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Cristan Williams is a trans historian and pioneer in addressing the practical needs of the transgender community. She started the first trans homeless shelter in the South and co-founded the first federally funded trans-only homeless program, pioneered affordable healthcare for trans people in the Houston area, won the right for trans people to change their gender on Texas ID prior to surgery, started numerous trans social service programs and founded the Transgender Center as well as the Transgender Archives. Cristan is the editor at TransAdvocate.com, chairs the City of Houston HIV Prevention Planning Group, is the jurisdictional representative to the Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS), serves on the national steering body for UCHAPS and is the Executive Director of the Transgender Foundation of America.

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CAN-0000-0271-C73A

Balance of exposing male violence vs. transgender agenda

TRIGGER WARNING for violence and transphobia! The TERFS have a fairly full agenda when it comes to their feminism. It does deal with violence (male violence while ignoring female violence) but when it comes…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0272-41A3

#RadFem2013 Hatefest At London Irish Center

Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERF) are planning a conference for June 8th and June 9th at the London Irish Center in London. Last year they planned on having this at Conway Hall but since…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0273-9E5A

TERF Quotes

The first post in this blog is simply going to hi-light some actual quotes from the TERF community. If you would like to have quotes added to this list please sign up for an…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0270-C519

“Being Feminist” and Their Transphobia Problem

*Disclaimer* This post is on a site exposing TERFs but we are not insinuating that Being Feminists are part of that group. UPDATE: LA has apologized for and removed the inflammatory post on Being…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0263-9E36

The Not-So-Pretty Hate Machine

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Culture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0264-237E

This Is How TERFs Twist Things

Do not trust what a TERF tells you. EVER. Because it is total bullshit. @Jackieme2009 was concerned about trans women and the bedroom. I told her she didn’t have to worry about that. https://twitter.com/danaequality/status/364350675498438656…

Feminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0265-378D

Victoria Brownworth And Her Transmisogyny Problem

Also at http://www.transadvocate.com/for-the-last-time-victoria-brownworth-is-not-a-transphobe.htm So, what does an award winning writer think of Trans* Women’s genitals? She thinks they are funny and that it is okay to make fun of. As you can see in…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0266-423B

The Astell Project Transphobia

This is a very unfortunate situation. What started out as an amazing opportunity to address gender inequality in education seems to be turning into an anti-trans organization. At least this is how it looks…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0267-F3AC

TheLesbianMafia Ramps Up Their Transphobia

@TheLesbianMafia has escalated their anti-trans agenda. They (though I think it is actually just one person) has been upset about trans women wanting the same rights as they do. One thing they have been…

Law and civil rightsTransgender identity and history
CAN-0000-0268-D652

Deep Green Resistance – Lierre Keith Memes

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Culture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0269-4198

Cathy Brennan – It IS Transphobia That Kills Us

Cathy Brennan, contributor to the Radfem2013 conference, has sunk to yet a new low. She is now trying to exploit the death of our sisters (Transgender Day of Remembrance – TDOR) to further her…

Transgender identity and historyViolence, safety, and dehumanization
CAN-0000-0250-3A21

A Challenge to GallusMag, Editor of GenderTrender

Apparently I’ve made the big time. I discovered that GallusMag, self-identified RadFem (TERF), RadFem opinion leader and co-founder of RadFemHub, has attempted to troll me on her infamous TERF blog, GenderTrender. According to GallusMag,…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0252-D6FC

A Shezow Game: Spot the TERF!

Horror of horrors: there’s a cartoon wherein a boy puts on a ring that dresses him up like a female superhero. You just know that’s going to bring out the RadRight/Fem fringe to proclaim…

Education and youthFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0253-F364

TERFisms: the MAAB/FAAB binary

Anti-trans RadFems, AKA Trans Exclusionary RadFems (TERFs) – not to be confused with non-hate radical feminism (AKA, feminism) – claim that gender is a fallacy. As an ironic (though the irony is completely lost…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0255-10D2

You might be a TERF if…

I’ve noticed that there seems to be some confusion about what a TERF is so, here’s a quick guide to help you figure out if you’re a TERF. Chances are that you’re a TERF…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0257-7978

1974: TERFs & Trans Folk

The following article was published in 1974, one year after TERFs politicized the use of restrooms, advocated for the public exclusion of trans people in the queer rights movement and participated in beating trans…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0259-67B4

TERF Quotes 2.0

The original Terf Quotes page has gotten to large and won’t let me update it so creating a new one. https://twitter.com/dianicpriestess/status/385895430728331264 (tweet now deleted) Uhm, actually no. That is not my account. And Dana’s…

Feminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0261-BEFE

TERFs: The Insurance Fraudsters Of Feminism

You know the ones. They pretend you hit them in your car by jumping on your hood while you are moving slow and pretend to have an injury so that they can claim on…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0262-C87B

The TERFs Are Becoming Restless.

