#this blog is anti terf

[the-lady-writes-what]

Warning: Long essay below the cut

Real talk about Harry Potter for a second. As a millennial who was into HP when I was younger, I have to honest and say that I did not see the problematic shit the J.K. Rowling put in her books. For a lot of us, growing up as a white kid in the early 2000's, we were not educated enough to see the anti-Semitism, racism, and lukewarm feminism that wasn't really feminism because Rowling made fun of Hermione for it. Watching the spiral of Rowling into TERF territory and aligning herself with people who reference Hitler in their TERF speeches and literal fascism breaks my heart. HP played a huge part in my childhood, as it did for many people. Sadly there are HP adults who continue to enable Rowling to use her platform for evil. Instead of looking back and dissecting the literature that formed our current mindset, there are people who grew up to be nasty people indirectly because HP taught them that anyone who complains about the system is doing progressive social justice wrong. Harry Potter became a wizard cop for the system that helped put Voldemort in a position of power. Hitler didn't rise to power out of the blue. He worked the current system in his favor and won support. He wasn't just some manipulative well spoken mastermind, he was using rhetoric that already existed. The criticism about the politics in the HP universe came far too late. We currently have numerous adults who are now currently voting to repress Black and queer history from schools, LGBTQ+ education, and criminalize being trans and gay in several states in the USA.

Not every adult who read HP became a fascist, not every adult who is fascist read HP. I'm certainly not saying that HP is solely the reason why anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes are currently on the rise again and legislations are trying to get passed. What I am saying is that this is what happens when you don't think critically what you read. Critical analysis about what books are produced and by whom can help deter or enable the kind of ideas that Rowling associates with. Her brand of "progressiveness" is seen through the lens of an upper middle class and upper class white British woman. She largely benefits from a system that will come to be the shoulder for her to cry on when the internet "bullies" her, i.e when the internet and former fans try to hold her accountable for the inflammatory things she's said and written about trans people, women, Jews, POC, etc. I am not a saint in all of this either. My first book that I wrote which will never see the light of day again contained an Indian servant because I thought about historical "accuracy" which looking on it now was a load of shit. What I should have done in the first place was do critical research and properly acknowledge the racism and discrimination and imperialism of the British Empire. That character should not have existed and I deeply regret writing a story like that, even if my intention was not to further enable a white-washed history of the relationship between the British aristocracy and the people of India. Whether it was my intention or not, the fact that I wrote it was not okay. I am sorry for that. That book is no longer available and the remaining physical copies will stay with me. They aren't going anywhere. Moving forward, I will do better research and listen to the voices of people of color when it comes to writing characters outside of my own race.

Rowling has yet to learn that lesson towards trans people and keeps using the debunked conspiracy theory that "men dressed as women" will sexually assault someone in the ladies' room and take up female-dominated spaces. Transwomen are women. End of story. It seems that the more she is criticized for upholding anti-trans beliefs and conspiracy theories, the deeper she digs her heels in. She doesn't want to be corrected or told she's misinformed. The die hard fans of hers follow suit. Adult fans of HP have gone to assault and abuse transwomen, forgetting the soft-spoken message of the books they claim to love so much, that you should not hate people for who they are. I say soft-spoken because HP's message of anti-bigotry can hardly be called as such. It is spoken through the lens of upper class wealthy white woman's perspective of social justice and feminism. I say soft-spoken, and even limp-wristed, because its anti-bigotry message falls flat when discussing the numerous problematic and racist undertones in her writing. She wrote house elves as sentient creatures who want to be enslaved and made fun of Hermione for fighting for their freedom. She wrote the main characters to be all straight, white, and cis who later become part of the very system they fought against as children. The magical races in the Wizarding World universe are frequently looked down upon as if they're lesser than the human wizards and nothing is done for them. She did little to no research on non-European naming conventions and named the one East Asian character Cho Chang, combining a Korean and Chinese name as if the cultures are synonymous, named a black character Kingsley Shacklebolt, and allowed the Fantastic Beast franchise make Nagini (a South Asian name with cultural and religious significance) an Indonesian woman played by a South Korean actress. As if insult wasn't enough, Nagini is portrayed as a submissive Asian woman (stay classy Rowling!) who later dies at the hands of a white character to move the plot forward.

