telegantmess:

whitesaviorcomplex:

I’m slightly convinced that a lot of people on here just see TERFs as just “people who exclude others”
and not a genuinely dangerous group of people who target and ruin the lives of trans women by any means necessary

Time for a history lesson!

Sandy Stone was a sound mixer and engineer for the feminist lesbian separatist music collective Olivia in 1974. She is a trans woman and was a member of the collective for 4 years. She left the collective after a deluge of abuse against her and the collective for allowing her to stay. This abuse included death threats which culminated in a group of armed cis women attempting to enter a performance in Seattle that Stone was working at with the express purpose of killing Stone. That group called themselves the Gorgons, and they were a separatist, paramilitary group that had guns with live ammo confiscated from them when they tried to enter the event.

The following is a quote from Stone in an interview she did for TransAdvocate:

“I was pants-wetting scared at that event. I was terrified. During a break between a musical number someone shouted out “GORGONS!” and I made it from my seat at the console to under the table the console was on at something like superluminal speed. I stayed under there until it was clear that I wasn’t about to be shot… Not that it would have done me any good to be under there.”

The full interview can be found here: http://transadvocate.com/terf-violence-and-sandy-stone_n_14360.htm

Do not think that TERF rhetoric is just about exclusion, or that any of it is new. This has been going on for decades, and this is just one tiny example.