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I am a trans man incarcerated in a woman’s prison where feminism is a four-letter word
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Except… wide swaths of feminism still hate him for what he/she is. Because instead of being just a man, he/she is now a man refusing to adhere to the imposed rules of what women expect a man to be. So he/she is hated by them twice as virulently.
It’s why the term TERF - trans-exclusionary radical feminism - exists. Scratch the thin veneer of most feminists hard enough, and this can be found underneath in some capacity.
I really hope he/she has a strong support network in their friends and family members. They are going to need it.
He. Not he/she. He
Also as someone who knows a huge number of feminists that are militantly anti-terf, it's categorically untrue that strict, trans exclusionary interpretations of who counts as a woman are in any way an intrinsic aspect of feminism
You're right though, he will need a strong support system, and I also hope there are folks in his corner
Hope you are well
You’re vastly overestimating the number of TERFs in the world. Assuming you accept their classification as feminists in the first place, I imagine it’s easily under 1% of those who identify as feminists. I have literally never met one irl
If you're unsure of a person's pronouns, then using 'they ' is probably a better idea than 'he/she'.
Why are you using both pronouns?