I wrote this fucking essay because Rowling is hurting so many people. Her kind of rhetoric which is a pandemic of hate towards trans people is hurting those I know. Two of my dearest friends are transwomen and I would fight tooth and nail for them. Hearing the author who wrote the books that got me interested in reading say things that accuse my friends of being men and wanting to assault women hurts them more than me and it infuriates me. She is one of the many reasons why diversity in reading is important so her mistakes don't get repeated and regurgitated. When you're a dumb white kid in the 2000's, you don't see the problematic stuff because you're not personally affected by it. Nobody can be racist against a white kid. And when authors like Rowling get praised in spite of the insensitive stereotypes and problematic shit in their books, it really is no wonder that we have a resurgence of hate crimes and rhetoric against LGBTQ+ folk and POC. The books didn't materialize out of thin air. There were so many editors who have had to go through the books and said, "Yep. That's fine" when she was writing offensive names for POC characters, anti-Semitic goblins, and having the white main characters join the system that put wizard Hitler into power.

It hurts to let something like HP go and die a slow painful death. It was a huge part of my childhood and got me into reading books. I might not be the reader I am today without those books. Because I will never be affected by the system in which people of color, trans folk, and the Jewish community are oppressed and I admit to being very privileged, I did not recognize the numerous red flags in J.K. Rowling's body of work until it was too late. For that I am sorry. The damage is done, but I'm trying to do better by listening and protecting my friends, trans or otherwise. J. K. Rowling can go fuck herself.

#i'm here once again writing an essay nobody asked for #lady writes what runs her mouth again #this blog is anti TERF #transwomen are women #end of story #harry potter discourse #HP #why i left the HP fandom for good #writing discourse #authorship discourse #another fucking essay

[anti-terf-posts]

Just got an ask from a terf that said "fyi" and then had a diagram of the differences between the male and female pelvis, as if I would give a shit. I genuinely don't care like it does no damage to my psyche it does not bother me at all. Terfs are so pathetic.

#Obviously I deleted it bc I'm not giving them a platform or putting negativity on my blog #Terfs be silenced #anti terf #anti gender critical #anti radfem #transphobia tw

[thefirsthogokage]

Someone just tagged me and was like "what's the TIRF to TERF pipeline?! I want to avoid going down the transphobe path!" ... but then they apparently blocked me.

After all the work I put into that post, I couldn't save the post, because, like I said, they apparently blocked me. So, here's how they do it covertly, including how they start with convincing people that sex work is inherently bad, and not infact work...which is what this person said in another post. So, I guess they don't get to learn about that.

Anywho, it's all covert.

TERFs actually love going into places (without marking themselves as TERFs or even radfems/gender critical), then saying things that slowly edge people into hating trans individuals. Maybe it starts with purity culture and talking down sex work. Maybe it starts with being anti-kink amor anti-ship. Maybe it starts with being anti all men, (saying that only men uphold the patriarchy is definitely one of their big things).

Bottom line: they start getting you to hate people, particularly people who do things of their own consent, or get you to start not liking groups of marginalized people. They start saying "this is wrong," putting some sort of moral emphasis on something consensual being inherently wrong or bad. Or maybe they start complaining about a group of people. Whatever way the do it, it's not always obvious what their true beliefs are

They start chipping away at what groups they think should not have the right to do whatever they want, or present in whatever way they want, because it doesn't fit their view of what's right.

(let me be very clear here: I am in NO WAY talking about p*dos. Fuck them.)

They do this more and more and more, and eventually, down that line, they end up whittling who should have the power down to only cishet white Christians.

Yes, this is the pipeline. It's been proved. There are charts.

They get minority groups to turn on each other, and that let's those hard right Christian White guys to get what they want: no one but them, and white women they can force to have their children. This includes lesbians turning on the trans community. People turning on asexuals, telling them they aren't real. People being bi- and panphobic. Etc.

