TERFs: Trans people just have a persecution complex.

Also TERFs: The international trans cabal is using its power to silence and ostracise anyone who disagrees with them!
TERFs: Penis penis penis trans people are rapists paedophiles and MRAs and also child abusers and erasing lesbians and mentally ill fetishists and their very existence is a threat and and and

Also TERFs: The problem is trans people just aren't *respectful* enough.
https://twitter.com/CatisinSpace/status/1036305526559330305
https://twitter.com/CatisinSpace/status/1033756363787325441
https://twitter.com/CatisinSpace/status/1028374752178708480
(stolen from others)

According to TERFs:
- If you're under 16 you're not really trans because you're too young to know.
- If you're 16-25 you're not really trans because it's just a phase.
- If you're over 25 you're not really trans because you should have transitioned sooner.
TERFs: Trans women are bad because they're socialised as male.

Also TERFs: Not socialising your bepenised child as male is literally child abuse.
TERFs: Trans people are reinforcing the gender binary.

Also TERFs: Trans people? Swearing?!

https://twitter.com/czarkaztik/status/1039544428631871488
TERF: Swearing is not very ladylike.

Also TERF: *refuses to respect clear boundaries and demands free labour*
(I mean it's amazing how, despite their claim that we are men, they'll insist on abusing us in the most misogynistic ways they can think of.)
(Or maybe not, now that I think of it. I mean, calling a woman a man is pretty misogynistic to begin with. Anyway, back to the thread...)
TERFs: Trans people are erasing lesbians!

Also TERFs: Trans women aren't real women because our bodies are designed for reproduction.
TERFs: A scientific journal shouldn't cave to a mob putting politics ahead of science.

Also TERFs: A scientific journal shouldn't listen to methodological criticisms - however justified - from these people because we don't like them. https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1039948181503729665
(This is the "it's only politics when I disagree with it" form. Where have I seen that before?)
TERFs: If you don't get "The Surgery" you're not really trans.

Also TERFs: "The Surgery" is mutilation and also gross.
TERFs: *insist on incredibly overspecific definitions of words*

Also TERFs: Stop making up new words to describe things we've insisted the old words don't describe!

(And *that's* Newspeak.)
TERFs: We're fighting against the abuse of women and girls by a misogynistic patriarchal hegemony.

Also TERFs: Defending yourself against abuse is evidence of male socialisation.
TERFs: Trans people won't respect our boundaries!

Also TERFs: *having been told to fuck off, does not fuck off. every time.*
TERFs: Trans people are leading kids down a path of lifelong medicalisation.

Also TERFs: Trans people ridiculously don't think medicalisation is necessary to be trans.
TERFs: You call us fascists? You obviously don't understand how fascism works.

Also TERFs: Respecting kids' privacy is literally Nazis.

https://twitter.com/CF_Farrow/status/1047816155824627712
TERFs: Trans people are reinforcing the oppressive gender binary.

Also TERFs: Oppression is sex-based, not gender-based.
TERFs: Trans is a problem because it leads to people getting medical care they don't need or not getting medical care they need.

Also TERFs: Ensuring that medical care goes to the right people is erasure! https://twitter.com/NimkoAli/status/1055413371464544256
TERFs: Trans people are trying to gain access to women's spaces through deception!

Also TERFs: We don't care about deception. It's only a problem if we know about it.

https://twitter.com/G1rl_From_Mars/status/1057946007667990528
TERFs: Trans is gay conversion therapy.

Also TERFs: It's trans women and gay men against women.

https://twitter.com/matterrights/status/1058130682466185217?s=19
TERFs: Halp we're being silenced!

Also TERFs: Cis trans allies shouldn't be able to talk. https://twitter.com/LazyLondonGirl/status/1072807923653341184
TERFs: How can anyone object to "adult human female" as a definition of woman? It's objective reality!

Also TERFs: Don't call me cis.
TERFs: We're being silenced!

Also TERFs: The transphobia in the British press reflects what most people think.

https://twitter.com/quelizinha/status/1084269970656280578
Normally in this thread I point out where the self-contradiction is, but sometimes it's just too obvious to do that.

https://twitter.com/C1aire2/status/1084371036341182469
TERFs: Trans people are just playing oppression olympics!

