Exactly. If it wasn’t for how transpeople (especially transwomen) were and are treated in this country, I would have started transitioning back when I was a teenager and would have saved myself all the depression, alcoholism, and attempted suicides I went through and I wouldn’t have spent the last 15-20 years totally miserable and hating myself. I can’t say TERFs specifically were much of a problem back then, as it seems to be a relatively new phenomena, but it definitely is now and I see it as one of the main factors right now in the rising backlash to us obtaining equal rights.
And there is a big element of Oppression Olympics with the idea that giving us rights will take away rights from ciswomen. Rights aren’t a zero-sum game and this kind of baseless paranoia just increases hatred against us. And yes, @RickJay, misgendering us is dehumanizing us. FYI.