It's a pipeline. It's talked about. The research is out there, but I am unable to pull up anything at the moment.

Just wanted to get that out.

#fuck terfs #fuck radfems #this blog is trans positive #anti terf #anti radfem

[princessefemmelesbian]

A PSA

Okay I normally don't make posts about TERFs like these because I prefer to reblog them from trans people who know more about this stuff then I do but I just gotta say this, and if I'm being for fucking real I can't believe this even has to be said:

Stop posting screenshots of TERF posts and saying "op was a terf so I'm stealing this post! 🤪"

Seriously, stop it. You're not doing anything good by taking TERF talking points and reposting them to your blog. All you're doing is allowing TERF rhetoric to continue to spread and sanitizing it so that people become desensitized to it and don't recognize actual TERF rhetoric when they see it.

When you screenshot a TERF post and say "op was a TERF" all you are doing is validating TERF points whether you agree with them or not. Because every post a TERF makes, even if it seems benign, is connected to their rotten, transmisogynist ideology. You cannot divorce TERF statements from their true intentions. I think a lot of TMEs on this site really underestimate the fact that TERF is a harmful hate movement. Every statement a TERF makes, even if it seems harmless or actually feminist, is ultimately going to be tarnished by the fact that they are made with the intention of targeting trans women and wanting them dead. If a post is about how men are awful or are "raised" to be a certain way and is made by a TERF, then congratulations, you just found transmisogynistic rhetoric that is actually about trans women and their apparent "male socialization". If a post is about how lesbians should be allowed to not like men and how men are forcing themselves onto lesbians, but a TERF made it, then it's not actually a lesbian-friendly post. It is a transphobic post about how transfem lesbians apparently "prey" on cis lesbians(which they also think straight trans men are, let's make that very clear) by merely existing. Same for any post about the word queer or the beauty industry or periods or anything of the like. Even if they don't explicitly say it, TERFs are inherently lumping trans women in with(cishet) men and trans men in with women/lesbians and THAT is the true meaning of the post. You're not making it any better by reposting it from them.

TERFs know exactly how to make their posts seemingly benign and genuinely positive on the surface so that people get sucked in to thinking that they are truly for the feminist cause and actually have good points to make. But all of it ultimately serves the purpose of continuing transmisogyny, and when you post screenshots of their posts and go "I really wanted to reblog this post but op was a terf so I'm stealing it! 😇" all you are doing is giving terfs a platform and saying that we should listen to them. You're exposing trans women to beliefs and opinions of people who ultimately wish to harm them and do NOT have the same innocent intentions that you believe they have from looking at the post at first glance. You are not helping women. You are not helping feminism. You're internalizing TERF rhetoric, and you're allowing other people to internalize it, too.

It's one thing if you don't realize a post was made by a TERF before you reblog it, and then you delete it afterwards. But if you know someone is a TERF and intentionally repost their vile, sickening rhetoric wrapped up in pink feminist bows and go "I like the message of this post but op is a terf so 🤷🏾‍♀️" then you may as well be reblogging it directly from them, because you're still agreeing with TERFs at the end of the day.

What can you do instead? You can reblog feminist posts from amazing and intellectual trans women who actually are genuine about the cause and actually know what they're saying. They have way better views on feminism and misogyny and lesbophobia and the patriarchy then a radfem who thinks woman=vagina and man=penis ever will, trust me. Uplift their voices instead of stealing from conservative hate groups. It really is that simple.

#terfs dni #radfems dni #tw terf #anti-terf #trans #trans women #transmisogyny #lesbian #lesbophobia #transphobia #misogyny #patriarchy #feminism #op #as someone said on another reblog: 'there's a reason you found this on a terf blog. it is a terf post.'

