We all agree terf has not been a useful term for a long time, it implies they're feminists, it implies they're for women, it reinforces their arguments that they're on the side of women and gives them space to hide their more extreme elements.
Why not something like cis-supremacist? Something that is far-right adjacent would be useful in making people properly make this connection, especially given who they're allying with lately.
I feel like it's too weak yeah.
My thinking for cis-supremacist is really coming from the position that:
Calling them a type of supremacist feels right to me. Their reactionary nature to trans people isn't based in women's rights or spaces, it's based in the supremacy of the cis order and patriarchal system. What they care about is upholding cis supremacy and not allowing equal rights and treatment between cis and trans people. Trans people live in conditions akin to a gender-identity apartheid where their rights and treatment are not the same as cis people and trans people are in a battle with supremacists to change this.
It feels naturally comparable to white supremacy, translated over to gender-identity.
That's a great explanation and I agree. Trans-supremacist makes sense and rightly puts them alongside white supremacists. I guess the tricky part is getting large numbers of people to use it instead of TERF.
I think trans-supremacist would be those of us advocating for forced feminisation of men but I'm glad I'm not just sounding crazy about this. I am finding it quite difficult to put it all to words.
i just call that being based