Hate is a weird thing. There are clear stages it goes through during its lifetime, from ridicule and baseless claims to anger and violence. Many people have reasons to hate, a reaction to a…

Family and relationshipsFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0248-F209

Hypocrisy, Hate and Harm #no2h8splc

The above is a picture of militant lesbians and gays protesting against a movie that promoted false gay stereotypes. March 18, 1970 Ladies’ Home Journal Sit-In Above is what happened when a bunch of…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0242-9E6D

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

Excerpts from Gyn/Ecology (1978) by Mary Daly, PhD: The Dionysian solution for women, which is violation of our own Hag-ocratic boundaries, is The Final Solution. To succumb to this seductive invitation is to become…

Feminism and gender politicsHealthcare and medicine
CAN-0000-0244-B1F8

1973 – Dismissed Trans Heroes: Lee Brewster

I’ve noted before how TERFs inspired the violence inflicted upon Stonewall hero Sylvia Revera. Until now, I wasn’t aware that their cruelty was extended to the transperson who coordinated and paid for overturning anti-gay…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0246-2790

That time a TERF trolled the TransAdvocate & GLAAD

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Feminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0188-4BE1

Attorney Cathy Brennan: More extreme than an ex-gay hate group?

The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is a right-wing activist organization and huge supporter of the ex-gay movement as well as the debunked practice of conversion therapy. Recently, the PJI stirred up the right-wing word…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0191-0063

Fact checking TERF claims

Here’s the claim: Here’s the sequence of events: Talks to PJI Tweets PJI’s statement to the TransAdvocate Issuing PJI’s response to the TransAdvocate More on this story… 0

Feminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0192-CDAC

TERFs side with Fox News

Unsurprisingly, Cathy Brennan, opinion leader in of the TERF movement has, of course, chosen to side with the Fox News and the Pacific Justice Institute: Brennan, an attorney the LGBT Bar Association disavowed… ……

Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0196-3A55

1991: Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

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Culture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0198-7E6F

1973: West Coast TERFs

… perhaps the most consequential incident in the rising tide of hostility toward transgender people in the summer of 1973 was directed against transsexual lesbian singer Beth Elliott by Robin Morgan at the West…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0199-8066

TERF: Where the term comes from

According to TERFs, the term TERF is a slur. Moreover, they assert that it is insulting, hyperbolic, misleading, and ultimately defamatory. Allen actually calls for more people to recognize radical feminists as a hate…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0177-96D0

TERF: what it means and where it came from

Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERF) are quick to make fact assertions about the term, TERF. According to TERFs, the term is a slur and use of the term makes one a misogynist. Others assert…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0179-96FC

TERF attempts to censor LGBT magazine

OutSmart magazine asked me to write a piece on the TERF phenomena. My 2500+ word article featured just two sentences that mentioned Cathy Brennan’s behavior. Cathy Brennan – a Maryland attorney, activist, leader and…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0180-C6A8

5,000+ people agree: TERF group is a hate group

The nonprofit, Secular Women has created a petition calling on the Southern Poverty Law Center to regard TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan’s group, Gender Identity Watch, as a hate group. The petition starts off, “As…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0182-B893

Naming the problem

What follows are the words of a cisgender feminist who can no longer not name the problem: I suppose in the past I’ve avoided, for the most part, discussing specific perpetrators of transphobia and…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0185-E57A

A RadFem on TERF nonsense

What follows are the statements of a Radical Feminist, Alexandria Brown of Techno Feminist Utopia who rejects TERF dogma: There is a mortifying, first-wave essentialist transphobia constructing straw arguments about trans politics and glibly…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0162-B033

See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid

Tumblr TERF, radfem-momma apparently thinks it’s okay to threaten to trans kids with murder as long as you lie about the reason. BACKSTORY: This post has to do with Tumblr TERFs trying to make…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0167-B4E1

Sheila Jeffreys’ source is now stalking trans kids

A source Sheila Jeffreys used to construct her sex essentialist anti-trans book, Gender Hurts is currently stalking trans kids. “I am grateful, too, to the new wave of radical feminism both online and offline.…

Education and youthFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0172-DE7B

#TERFweek starts now!

