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Cartoon: Dragscrolling [1]

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Date: 2024-06-01  

This comic is by me and Nadine Scholtes. I’ll post a transcript in the comments. If you’d like to support us making more comics, and can spare it, here’s my Patreon.

GCs (stands for "gender criticals," the name TERFs have given themselves) are constantly searching for two things: men in unconvincing drag (even if it's deliberately unconvincing), and trans women who - at least in the curated photos GCs choose - don't "pass" as cisgender women. (The GC, of course, don't distinguish between these two very different things.)

The photos, when found, are circulated on GC social boards and media. Often accompanied, without any conscious irony, by complaints that "they're shoving their lifestyle down our throats!"

The effect of all this is to prescribe a restrictive idea of gender. Women are only allowed to look a certain way; those who don't look feminine enough for GCs' arbitrary standards are mocked and disdained. There's even been a bunch of times that GCs (and their allies the Christian right) have circulated photos of cis women who aren't what GCs consider feminine, calling them "men in dresses."

That this is coming from people who call themselves gender critical is laughable. What they are is gender police.

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