If transphobic means I harbor any kind of prejudice,
emotional disgust, fear, anger or discomfort felt or expressed towards trans
people, then hell no, I’m not transphobic.
If transphobic means I promote, encourage, condone any form
of violence, harassment, or discrimination against trans people, then hell no,
I’m not transphobic.
If transphobic means I embrace bigoted fundamentalist xian
beliefs that trans people are perverted, inferior, deserving of hatred and
violence, then hell no, I’m not transphobic.
If transphobic means I dare call myself a Lesbian, a Dyke, a
Bulldagger and proud, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I prioritize protecting girls and womxxn
from males, male dominance, including males who want to claim for themselves
society’s gender box created to oppress females, then call me transphobic &
proud!
If transphobic means I dare to call out the tragic mutilations
you choose to inflict against your sacred body while I fight for your
individual right to do whatever the hell you want to do with your body, then
call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I know the only thing ‘assigned’ at
birth is gender, not sex, then call me transphobic and proud.
If transphobic means I refuse to be subjugated, disappeared,
vanished into the category of “queer” because my Lesbian or radical feminist or
female/womon identity makes trans folks & their allies feel ‘oppressed’,
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I strive for the difficult dialogue and
I refuse to be silenced by the threat of being labeled “transphobic”, then call
me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to have my words shoved back
down my throat because I am excluding someone who exploits their male privilege
to force me to ‘include’ them, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I call out internalized misogyny, womon-hating,
lesbian-bashing, feminist-attacking, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I will not deny or diminish but hold
supreme our ability to choose to create and sustain life – or not – as the core
of womxxn, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I identify and deflect bullying, male
dominance, superiority behaviors, internalized misogyny, radical feminist/lesbophobia,
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I decide who I gather with, who I make
love with, who I invite to organize with, to read and write with, to sing and struggle
with, to dance and fight with, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to ignore or minimize the
power and sacred wonder of my body, to eliminate my cunt, to cut my bleeding
from my identity, to know of what this means to be a womon, then call me
transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I revere the sanctity of womxxn is the
power to create life, should I choose; the power to give life, should I want; the power to sustain life and protect life,
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to ignore or deny the external
and internalized impact of patriarchal conditioning enforced by the privileges/oppressions
accorded to sex, since swaddled in assigned pink or blue, then call me
transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I repudiate the pretense alls it takes
to be a womon is hiding or carving down one’s dick, consuming fake hormones,
and painting your fingernails, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I joyfully embrace the power, the
sacredness of my cunt, my womb, bleeding from my identity, my breasts, my wide
hips, my thousands-of-nerve-beginnings-clit, then call me transphobic and
proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to silently swallow the fact
that hatred of a womon’s body is such a carefully force-fed given in our
society, so much that at least 77% of 17 year old young womxxn HATE their
bodies, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means if I dispute the absurd theory of the transgender
dominant claim that sex is not biological while they attempt to biologically
change their sex, then call me transphobic and proud.
If transphobic means I choose not to spend my energy making
transpeople feel accepted, comfortable, okay with their own personal decisions,
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I claim the right to gather with womxxn
who have survived girlhood, who are striving to love womxxn (especially their
own womon selves), then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I block your society- and god-given
male access to womxxn, with or without your original dick, then call me
transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to make room in my special
community of womxxn to ‘include’ trans folks, then call me transphobic and
proud!
If transphobic means knowing you will NEVER be a womon when
you are biologically a male no matter how many operations you have or drugs you
take, then call me transphobic and proud.
If transphobic means, even in this consumer-based society
where everything is for sale, I know an individual cannot buy a body of the
opposite sex, then call me transphobic and proud.
If transphobic means my experience, wisdom, power, knowledge
gained from spending at least 45 years of my life identifying, studying,
engaging, living and loving with hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of womxxn
has preeminence to the infant transgenderism, then call me transphobic and
proud.
If transphobic means I know womxxn are the sole authority on
womxxn, not the males who want to jump out of their gender box, which I applaud,
but then into the gender box the racist, sexist, misogynist dominant society
created, built, sustains for womxxn, then call me transphobic and proud.
Get off my back and out of my yoni, you trans-dominant, transgender,
transdomineering and liberal allied folks and take responsibility for your own
choices, build your own communities, find your own acceptance – and leave me to
mine, and us to ours.
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