Silmarien
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- Feb 24, 2017
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It. Gets. Worse.
I've been tracking down the corners of the internet where gender critical radical feminists and trans-women who oppose the transgender movement are in conversation with each other, and ran across a black trans-woman "gender abolitionist" running with black feminist thought who implied that the transgender movement, given its strange focus on the sex industry, was actually pushing trans-people (particularly trans-people of color) towards inappropriate contentography and prostitution. (A friend of mine who works in sex trafficking advocacy and struggling against pushes to legalize prostitution confirmed that there does seem to be a lot of this going on.)
Alongside this, I discovered a new slur in the SJW transgender movement to go along with TERF: SWERF. Sex worker exclusive radical feminist. To believe that inappropriate contentography and prostitution contribute to the oppression of women (and people in general) now makes one a terrible, bigoted anti-feminist. It seems that little concern is being paid towards victims of sex trafficking, since the "choice" to engage in sex work is more important. Never mind that it isn't much of a choice when you are doing it because you feel like you have no other options.
It's an issue that Blaire White discusses here, since apparently when she was in her late teens and trying to pay for her transition, her transgender "support" groups were all pushing her towards prostitution as the answer:
The mainstream transgender movement itself (or whatever dark corner of the internet has been passing for it) seems to be an unmitigated disaster, but to get back on topic completely, I have concerns with the way that some radfems have been teaming up with conservatives to fight it. Apparently it drives them to insane, hyperbolic legal language with no basis in reality.
The way that the transgender movement seems to be all but engaging in sex trafficking, telling the people who depend on it that they may want to consider that they're good for nothing else, and seemingly wedding itself to liberal feminism to champion the normalization of prostitution, all while ignoring the issue of human trafficking, is probably the worst thing I've heard so far on this topic. But the underlying issue here seems to be social marginalization, since people don't go around thinking that their only worth to society is in prostitution (and the most dangerous form of it there is), if they have access to better work.
Given that conservatives seem to be contributing to this by championing their "right" to fire transgender people, I worry about alliances with them just making things that much worse rather than better if the conservatives cannot be liberalized a bit on the issue. But maybe they can be? "Hey, you're driving people into prostitution and indirectly contributing to efforts to legalize prostitution" is a pretty good argument.
I've been tracking down the corners of the internet where gender critical radical feminists and trans-women who oppose the transgender movement are in conversation with each other, and ran across a black trans-woman "gender abolitionist" running with black feminist thought who implied that the transgender movement, given its strange focus on the sex industry, was actually pushing trans-people (particularly trans-people of color) towards inappropriate contentography and prostitution. (A friend of mine who works in sex trafficking advocacy and struggling against pushes to legalize prostitution confirmed that there does seem to be a lot of this going on.)
Alongside this, I discovered a new slur in the SJW transgender movement to go along with TERF: SWERF. Sex worker exclusive radical feminist. To believe that inappropriate contentography and prostitution contribute to the oppression of women (and people in general) now makes one a terrible, bigoted anti-feminist. It seems that little concern is being paid towards victims of sex trafficking, since the "choice" to engage in sex work is more important. Never mind that it isn't much of a choice when you are doing it because you feel like you have no other options.
It's an issue that Blaire White discusses here, since apparently when she was in her late teens and trying to pay for her transition, her transgender "support" groups were all pushing her towards prostitution as the answer:
The mainstream transgender movement itself (or whatever dark corner of the internet has been passing for it) seems to be an unmitigated disaster, but to get back on topic completely, I have concerns with the way that some radfems have been teaming up with conservatives to fight it. Apparently it drives them to insane, hyperbolic legal language with no basis in reality.
The way that the transgender movement seems to be all but engaging in sex trafficking, telling the people who depend on it that they may want to consider that they're good for nothing else, and seemingly wedding itself to liberal feminism to champion the normalization of prostitution, all while ignoring the issue of human trafficking, is probably the worst thing I've heard so far on this topic. But the underlying issue here seems to be social marginalization, since people don't go around thinking that their only worth to society is in prostitution (and the most dangerous form of it there is), if they have access to better work.
Given that conservatives seem to be contributing to this by championing their "right" to fire transgender people, I worry about alliances with them just making things that much worse rather than better if the conservatives cannot be liberalized a bit on the issue. But maybe they can be? "Hey, you're driving people into prostitution and indirectly contributing to efforts to legalize prostitution" is a pretty good argument.
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