TERFs on Twitter

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I was somewhat in the middle of a TERF war on Twitter this morning. I've mainly just been making wise cracks and turning hateful remarks on their heads while they get more enraged and self-righteous.

One person said "If a trans person's body was dug up 200 years from now they would be identified by their birth gender." I responded with, "I would rather be misgendered by my bones 200 years from now than identified today by ignorance and bigotry. Whatever floats your boat, tho."

It's amazing, the amount of outright stupidity these people have. I think many of them really do believe that trans identity is real and valid, they just don't care. The clearly misdirected man-hate has taken them as hosts.

Here's the sarcasm I was posting:

— *yawn* Yeah, it's all true. I'm really a super manly man man who swings lumber and grunts. I just identify as female for the sex and drama.

— Only a real man takes estrogen and anti-androgens. These breasts contain an incredible new IPA microbrew.

— Only real men have vaginas, because it's so manly to be a woman. God, I need to drive a truck into a fireworks factory soo bad... Topless.

— God, I have this insane compulsion to burst into a women's rights meeting and just take up as much space as possible. Lots of burping, too.

TERFs should know that all of their bigoted slander and self-perpetuated ignorance empowers me. I feel so much more womanly today. Thank you! xoxo

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Jun 30, 2015 0:13:32 GMT 8 @illuminess said:

I was somewhat in the middle of a TERF war on Twitter this morning. . .

One person said "If a trans person's body was dug up 200 years from now they would be identified by their birth gender."

Dear Ms. Terf,

Sometimes I think that trans-haters are having some kind of competition to see who can come up with the stupidest objection to transgenderism. With this one you may not win the grand prize, but at the very least you’ll rate an honorable mention.

Ms. Terf, when, two hundred years from now, somebody (and who exactly would that be? and do they have nothing better to do?) is digging up your body to examine your bones, yes, they’ll determine that you were in fact physically female. But what exactly will that tell them about your soul? Will your bones tell them that you had a warm, kind, generous, understanding soul, or one that was full of poison, driven by spite and hatred and stupidity, one that poured out its unhappiness upon every other soul it met?

You see, Ms. Terf, we transpeople know the difference between the soul and the body, whereas you, poor benighted fool, can look at a human being and see nothing but their rotting bones a couple of centuries hence, rather than the soul those living bones now house. What exactly does that say about your soul?

Now it can be debated whether the soul is eternal or not, but even if it is not, it is nonetheless certain that the deeds done by the living soul will live on long after that soul itself is dead. Have you never heard that the sins of the mother can be visited upon the daughter and the granddaughter and the great-granddaughter? Whatever poison you carry in your own soul can be poured out upon your daughter for her to pour out on her daughter, and so on from generation to generation. I’ve seen photos of some of my ancestors, and they send a shiver up my spine. “No wonder I’m so messed up if I came from the likes of them!”

And so, Ms. Terf, when, centuries from now, our hypothetical grave robbers are examining the bones of one of your descendants, will they be able to tell how much happiness or unhappiness she enjoyed and how much of either of those can be attributed to you? And when these grave robbers are examining my bones, will they be able to tell whether this soul of mine was male or female, brave or cowardly, generous or spiteful, wise or foolish? And will it tell them how much happiness or unhappiness I found for myself or bestowed on my son or on anyone else I knew?

Ms. Terf, we are living souls, and you can see nothing but rotting bones. You think a man or a woman is nothing but his or her skeletal structure. Do please try to be a bit less idiotic, for your own sake and the sake of those around you. Thank you.

Your friend,
Foxglove

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Jun 30, 2015 0:13:32 GMT 8 @illuminess said:

I was somewhat in the middle of a TERF war on Twitter this morning. I've mainly just been making wise cracks and turning hateful remarks on their heads while they get more enraged and self-righteous.

One person said "If a trans person's body was dug up 200 years from now they would be identified by their birth gender." I responded with, "I would rather be misgendered by my bones 200 years from now than identified today by ignorance and bigotry. Whatever floats your boat, tho."

It's amazing, the amount of outright stupidity these people have. I think many of them really do believe that trans identity is real and valid, they just don't care. The clearly misdirected man-hate has taken them as hosts.

Here's the sarcasm I was posting:

— *yawn* Yeah, it's all true. I'm really a super manly man man who swings lumber and grunts. I just identify as female for the sex and drama.

— Only a real man takes estrogen and anti-androgens. These breasts contain an incredible new IPA microbrew.

— Only real men have vaginas, because it's so manly to be a woman. God, I need to drive a truck into a fireworks factory soo bad... Topless.

— God, I have this insane compulsion to burst into a women's rights meeting and just take up as much space as possible. Lots of burping, too.

TERFs should know that all of their bigoted slander and self-perpetuated ignorance empowers me. I feel so much more womanly today. Thank you! xoxo

Amen. 200 years from now my bones won't be nothing more than part of this planet. I am who I am now regardless of bone structures. Plus when this particular person's bones are dug up 200 years from now, the archeologists won't know that they are a dumbass today.

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Sept 27, 2015 3:50:51 GMT 8 @jamie said:

Plus when this particular person's bones are dug up 200 years from now, the archeologists won't know that they are a dumbass today.

I'd say they probably will--from the sloping forehead.