trans women shitting on testosterone: you are doing jk rowling’s work for her, congrats
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i mean this *extremely* literally.
the moment you repeat “testosterone makes you violent”, even in jest, you have become a TERF.
it really is that simple.
in particular, i need my fellow trans women to understand that this rhetoric *is harmful to trans women*.
(i absolutely don’t want to dismiss or downplay the harm it does to trans men, transmascs, and any other trans/nonbinary people with a T-based system. but yknow, if the transfems shitting on T gave a crap about those groups, they wouldn’t be shitting on T in the first place.)
it’s exactly the rhetoric transphobes are using to take away our rights and healthcare.
it hurts *all* of us.
every time you say testosterone makes people into predators, you are directly supporting the people who say trans women should be kept out of bathrooms, out of sports, away from children, and generally out of public life entirely.
when you express that people are just the sum of their sex hormones, you throw every trans person under the bus. and you accomplish nothing that prevents harmful people from causing harm.
what is the upside here
who is helped
the transphobes and gender-critical crew *love* to hear trans women demonize testosterone, and they absolutely *do not give a shit* that trans women may not have any T in their systems at all.
they will take any ground you cede and ignore everything else.
the only move is to cede no ground. solidarity. you can’t let them in the back gate in exchange for your own safety.
