I have recently stumbled upon a subculture of women on twitter who call themselves “radical feminists”. These women believe that transwomen do not have the right to call themselves women, and that they are dangerous because they were born as males. Some of them are intersex, some lesbian, and some straight white women. All of them are extremely hostile and hateful toward anyone that disagrees with them or has anything to say that does not align with their personal views.

I have spent the past 24 hours or so engaging with these women. I have been called countless names, and attacked for my personal appearance and identity, just for suggesting that these women are being oppressive in their rhetoric. I have reported many accounts that exist solely to erase transgender identity. I have reported many accounts that claim to be “gender critical”—a term used to justify their stance that transgender is an invalid identity. 

Twitter has a clear policy about hate speech and “abuse”. I report people that I believe incite and perpetuate a toxic culture of hate and misinformation. I have been assertive with these women, however, I have not resulted to personal attacks. I don’t think.

Someone who believes that trans people have no right to identify as female suggested that “prancing” had something to do with my intelligence/opinions. I am a queer person, so I told them that they were a homophobe. From a quick glance at their profile, I was also able to tell they are a transphobic cis-gendered white woman. I do not want to identify this person, so I am not going to provide direct examples from their profile. (If I am not the asshole, perhaps I will post examples.) 

That said, my response to this woman was reported and my account was suspended, temporarily, for “abuse”. None of the accounts I have reported have had any repercussions. I am at a loss as to what I have done wrong. I thought I had been civil, and that these women were the one’s with the oppressive opinions. Now I am seriously wondering if it is bigoted of me to be calling these women out. I am a cis-gendered male but I did not think that meant I could not have an opinion on feminism.

Here is how the exchange went (the final quotation has been taken down and is what I was banned for):

“Yes, it’s the prancing that makes the difference.”
“Homophobe.”
“Name caller”
“LOL! Which is worse? Name calling is an honest artform. PS. I never said homophobe was your name. You took it that way. Because it is who you are. A hateful, ignorant, bigoted, self righteous, priveleged, homophobic cis-gendered white woman.”

Tldr; I was temporarily banned on twitter for calling out trans exclusionary radical feminists for being oppressive.

Am I the asshole for not letting these women express their opinions? 