she aint long for this world folks.
Lets see if her CIA friends save her now:
https://twitter.com/UnburntWitch/status/929425526686543873
I have been called a TERF because I am a trans medicalist and do not accept the 70 genders thing that the queer folk tell me to.
Actual TERFs are few and far between and not worth getting into a fit about because no one takes them seriously.
Can you explain what you mean by trans medicalist? I’ve never heard that term before so I’d like to know more about it if you’d be willing to explain.
I am what certain trans people call truscum.
You've got two camps: trans medicalists - people who define being trans as a medical condition that requires treatment for gender dysphoria - and the umbrella people - people who define being trans as an umbrella and gender as a mere construct. The problem is that the umbrella people have let trans issues be taken over by a bunch of queers who want to disrupt gender norms and say there are 70+ genders - again, because is just a construct to them. They are non-binary. Then you've got people like me, your good ol' classic transsexual, who is binary. I basically posit that in order to be trans you must have gender dysphoria - hence medicalist. NB's don't like that and want to include every one under the sun under our tent. We are two separate groups who have completely separate needs. The NB's are the Tumblrites you see saying they're autigender and all other kinds of shit. They call us "truscum" because we argue that some are not true trans people.
More on this issue can be found here, something a friend wrote:
re: “why bother being exclusionary?”
Here is why I think we need to separate transsexualism, the medical condition, from “transgender” identity politics. I think there is a cultural phenomenon happening where people people want to describe all of the minutiae of their experience of gender and sexuality with a new label or set of labels. And none of these labels have any set meaning, anyone can claim them for any reason and no one is allowed to question how they choose to "identify." And honestly? That's totally fine. Dismantle gender conventions, rock n roll, etc.
Transsexualism, on the other hand, absolutely does have a specific definition, defined symptoms, and even neural and genetic biomarkers associated with it.
The big conflict is that these groups of people have drastically different needs. Transsexuals need lifesaving treatment, which we are routinely denied by insurers. We also need legal protections from discrimination (it is still legal in most US states to use a woman's trans status to get off the hook for murdering her). Beyond that, the goal for most of us is just to live a normal life as the sex we know ourselves to be.
Meanwhile, the diverse concerns of the gender identity community include advocating for increased visibility, increased representation of diverse modes of gender expression, normalizing of neopronouns, etc. Their experience of "transness" is not as a debilitating medical condition, but rather as a sociocultural / political ideology.
They are essentially gender anarchists / radicals, whereas we transsexuals are gender conformists.
I think we need to divorce these two movements. Our needs are fundamentally different in a way that can't be served well united under a single banner, "transgender." Transsexuals desperately need increased access to lifesaving care and legal protection. We are frustrated by the feeling that the gender identity community is jacking the mic by identifying as trans to gain credibility and visibility but then using that platform to push for their queer political platform. Meanwhile, they also feel that their self-identifications are threatened by transsexuals who point out that our experience of transness is fundamentally different. We're made into pariahs for this unacceptable act of 'gatekeeping.' They’ve effectively force-teamed themselves with us only to be able to kick us off the team if we don’t accept their queer politics agenda.
Honestly imo, they can have ‘transgender.’ I’m super sick of having this debate. But by demedicalizing transness, they are putting our access to hormones and surgeries at risk. If someone can just decide to be trans, if there’s no diagnosable medical basis for it, then why /should/ insurers be required to cover it?
TLDR: Umbrella queers are the type to say something like how they like a masculine thing, therefore, they must be trans! Because girls can't like the same things as boys. They have no dysphoria. Most don't even transition. They are culture appropriation and nothing more.
TLDR 2: My views make me a social pariah among the trans community.
