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sometimes i have to wonder, like, what do transphobic radical feminist lesbians feel about citing religious conservatives in their arguments against trans people?

like, obviously 'religious conservatives agree with you' is not, in itself, an argument against an idea. Hitler ate sugar and so on. and while you would expect the overall argument against trans people to differ between these two groups, nothing is preventing them from noticing individual facts that they think benefit their position and quoting each other on this observation. but, like, you're still aware that these people hate you. that seems like a hard thing to forget. So does it feel weird to cite them? does it trip up any ideological purity instincts? It definitely would to me, if for some reason i agreed with them on some controversial subject and decided to cite them for lack of better sources.

I've obviously cited people whose ideology I disagree with in some particulars, lots of times. That seems nearly unavoidable. but there's a distance between 'we disagree on some points' and 'we have diametrically opposite worldviews, they hate me just as much as they hate you, and in fact for the same reasons'.

maybe that's just my kneejerk reaction to religious conservatives, and i am incorrectly projecting it onto all the other groups religious conservatives hate. Maybe most people the religious conservatives don't like, even cis gay people and radical feminists, just see them in the category of 'yet another person who is wrong about some things and right about some things'.

Or maybe they have the exact same reaction i do and cite them anyway, who knows.