I think the terf logic here is that it’s slightly more socially acceptable to just erase trans people than to be outright on the side of nazis? Posy Parker doesn’t seem to mind either way lol, but also the cultural awareness of queer people as holocaust victims still seems new and relatively small, so perhaps they see it as a defensible hill to die on.
I think JK Rowling is the type of transphobe that wants to pretend transness is new. Understanding that Nazis were burning books about trans people does more than put TERFs on the same side as nazis, it also means trans people have been here a lot longer than whatever it is she blames.
Oh yeah, erasing of the history is something that all queer people are subject to, because that history tells us that we’ve always been here and are perfectly natural to the world, which transphobes especially just cannot have.
I think the terf logic here is that it’s slightly more socially acceptable to just erase trans people than to be outright on the side of nazis? Posy Parker doesn’t seem to mind either way lol, but also the cultural awareness of queer people as holocaust victims still seems new and relatively small, so perhaps they see it as a defensible hill to die on.
I think JK Rowling is the type of transphobe that wants to pretend transness is new. Understanding that Nazis were burning books about trans people does more than put TERFs on the same side as nazis, it also means trans people have been here a lot longer than whatever it is she blames.
Oh yeah, erasing of the history is something that all queer people are subject to, because that history tells us that we’ve always been here and are perfectly natural to the world, which transphobes especially just cannot have.