What it is #TERFweek is a week of education, raising awareness and openly talking about the abuse our communities have endured at the hands of the Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist movement. From Monday, August…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0154-73E4

Quisling Discourse

There are a few trans people who are TERF sycophants in the same way that there are a few gay people who are anti-gay movement sycophants. These individuals are called “quislings” or “TERF tokens”.…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0156-6A5B

Stuff You Should Know Podcast on TERFs

One of the Stuff You Should Know podcasts titled, Stuff Mom Never Told You just did a fairly good podcast on TERFs. Please go to their twitter and facebook and thank them for examining…

Feminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0159-0888

[UPDATED] The Cover-up of a MichFest Rape

While much has been said about the intentional exclusion of trans women at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, almost nothing is written about rapes that occur at MichFest. The festival is rhetorically constructed to…

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0161-772F

Quisling Logic

How trans quislings justify mandating themselves out of existence: [View the story “Quisling Logic” on Storify] 1+

Culture, identity, and representation
CAN-0000-0125-4349

#TERFLogic: A TERF knows what a man’s jaw looks like

#TERFLogic: TERFs on Reddit know what a “man jaw” looks like Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment |…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0117-09EA

#TERFLogic: It’s wrong to misgender gender critical TERFs

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0118-AFD9

#TERFLogic: Sexism clings to eggs and sperm

A TERF blog that tries to make the case for sex essentialism claims that sexism is predicated upon sperm and eggs: according to this #TERFLogic, this man is oppressed as a female. No, that’s…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0119-B5DF

#TERFLogic: Trans women shouldn’t have access to estrogen!

Here’s what actual medical and psychological professional groups have to say about trans medical care: Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”]…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0120-8C55

#TERFLogic: Fashion advice means a #TERF should buy a gun

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0121-DBA7

#TERFLogic: Is it wrong to tolerate trans people? Yes, yes it is.

Also, trans people are possible murderers!!! (unlike cis women, right?) And besides, trans women commit crimes (like rape and pedophiliat) at the same (or even greater!!11) rate that cis men do!!! (except that’s all…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0101-1422

#TERFLogic: HOW DARE THIS UNCLEAN PERSON HELP ME OUT!!!

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0103-D259

#TERFLogic: trans women are like pedophiles!

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0107-6501

#TERFLogic: video games & the internet make people trans

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0109-84EB

#TERFLogic: transition means you hate women

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0112-85A6

#TERFLogic: transition is like rape

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0113-D7F0

#TERFLogic: trans women are like pedophiles!

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0087-C614

#TERFLogic: Anime causes women to become trans men

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0042-B110

#TERFLogic: oppression is talking about TERF violence against a trans kid

More info about this MichFest incident is here. Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF”…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0044-BE63

#TERFLogic: heterosexual privilege doen’t exist for cis women

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0045-DB46

#TERFLogic: an unconstructed binary has 3 positions

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0046-2218

#TERFLogic: cis women who aren’t TERFs are obviously men

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0050-AD17

#TERFLogic: TERFs don’t hate trans people… except trans lesbians.

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0040-1A17

#TERFLogic: Right Wing Women Are Also Radical Feminists.

For those who’ve not yet read Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women, please do read this radical feminist critique of right wing women: Since right wingers from Tea Party politicians to the WBC hate group…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0029-D1E1

#TERFlogic: Hate is love and love is hate

Parents who love their resentment more than their trans kids hurt their kids. Don’t let their hate overwhelm you: Trans Lifeline: US: (877) 565-8860 Canada: (877) 330-6366 The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386 Chat or text…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0030-1ED5

#TERFlogic: Real oppression is being rejected for anti-trans bigotry

Like the gamergaters and the political right, they claim oppression when they aren’t provided a safe-space-to-shitpost platform anywhere and everywhere… because that’s what real oppression looks like: being so privileged that being asked to…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0034-48C5

#TERFLogic: FaceBook is part of the trans conspiracy!

Bonus: B… b…but, TERF IS A SLUR!!1!TM Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0035-84ED

#TERFLogic: normalizing pedo obsessions is radical!

The type of treatment Dr. Zucker practiced on gender nonconforming children was informed by research that quantified how physically attractive effeminate prepubescent boys are: While TERFs spend a lot of time concern-trolling over trans…

Education and youthFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0038-C994

#TERFLogic: Milo is the victim of a well-timed trans conspiracy

Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0025-F8BC

TERFs join anti-Feminists in order to attack trans children

To summarize its arguments, the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) asserts that interpreting anti-discrimination laws to protect transgender students from harassment will somehow result in the erasure of women and girls as a protected class.…

Education and youthLaw and civil rights
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