I disagree. Let's ask her, though, if she wants to apply this very binary term to her. It implies that you don't accept trans women as anything but men pretending to be women.
That's horseshit. Following that logic means you are alt-right. These labels are being used to demonize people.
Well... you're doing that too. If you want to call her a TERF because she doesn't want trans women to compete against biological women, then you're making the same mistake.
SJ's point is not that I am or am not a TERF. It's that expressing my discomfort with some of these ideas makes me a TERF in the eyes of these activists.
Early in the thread you wrote this, regarding your Facebook friends' reaction to
a column by Megan Murphy.
I doubt that. The trans-protection legislation is through the Senate, I think, so soon to be law. This will have to be tested in court.
I learned a new term yesterday - TERF. It means trans-exclusionary-radical-feminist and is a large schism in the feminist community, apparently between generations of feminists. The CBC ran an opinion piece from a Megan Murphy that is being absolutely roasted on my facebook discussion page as she is dismissing the law outright. It's a rare case of the CBC going to the right of the Liberal party.
I liked the column, I thought it made a lot of sense. I gather your friends didn't. I read about people talking about boycotting Murphy's website and so-on.
Women are being threatened and deplatformed and losing their jobs for expressing concern over things like male-bodied prisoners being put in the women's prison. It's not people interested in having a discussion who are calling for their heads (figuratively or literally.) The Quillette article SJ posted yesterday talks about this.
If your Facebook friends think Megan Murphy is The Enemy, they'd probably think I'm the enemy too. And I can live with that. But don't put the blame on me. I'm not the one who decided that there's no middle ground here. That would be your Facebook friend and these trans rights activists who've decided that nothing less than total agreement is acceptable.
-k