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> Furthermore pretty much everybody in every non-western country is a TERF. Many non-western nations traditionally had third gender (Hijras in India, Kathoey i
by dnsco 5y ago
> Furthermore pretty much everybody in every non-western country is a TERF.
Many non-western nations traditionally had third gender (Hijras in India, Kathoey in Thailand, many Native American Two-Spirit Identities). When these places were colonized these identities were used as a justification, and generally punished harshly. The argument that "only people in western nations tolerate this", is bad-faith, and doesn't recognize that anti-trans hostility in a lot of the non-western world was largely created by the colonial overlords this argument is meant to rebuke.
- mkr-hn 5y agoI've been excited to see a growing movement by indigenous people to reclaim their ancient understandings of identity in general, and gender in particular now that colonizers have lost the energy they had for suppression in past decades and centuries. A lot of it is just gone, but the nice thing about a living culture is it can rebuild and recover and build new concepts in the gaps.
- elgernon 5y ago>reclaim their ancient understandings hopefully not the human sacrifice though, there are some indigenous traditions better left in the past
- loudtieblahblah 5y agoWe only talk about the good things the conquered did and the bad things the victors did.
- throwaway32091 5y agoThe hijra cult in India kidnaps children and brutally castrates them, then pimps them out. Western gender theorists using hijras to justify their ideology is one hell of an own goal. https://www.rediff.com/news/1998/oct/20hijra.htm https://www.rediff.com/news/1998/oct/20hijra.htm https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19940515-determined-group-of-forcibly-castrated-men-file-criminal-charges-against-their-abductors-809139-1994-05-15 https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/1994...