Yeeeeah, I've encountered similar TERF arguments before. At least once, I ended up exerting my trans male privilege to kinda short circuit the bullshit, since I KNEW they would NEVER say that I wasn't a woman and thus couldn't possibly be mansplaining to them.
It wasn't a pleasant thing to do, but a lot of the time, they bank on nobody from "their side" to defend trans women, so they can uphold their false binary of "eeeeeevil trans women attacking us poor innocent real women." And being a non-passing trans man proves handy for that, since TERFs overwhelmingly focus on trans women, because they're fucking assholes.
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Date: 2019-05-02 04:10 pm (UTC)It wasn't a pleasant thing to do, but a lot of the time, they bank on nobody from "their side" to defend trans women, so they can uphold their false binary of "eeeeeevil trans women attacking us poor innocent real women." And being a non-passing trans man proves handy for that, since TERFs overwhelmingly focus on trans women, because they're fucking assholes.
--Rogan