Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.

A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.

While I'm not denying this is something that happens at all, I really want to say that this is very much misinformation, and I highly suggest reading this article. It's absolutely a scary time for trans people, especially for transfems and trans people of color, but this is irresponsible and isn't helping at all.

Update, btw

Tara has admitted the FBI letter was fake.

please don’t share this without context!

Tara did not fake the letter, she later learned it was fake. She really received what she thought was an authentic letter written by the FBI, and she naturally responded in fear. Sure, she didn’t do due diligence before reporting on it (neither did yall when reblogging this…) but she’s not a scammer or a grifter! The hate she’s receiving is disgusting and if she wasn’t a Black trans woman I don’t think she’d be receiving 1/10th of the backlash she is now.

can we also maybe STOP SHARING THAT ARTICLE WRITTEN LIKE A FUCKING CALLOUT POST, IMPLYING SHE IS A RAPIST, AND LINKING TO TRANSANDROPHOBIA POSTS SPREADING LIES ABOUT HER? That would be awesome thank you.

Stop giving The Needle absolutely any support as a credible news network, when it's posting transmisogynistic callouts worse than any article The Guardian has ever printed.

This was a hit piece. A single look at the article itself makes that very clear, and anyone spreading it is complicit in the hate and vitriol and racism Tara has been victim to these past few days.