“Seeing them call themselves feminists and not recognizing trans women hurts me a lot”: Lido Pimienta responds to those who accused her of spreading hatred

In the midst of a debate, the Colombian singer-songwriter ended lido pepper after uploading to his Instagram account photographs in which he openly rejects transphobia. In the pictures, in which a portrait of her appears, a message is read that says “Shut Up Terfa”, a word used to refer to feminists who exclude trans women from the fight. ‘Terf’ for its acronym in English, is trans-exclusive radical feminist, in Spanish, Trans-exclusive radical feminist.

Through social networks, some people belonging to the feminist movement have accused the interpreter of generating division by using this expression which in turn, is understood as an insult. Among the comments that reached their profiles were: “women they don’t have a penis», « you are promoting hate and money. Congratulations, you are already a capitalist girl“, “to make money by denigrating other women and within feminism itself, another great achievement of capitalism and patriarchy”.

After the wave of opinions about his photographs, Lido set himself the task of releasing a statement in which he asserted, first of all, that without trans women there is no feminist struggle. “Message to terfas disappointed with me,” he began by saying.

I support all women and trans women support me Sorry if you’re just noticing. Trans women have been an integral part of our struggles, as revolutionary liberators and part of the strong, rich, painful, heavy, complicated, courageous and abundant fabric of feminism. I reject the terfas for have too much in common with branches and systems of power that deprive women of their rights,” she continued.

“As a group, you show alignment with the very strong cis-straight patriarchal capitalist system, the same one that rapes, exploits and abuses what you call ‘biological women’, especially girls and the most vulnerable. you stand for so much. The most notorious argument they have is that the trans women are “men in disguise”. It is a weak argument that justifies and validates the destructive actions of men in power, who need to speak the transphobic and poorly invested energy of the terfas to reinforce rejection of everything feminist, woman, feminine and also to everything get out of the heteronorm“, he added.

According to what he wrote, in his publication divided into four images, the “terfas” argument only focuses on people’s genitals. “It’s a disgusting morbidity that they have, and it is the same that they apply the political hypocrites of the world who reject that dredgers can read stories to childhoods, but who affirm laws where it is perfect that a 15 year old girl married a man aged 50 or overwrote the artist behind the acclaimed work Miss Colombia.

The Barranquilla woman pointed out that there is a wide variety of identities within humanity. He pointed out that just as there are women giving birth, there are trans men who have the ability to give birth. He pointed out that there are people who do not identify in a binary gender system, that they feel neither male nor female or that they feel both sexes at the same time. “They’ve been around forever. even in the animal kingdom he added.

“Seeing them call themselves feminists and not acknowledging trans women hurts me a lot, because it makes me feel like we’re not doing our homework right. Rejecting third, fourth genders and non-binary existences is a heteropatriarchal act, a direct consequence of colonization. So, Your disappointment in me is complete hypocrisy.” he concluded by saying that he will not remove controversial photos, as these types of debates are important to the community.