I’ve seen half a dozen posts today where people respond to transantagonism by talking about how Pride was started by trans women of colour. Some of them even invoke the names of the Stonewall veterans.
It is monumentally important to remember the contributions of these women, to remember just how fucking much of our community they built themselves, often against pushback from the rest of us.
But, while Pride started to commemorate the Stonewall riots, it wasn’t started by any of them. It was started by Brenda Howard. She was many things: Bi, kinky as fuck, Jewish, polyamorous, and proud of all of the above. But she wasn’t involved in Stonewall, and she wasn’t a TWOC.
You’re doing nobody any favours by conflating the two. We shouldn’t need to lie and retcon our own history to shut down TWERFs and their ilk. We can beat them by speaking the truth.
Pride was not started by TWOC.
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