[mintyscuriocabinet]

Rb if misandrists are NOT welcome on your blog 💙

#my little pony #mlp #mylittlepony #my little pony g1 #g1 my little pony #g1 mlp #mlp g1 #big brother ponies #misandry #sexism #gender equality #terfs dni #radfem dni #sfw agere #age regression sfw #age regression #age regressor #agere #sfw age regression #agere blog #agere community #mens mental health #mental health #gay #mlm #mlm thoughts #mlm things #lgbtq #lgbtqia #anti misandry

[immabitqueer]

In light of the Taylor Swift ai shit I just wanted to say very clearly:

THIS IS NOT ABOUT BEING ANTI PORNOGRAPHY OR ANTI SEX WORK!

It IS, however, about Taylor not consenting to the images being made with her likeness. It's disgusting and horrible because it's explicit content made without consent, not because it is explicit content.

Sex work is WORK a woman (or anyone of any identity, but rn focusing on woman identifying individuals) can CHOOSE to do, with proper payment for her labor and a lot of check points during, before, and after to make sure she fully consents to the content.

Taylor didn't consent, she got her consent trampled on and mocked. That's why this shit is fucking disgusting and it shouldn't be permitted on any level, but don't hurt other woman by trying to put them out of a job because your uncomfortable with real consensual sex work or find it unsavory. What other woman do is none of your business.

P.s if you negatively interact with this post your just adding to my block list

#taylor swift #ai #anti ai #anti swerf #anti terf #yeah i said 'woman identifying individuals' just to piss you terfs off #stay the hell of my blog #pro sex work #feminism #nsft

[spongynova]

Reposting this cropped version of a mcspirk month drawing. Because it's the trans day of visibility. Because we're here to play with canon. Well, I am. Because canon is lacking.

Bones can be transmasc, Jim can be as gender fluid as he wants, and Spock can tell gender to go touch grass they're not interested.

With or without meds, with or without surgery, out or not, we are valid. We deserve to be understood, to be supported, to be loved.

Trans lives are beautiful.

I love y'all. Be queer, do crime and take care <3

#tdov #tdov 2024 #trans day of visibility #Terfs should go rot in a dark corner of the galaxy #with their fascist friends #if they could take the rich on their way out it'd be nice #this blog is pro trans #anti bigoted bullshit #and fuck capitalism

[autistic-katara]

wait till these ppl find out abt non-straight trans ppl, or feminine tboys/masculine tgirls, or ppl who don’t want to medically transition.

or are we the other half of the conversion therapy thing where we delusional girls/boys don’t even try to pass when we go and rape innocent lesbians/gay men or whatever

#this girl came up on my “based on her likes” thing nd her post seemed kinda sus in the radfem area so i checked her blog nd yeahhhh #also had a couple of aphobic things on there #transphobia #cw transphobia #anti radfem #anti terf

[saturnniidae]

I will never understand how people will agknowledge just how jk rowling is as a human being, and still like Harry potter. You can't fucking "separate the art from the artist" when the 'art' is filled with antisemitism, racism transphobia and more! You can't even think about doing that when the 'artist' herself is a fucking HOLOCAUST DENIER.

(Also it's even more pathetic considering jk rowling is actually a shit writer. Like let's be honest, everything people love about Harry potter is from the movies. Every bit of personality Harry had was from his actors portrayal of him)

These people don't care that they're clinging onto the mediocre work of a holocaust denier that wishes death to trans people because they're too wrapped up in nostalgia or whatever. It's pathetic and honestly disgusting.

And it speaks volumes how pretty much all the people I see behaving this was are white

#kind reminder to hp fans! get the fuck off my blog! idc if you hate jkr you're still contributing to the problem! #Also it sure is interesting how jk rowling wasn't publicly acknowledged for her shit until the transphobia #another great example of white people not caring until it affects them 💀 #anyway this is rlly random #but its bc i saw someone who was gay and also claimed to be a trans ally but consistently posted abt hp #like mf you cant be both. #fuck jkr #fuck harry potter #anti jkr #anti hp #this goes for thr mauraders fandom or whatever too. like have fun with your gay ships but at least admit you dont care about trans ppl #like youre still actively putting a terfs work on a pedestal and you know it. you just ignore it because you dont fucking care #i genuinely hate ppl like that like if ur gonna be a horrible person at least stip pretending youre not #moth.txt

[sleeppaw]

Authors and how they use their wealth

John Green: Uses his wealth to help fight tuberculosis

Rick Rhodian: Set up a publishing arm for Black, Asian, Hispanic and Indigenous authors

Andrea White: Campaigns for education and reading.

