Summary:
The admin of The Kinfolk Kollective is transphobic, abusive and refuses to fight oppression when such struggle would damage her ego. A trans woman asked her to take down a transphobic post, and instead she derailed the conversation to be about white feminism, and deleted pro-trans comments from people of color to fit that narrative. This is not her first instance of transmisogyny, and the intentional narrative manipulation signifies that this will not be her last. We call upon other intersectional and revolutionary organizations to correct this error, or failing that, disassociate with the page.
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At LFM, we understand the necessity of struggle against racism, transphobia, capitalism, sexism, ableism and more; even within…show more content… This response has been delayed to allow for a more nuanced response and discussion among our group on how to respond to a problem like this, but we have waited too long and let the issue become forgotten.
On June 15, 2016, she, a black cis woman, shared a series of tweets, including one from a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist). TERFs hijack popular feminist posts and use them to rally against trans women (usually by wording their posts to include trans women with cis men). The only safe policy to prevent the spread of transmisogyny is to call out TERFs and to refuse to share their content (or at least strip attribution first).
A white trans woman with abuse history from TERFs commented to point this out, and request the standard takedown procedure to prevent the spread of transmisogyny. The twitter account had all the hallmarks of a TERF, which any cis feminist ally needs to be aware of, and Kinfolk Kollective 's failure in sharing this already counts as…show more content… She then insisted that the trans woman "stay in her lane", when in fact, as a cis woman, she was outside of her lane by attempting to define what is or is not transphobic. Her first reaction was to defend her ego.
A black woman (unsure if cis or not) responded by pointing out that it wasn 't a personal attack, it was just a request to take down transphobic content and that the responsive thing to do, as a cis ally, would be to take it down.
The original white trans woman responded to Kinfolk 's comment by talking about how she has been harmed and how the presence of TERF content renders a space unsafe and triggering towards trans women. Consistent with this abuse history, she backs into an apologetic mode at the dominating tone of Kinfolk Kollective 's comment.
Then, a non-binary person of color chips in to point out how Kinfolk Kollective failed to be intersectional by hiding her transphobia behind her