Gene Mills: shelters should turn away transgendered victims of domestic violence

[shenmue]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gene-mills-shelters-should-reject-transgender-domestic-abuse-survivors

Ugh... Just ugh...

[alphafemale]

1. Sadly there are posters here at DU that would agree with that. nt

[theHandpuppet]

2. Wouldn't surprise me

Unfortunately.

[alphafemale]

5. It is a sad thing to see. nt

[Louisiana1976]

3. That's terrible.

[alphafemale]

4. Not for the reasons you may be thinking.

But there is a strong, vocal prejudice against all but those born with female genitalia by some here.

They may very well be here shortly.

[nomorenomore08]

6. There's at least one former DU'er I know of, who could be considered a TERF - as well as

an obnoxious, unpleasant person in general. I'd say her tombstone was well earned.

[alphafemale]

7. Was this a recent Pizza?

Because I have seen those types of posts very recently.

And that is exactly what I was talking about.

[nomorenomore08]

8. No, several years ago. I can PM you the name if you're interested. n/t

[alphafemale]

13. No that's OK. I've just seen that attitude recently.

I specifically remember it on a topic of transgender women using bathrooms.

It was as if the only reason these people were seeking to use the women's restroom was to peep at birth females parts.

I mean. Have they not heard of these things called....stalls?

[liberalhistorian]

10. What is

a TERF? I've never heard of that before.

[alphafemale]

12. Basically women that exclude transgendered from being considered female

There are many levels of hatred and discrimination.

It stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists.

Which is also rather hateful....but that is what it is.

[kcr]

15. Even if you're correct, which you're not

How do you get from that to they would want them excluded from shelters?

[alphafemale]

16. The question was "What is a TERF?"

To which I replied and supplied the definition.

I had to Google it myself, but I have witnessed the attitude it described.

[kcr]

17. It's often a term to slam feminists

The only thing I can remember was a dustup involving a DUer who has long since been banned. The trans member was also eventually banned for misogyny. There are no "TERFS" here. There were a lot of people smeared with that label when they defended the feminist forum, however.

[alphafemale]

18. I supplied the definition.

That is all.

I also noted that I disliked the term.

Transgender females are females just as much as myself or my daughter or anyone else so far as I am concerned.

I could care less about what their physical genitalia may or may not be.

If they feel more comfortable in the women's restroom I am all for that.

As I pointed out in another post on this thread, there are stalls in nearly every public restroom in America that I have been in.

If they need to go to a shelter? They should be welcomed there.

[kcr]

19. I'm with you

But some of us were unfairly slammed with that label simply because we didn't join in the pile-on of the Feminist forum. It's what caused the split that created HOF.

[kcr]

14. There are a lot of right wing trolls here for sure n/t

[Initech]

9. Republican, n.. One who has a complete lack of empathy for any race, gender, or social status.

[enigmatic]

11. Sickening. n/t