(CW TERFS)
Some call it a branch of feminism
But if you ask me, it really isn’t.
And calling them such gets right on my nerves,
But the label that seems to have stuck is TERFs
That’s
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists!
Far right, conservative, liberal or Leninist,
If you’ve met them, you know what venom is!
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists!
They claim cis women are a social class
At risk of harm by the XY caste
That’s not quite true. They would never say this.
They’d just say “women”, they never say “cis”.
In fact they state that cis is a slur
And that TERF is too. But it doesn’t occur
To them that the names that they call trans women
Are slurs as well. Can’t be them that’s sinning!
The basic premise they want understood
Is that males are evil and females are good
It’s fine for them to call trans women names
For in punching up there is no shame.
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists!
Far right, conservative, liberal or Leninist,
If you’ve met them, you know what venom is!
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists!
They call trans women “Trans Identified Males”
As a label, I feel, this massively fails
I think they like it because it spells TIM
And snidely implies that a she is a him.
I’ve tried to take their fears into account
But it really seems there’s a large amount
Of “that might happen”. “There’s a danger of this”
All these crimes that trans MIGHT commit against cis.
They’ll attack us in toilets and changing rooms!
Real women are facing certain doom!
(It’s actually trans people getting attacked
In these spaces, but why spoil a story with facts?)
And they’ll never be told what to do by a man
Unless his name’s Graham Linehan
Attacking women’s a crime you see
But it’s fine when it’s those with whom they disagree.
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists!
Far right, conservative, liberal or Leninist,
If you’ve met them, you know what venom is!
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists!
Tom Juniper Poetry 