Also TERFs: It's racist to say trans people are oppressed, somehow.
TERFs: Trans people just don't want dialogue!

Also TERFs: What we should do, is make a way so people can't give an answer we don't like. https://twitter.com/shaun_jen/status/1088352082090962944
TERFs: Trans people are just reinforcing the gender binary!

Also TERFs: Trans theory is too dependent on the binary-smashing ~postmodernism~ of Judith Butler and since we'd rather have JP than JB we hate postmodernism.
TERFs: Trans people are colonising female spaces!

Also TERFs: Every trans issue is about us somehow!
TERFs: lol how are trans people oppressed?

Also TERFs: Crimes against trans people aren't *really* crimes tho...
TERFs: This twitter account called an orange cat orange, obviously inciting sectarian violence.

Also TERFs: What's incitement about falsely saying a child murderer is trans to smear trans people?!
TERFs: If you're trans and straight you're not really trans or straight; you're just gay.

Also TERFs: If you're trans and gay or bi, you're not really trans; you're just a trender.

https://twitter.com/JennieBujold/status/1099770691015110656?s=19
TERFs: If trans people have rights, someone might enter a space with malicious intent.

Also TERFs: Someone was ejected for entering a space with malicious intent. This is an outrage!
TERFs: Our opinions are diminished because we're women! Misogyny!

Also TERFs: *alternates between calling being trans a 'cult' and a "mental illness" to diminish trans people's opinions* What transphobia?
TERFs: Your white middle-class privilege protects you against transphobia.

Also TERFs: Transphobia doesn't real.
(Really, TERFs' "white middle class" argument boils down to "Saying that the working-class and people of colour deserve the same privilege as the white middle-class makes you the *real* classists and racists." It's fucking nonsense.)
TERFs: Kids don't know what they want, so we don't have to respect their autonomy.

Also TERFs: You're just saying your kid is trans because you don't want them to be gay, violating their autonomy.
TERFs:

Also TERFs:
TERFs:Also TERFs:
TERFs:Also TERFs:
TERFs: Trans people are incapable of reasonable discussion.

Also TERFs: I'm going to ignore what you said and pretend you said a different thing. Look how reasonable I'm being!
TERFs: Trans people are "aggrieved narcissists".

Also TERFs: There was a school shooting but somehow we fascists are the REAL victims! https://twitter.com/DavidFutrelle/status/1126863226447245312
TERFs: Abortion is just a way for men to escape the consequences of careless sex.

Also TERFs: The steamroller of abortion bans in the US is trans people's fault somehow.
TERFs: Children are too young to make an informed decision about transition.

Also TERFs: It's outrageous that children are allowed to get informed about transition.
TERFs: Trans people keep gaslighting women.

Also TERFs: Trans people are mentally ill so their judgement can't be trusted.

(Is this what we call "saying the quiet part loud"?)
TERFs: Kids just say they're trans for attention.

Also TERFs: Trans kids' privacy shouldn't be respected.
TERFs: Don't call me cis.

Also TERFs: Trans people don't want us to have a word to describe ourselves!

https://twitter.com/boodleoops/status/1134900307614470149
TERFs: We can't even make any criticism without being called transphobic bigots.

Also TERFs: Oh, were you thinking of criticising me? Don't you know I'm a ~lesbian~ you bigot?
TERFs: Trans people are reinforcing the gender binary!

Also TERFs: These few trans people who *don't* think gatekeeping transness based on gendered expectations is outdated and insulting are "the good ones".
TERFs: Don't call me cis. I don't ~identify~ with it.

Also TERFs: Here is everything you, a trans person, think and if you disagree you're lying.
TERFs: Trans people are reinforcing the gender binary!

Also TERFs: "87 made up genders"
TERFs: Transwomen are not women; they're transwomen.

Also TERFs: "transpeople"

https://twitter.com/2damntrans/status/1154867834188644356
(not mine but let's include it for completeness)

TERFs: HRT is dangerous because it changes bone density.

Also TERFs: Trans women shouldn't be allowed in women's sports because HRT doesn't change bone density.
TERFs: Why don't you ever listen to detransitioners?

