It's Not MY Opinion, It's A Fact That The "TERFS" Are Making Common Cause With The Worst Of The Republican-fascists

CONSIDERING HOW CHOOSY such "Trans exclusionary radical feminists" choose to be when it comes to who can use public rest rooms and other public accommodations,  they're remarkably enthusiastic about making common cause with the absolute worst of anti-Women, racist fascists.  Here is  what a short article from a long-time feminist and LGBTQ+ rights activist,  Sukey Wolf, says about that. 

Dancing with the right wing. 

These days there is a serious development that has taken the controversy in a dangerous new direction. Right-wing Republican politicians have decided to go after trans rights across the country.
This puts TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) in a position where their beliefs are in alignment with the extremists. In fact, Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank, put on a forum in January 2019 with panelists from WoLF, Women’s Liberation Front, a self-described radical feminist group that argues that biology is destiny.

I asked a friend, who is against inclusion, about what is to me the great contradiction of being a lesbian willing to team up with an outfit dedicated to the oppression of women and other groups. She said the TERFs have to take advantage of every opportunity to share their viewpoint and she didn’t have much of a problem with such allies.

I find this sort of complacency alarming, to say the least. What the anti-trans folks don’t see is that once the right finishes driving trans people back into the closet they will come for gays and lesbians. There is already talk of overturning gay marriage. So teaming up with the Heritage Foundation to push an anti-trans agenda just doesn’t make sense.

Feminism that does not include trans women is not feminism at all. When I was starting out as a gay movement activist, one of our demands was sexual freedom, the ability to express one’s sexuality in whatever way one chooses. I’ve always felt that since I wanted the right to be a lesbian, I needed to extend the right of self-determination to others, including transgender people.

Not only that. Trans women are human beings. As such we should support them and stand in solidarity with them. As long as a person lives as a woman and is subject to male violence (the murder rate for transgender women is much higher than in the general population) I support her as a woman. Feminism is about equality and inclusion. To oppose that is cooperating with the enemy.

As far as I'm concerned any group and the individuals in it who made common cause with  Heritage Foundation in 2019 are in the same category as those who made common cause with the KKK in 1919.  Or the German American Bund in 1939.  And their willingness to make that common cause with a millionaire-billionaire fascism promoting group is a good indication as to the nature of their issue,  opposition to the rights of Transsexuals.    I have always considered the Log Cabin Republicans,  originally the right-wing gay men's little club to promote the Republican Party to be worse than traitors,  I called them the "Uncle Tom's Cabin Club."   At first they made some "principled" stands such as to not endorse presidential candidates who work to oppress gay men and lesbians  (not being much bothered by the racism and sexism of their party) but now they're total Republican-fascists making common cause with Trump,   "TERFs" a term of the kind I'm generally reluctant to adopt but who I don't care if they're offended anymore,  are allies of the Heritage Foundation, what more does anyone need to know about what their real character, or lack of it, is?    I more regret that I called them "radical feminists" because they're futile as "radicals" who will never produce any progress towards equality and economic justice and making common cause with one of the most powerful anti-Women fascist groups in the country,  they don't deserve to be called to be feminists.   They're just another species of anti-equality assholes.