs are now apparently accusing ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL CHILDREN of being rapists. What a world.

I absolutely believe TERFs would do that, based on the copious amounts of research I’ve done for several papers I’ve written… Suggestion: don’t read anything by Sheila Jeffreys. You’ll get SO MAD.

This is in reference to Cherno Biko, not a nine year old.

https://maleviolence.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/overcoming-sexual-assault-e28094-medium.pdf

Here’s an article Cherno Biko wrote herself about the rape.

https://storify.com/auntiewanda/biko

Also here are several tweets from the victim.

But of course y’all will just continue to ignore this, right?

@spaceskater-tony @anti-anime-pro-equality @bemusedlybespectacled

you really think liberal feminists would do that? just ignore a trans woman raping a trans man because they don’t like the source?

TERFs will do anything they can in order to fuel their hatred for trans women, and they are using this case to promote their hateful rhetoric. They do not actually care about the trans male victim.

If a TERF can “prove” trans women are actually just violent men in dresses who want to violate women’s bodies with their evil penises, then TERFs will “prove” it. They must absolutely love this incident, since the trans man is “female bodied” and the trans woman is “male bodied”, so it works into their rhetoric of male-bodied people raping female-bodied people.

Moving on to the kinds of feminists who reject TERFs: it’s pretty common practice that we will not acknowledge any source written by a TERF. Just like one should reject anything and everything written by a NAZI. Their opinions and ideas do not matter and do not deserve to be heard in any way. So if a TERF is writing about a trans woman being a rapist, yes I am going to ignore that, 100%. I do not listen to TERFs. Period.

(the exception being when I’m writing papers to denounce the TERF position, in which case I quote them to show how fucking batshit hateful they are.)

Moving even FURTHER on…

This situation is tragic for the victim, @eTheHustla. Rape is serious, and technically when both parties are intoxicated (as it seems was the case) neither of them could consent to sex. It’s clear that @eTheHustla (the victim, whose name I do not know besides a twitter handle) was extremely traumatized by the experience and rightfully labelled it rape, due to the fact that he had only consented if a condom was used. A condom was present initially but at some point Biko removed her condom. She continued the interaction without wearing her condom, which is why it became rape.

Biko admits to her wrongs in the article. She calls what she did abuse, she admits she was an abuser in her article, and she labels herself an abuser in the title of the article itself.

@eTheHustla does not feel he received the support that Biko alleges was given - people often have different perceptions about how much they are or are not helping. I can’t really comment or take sides on that particular aspect. Biko thinks she helped, @eTheHustla feels she didn’t help enough.

NEXT:

Yes, this is a case of a trans woman raping a trans man. However, I refuse to let it be used by TERFs as fuel for their transphobic and transmisogynistic campaign against trans people. TERFs are using @eTheHustla, they don’t actually care about him - if anything, TERFs would love to get their hands on him and “detransition” him.

Don’t believe me? Read some Sheila Jeffreys. Jeffreys describes people who regret their transitions as “survivors” of “surgical harms” (58). She, and others like her, think that the medical industry has built itself up to profit off “transgendering men, women and children for their profits” (58). Yes, Jeffreys made up a verb: “transgendering”. She also calls trans people “transgenders”, and believes that they are all actually just severely mentally ill and their “transgenderism” is just another a symptom of their mental illness, and not the root cause of distress that could be alleviated/treated with transitioning (62).

Anyway, I could go on but I won’t since I’ve already written several papers on the subject so much so that I have the MLA citation for her nasty-ass book fucking memorized.

Long story short: TERFs do not care about trans male victims of rape by trans women, TERFs just want to use these victims to promote their vile, poisonous transmisogynistic rhetoric.

Works Cited:
Jeffreys, Sheila. Gender Hurts. Routledge, 2014.