Also TERFs: Any decision a three year old makes about gender must be irreversible.
TERFs: Oh, a trans person was murdered? But how do you know it was transphobia?

Also TERFs: Oh, a TERF died of a medical condition that was nothing to do with trans people? Clearly the transes must pay.
TERFs: All the transes are white and middle-class.

Also TERFs: White trans people are erasing poor trans people of colour!

(Look, I get white trans people need to do better, but TERFs sure as fuck don't get to say that.)
TERFs: Trans people are denying reality.

Also TERFs: Trans people can't have a problem with our transphobia! It must be, ah, something else... I know! You misogynist lesbophobe!
TERFs: What rights don't trans people have?

Also TERFs: These ones.
TERFs: People who disagree with me don't belong in academia.

Also TERFs: Because academia only works if you're allowed to disagree.
TERFs: People who disagree with me don't belong in academia.Also TERFs: Because academia only works if you're allowed to disagree.
TERFs: People who disagree with me don't belong in academia.Also TERFs: Because academia only works if you're allowed to disagree.
TERFs: We're lefties I swear.

Also TERFS: So much for the tolerant left.

https://twitter.com/Nhamtn/status/1185516864170004480
TERFs: Why should we care about trans people, who only make up 0.5% of the population?

Also TERFs: We found HUNDREDS of people who regretted their transition, so why won't you listen to that ~0.1% of trans people?
TERFs: The number of AFAB people identifying as men is at crisis level!

Also TERFs: Self-ID will mess up statistics because more people will identify as female.
TERFs: If you're not British you couldn't possibly understand.

Also TERFs: All these made-up examples we've found of the transes dominating women's sport are, in fact, not British.
(GRA reform isn't going to change anything with regards to sport participation *anyway*, but exactly how do you imagine GRA reform in the UK could affect South African Caster Semenya, or the Chinese women's team, even if they *were* trans (they're not)?)
TERFs: You can't call someone a bigot just because they disagree with you.

Also TERFs: We have to *protect* our children against the *danger* of someone disagreeing with us.

https://twitter.com/vicparsons_/status/1232742057372004353
TERFs: Trans people are an extremely loud and vocal minority.

Also TERFs: Let's speculate about what trans people think because there is no possible way of knowing🤷‍♂️
TERFs: Over 90% of sex crimes are perpetrated by men so obviously that applies to trans women too.

Also TERFs: Over 90% of CSA cases are perpetrated by someone known to the child but it's a charity who is the real danger.
TERFs: You can tell trans women are men because of all the violent imagery that they definitely use.

Also TERFs: "A Cult Slayer"
TERFs: Trans women should get back in the closet.

Also TERFs: Trans women are privileged because they can go back in the closet.

https://twitter.com/RedCarDYell/status/1171329272813883392
TERFs: Trans and intersex have nothing to do with each other.

Also TERFs: Caster Semenya is trans. https://twitter.com/AllianceLGB/status/1252894805878804481
TERFs: Trans people just want to reinforce regressive gender stereotypes!

Also TERFs: https://twitter.com/s_boudicca/status/1227326884511440903
TERFs: The law should crack down on trans people.

Also TERFs: We are allowed to commit actual crimes, it's called "free speech".
TERFs: Trans ideology is an American import and therefore doesn't belong in our nation.

Also TERFs: May I present Fred Sargeant.
TERFs: You can't blame us for the one-year 81% increase in hate crimes against trans people, that's MEN's fault.

Also TERFs: Actually men don't like violence against trans women, that's how you know they're not really women. https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1278518218706112513
TERFs: It's homophobic to say someone isn't gay, whether they are or not.

Also TERFs: You're not gay.
TERFs: Children are being told they're trans!

Also TERFs: You're only a genuine tran if someone else tells you you are.
TERFs: If you don't like what we have to say, write an article about it. Direct criticism is harassment.

Also TERFs: Why are you turning off replies?! Why do you hate our RIGHT to personally harass you?!
TERFs: The fact that we had to fight for our rights is why you don't deserve rights.

Also TERFs: The fact that you have to fight for your rights is why you don't deserve rights.
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