The Witch Hunts and how to Avoid Fire

There's obviously a lot of people who hate trans people, TERFs are the most vicious and active group. If a TERF decides to yell at you about TERF being a slur, you're doing something right. Trans Erasure Radical Feminists are basically the greediest group trying to fight their own ideals while fighting for their own ideals. Equality is the true goal of real feminism, the goal to have white & black women and men all held to the same standard. A black woman with a PhD treated with respect compared to the white news anchor screaming slurs is not how it is right now, someone who's doing real work saving lives would be RUINED by some news guy from nowhere, USA. So if you've come here to say TERFs do nothing wrong, think about what you're fighting for. Is it for equality and peace, or do you just want things for you?

Now that we've got that out of the way, how do you deal with a TERF? Well, protection is key. They normally have two goals, harass you off of the internet and away from any support groups, and out you to whatever friends and family you have through doxxing and hacking. They could easily send it to 4chan or Reddit and have dead animals in your mailbox by 2pm. Online security is work, but we need to work to be safe. You've gotta have multiple emails, passwords, and keep that shit locked down. Any accounts with your address go to one email, that one will be an alphanumeric password, all the keys you can think of, written down in a desk. Deadname accounts go to a deadname email, they can't link this facebook that's Nathan Zachary to a twitter that's Betty Charles as easily if one is nathans420sky@live.com and one is bettybug@gmail.com but if both link to one or the other that's bad news. Yes, you want all your email in one place and simple and easy, but separation can mean your entire world doesn't get overturned for tweeting "fuck TERFs" once.

However you can tweet "FUCK TERFS" as much as you want with a little help from, your friend: Blocklists. (I strongly recommend the TERF and GAMERGATE blocklists, just in case any of those GG people are still around.) Both of those groups quickly become vicious mobs, and if they start harassing you it's pretty much going to be out of control in ten seconds. Both of these can stop you from being tweetsearched and harassed at the drop of a hat.

This doesn't make you immune, the best we can do on the internet is minimize risk. Twitter support and the police are not going to help you, this is just kind of how it is. It's super shitty but the whole thing falls on you to deal with alone, but not quite alone. Your support group is important, where are they? Can they be attributed to you? You're going to need them if you're attacked, and TERFs know that. Their goal is to make your life hell, suicide and ruining lives are their "wins". Keep your support group close and in the event of an attack talk to them, make them secure too.

I won't bore you with alphanumeric passwords and pros and cons of using browser keychains. If you're interested in security there's conferences about internet security, and how you can try and stop most of an attack. The internet might not welcome you everywhere but the whole open source movement means you can use the same video someone learned to attack you on the internet to defend yourself against that attack.

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