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by hairybobbins 1330 days ago
'TERFs' are just feminists who want to retain female-only spaces.

This is not a viewpoint that's even remotely comparable to Nazism, whose adherents are a distinct group with a set of beliefs that are inherently contradictory to feminism.
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mschuster91 1330 days ago
The venn diagram intersection between Nazis and TERFs is shockingly high. Just look at who is constantly pushing anti-Trans narratives - it's Evangelicals and the wider GQP. Only a very negligible part of the tankie Left is also pushing that kind of crap.
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hairybobbins 1329 days ago
It's not, you have confused several different groups. Those you refer to as 'TERFs' are the feminists with a gender critical viewpoint, who are focused on women's rights and ending sex-based oppression.

I mean, can you imagine a Nazi, or someone in the other groups you mentioned, signing this declaration: https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/declaration-womens-sex-...? It's an entirely different ideological perspective.

This is a good article on where the gender critical feminists are coming from, and the rationale behind their activism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2

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throw_m239339 1330 days ago
> The venn diagram intersection between Nazis and TERFs is shockingly high. Just look at who is constantly pushing anti-Trans narratives - it's Evangelicals and the wider GQP. Only a very negligible part of the tankie Left is also pushing that kind of crap.

The intersection between the people who want to experiment on children with off label drugs, castrate chemically or surgically teenagers who have mental issues, and nazi doctors such a Mengele is even shockingly higher, because these are the real world consequences of an ideology.

All that insanity will ultimately cease with the avalanche of law suits incoming for medical malpractice, mutilation and torture, all done under guise of "care".

You can't separate the body from the mind, and you can't mend an unhealthy mind by butchering an healthy body, the proof is in the fact that people who suffer from these delusions are in need for constant validation of their alternative reality.

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