Ok, look, I'm not currently in the mindset to educate someone who doesn't seem to know anything about trans issues or TERFs.
I just wanted to point out that TERF isn't a meaningless term and they actually spread very harmful views that need to be called out - and what they are called out for isn't "pretty much anything".
Not in the way TERFs say it, no
Well basically they believe:
- Women are born women and you can't change that
- Gender roles are harmful to women and must be abolished
The fact that these two positions are often contradictory is apparently lost on them.
Eh, it's not something you can teach - I'm cis myself so it's only from trans women I know online pointing out that certain posts are from TERFs that I've acquired a slight sense of when a post is from a TERF.
Some huge red flags though is if the post is by a woman and refers to women as "females" (if it's from a man they are probably an MRA) and talk about how dangerous "predatory males" is often code for trans woman, but yeah just listening to trans women about what type of content is harmful to them is the only real way to learn this.
OK well I'm not getting in to debates about gatekeeping the LGBTQIA+ community, had enough on Tumblr - bottom line gatekeeping is bad
It may have looked like "pretty much anything" to you, but as CluckyB says, there are some stuff that isn't obviously TERF rhetoric at first and it gets called out because some of us have learnt to recognise it for what it is.
We include intersex as part of the LGBTQIA+ community to show that if an intersex person feels that they require the support of the community then it is there for them, and as Twining_Ivy said there are also plenty who do accept this inclusion.
I find it suspicious that people always like to use the "intersex people don't want to be LGBT" argument - why are you trying to find reasons to exclude people?



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