Many other authors have highlighted injustice.

Suzanne Collins: Disappeared into the woods

Then you have JK Rowling who is using her wealth to fund hate.

If I ever become a successful author, I would use my wealth to fight against injustice or pull a Suzanne Collins and disappear, only going out in public to promote a new book.

#sleepy's thoughts #bookblr #books and reading #anti jk rowling #Yes seriously the Fault Of Our Stars author is urging medicine companies to reduce costs of medicine used to fight TB #White worked in Texas' Education Compartment before embarking as an author #Even her debut novel had education as a plot point #Collins have a blog which she writes on once every few months #TERFS DNI

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

hey btw if youre transphobic, a terf or anti-choice you are not welcome on this blog

#obv same for all the other bigoted shit but fortunately i havent had any issue with that on this blog (so far) #but i did just have to block like 3 blogs who posted terf and anti-choice stuff in the past few days #cant believe i have to say this #negative

[orangesoda-fizz]

if you are pro-Israel, get off my page. if you are racist, get off my page.

if you are radqueer or “pro-c”, get off my page.

if you are a terf/swerf/radfem, get off my page.

if you are a pro-shipper or com-shipper, get off my page.

if you tell people to “kys”, get off my page.

if you are against contradicting identities (lesboy, gaybian, etc), get off my page.

if you are misogynistic, get off my page.

if you are fatphobic, get off my page.

if you are transphobic, get off my page.

if you are pro-endo/tulpa etc, get off my page.

if you are ableist, get off my page.

YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

#fizzytxt #dni list #get off my blog #pinned #GO AWAY #anti endo #anti rq #anti zionisim #transgender #contradictory labels #dni proship #dni comship #abelism #disability awareness #fatphobia #misogny #terf dni #anti transid #anti para #free palestine #free gaza #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtq2ia+ #lgbtq #queer community #queer not radqueer

[saltywinteradult]

so a longtime jonsa fam mutual of mine has hella gone off the terf deep end. i’m so confused because they used to post a lot of explicitly trans supportive and trans positive stuff. i don’t know what prompted them to do a 180, but it makes me deeply sad.

be careful out there, friends. none of us are immune to radicalisation.

#trans rights are human rights #trans rights #jonsa #jonsa fam #not trying to start anything #but i’m actually kinda upset about this #anti terf #i hate terfs #this blog is as much of a trans safe space as i’m capable of making it

[r-18g]

people who are anti-kink are so bizarre. why the fuck do you care what's going on in a stranger's bedroom. that's creepy as fucking hell, actually.

same for people who are anti-polyamory. fuck right the hell off with that shit. the fact that some people are non-monogamous does not have any effect on the lives of these assholes — they just can't stop obsessing over and shitting on anyone who falls outside of what they consider "normal".

#just encountered a blog that was an anti-polyamory anti-kink swerf/terf. gags. #you just KNOW that if these people were born a decade earlier they'd have fallen into straight up homophobia. #v speaks!

[silverameco]

in case it wasn't clear alrealdy, we hate jkr in this house and we support trans people

#fuck jkr #anti jkr #trans rights #fuck terfs #trans women are women #trans men are men #if you disagree unfollow me #marauders fandom #this blog is a safe space for trans people

[sunflowers-and-a-tardis]

if you're a terf you're disgusting. if you're a misogynist you're disgusting. if you're a white supremacist you're sure as hell disgusting. i don't know how much clearer i can make it but bigots are not welcome on my blog. fuck off and go be gross and mean and awful somewhere else.

#anti terf #fuck jkr #trans rights are human rights #nazis are the fucking worst #get away from my blog #how many of you weirdos and creeps do i have to deal with #bigots i will block you #anyway i'm a transgender communist fag #if i haven't made that abundantly clear by now