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Short answer: Because they killed all progressive movements.

Long answer: Trans activists hijacked and colonized the women's movement and the gay community, and even other movements such as BLM and disability rights, so now every protest has to be about "trans" people. No group can protest, fund-raise, or advocate for just themselves without pasty Gen Zers with neon hair and creepy middle aged men in wigs screaming about how they're the most oppressed people ever and it's their right to rape and kill anyone they disagree with.

"Trans" people and their allies have spent the past decade bullying everyone into submission, ostracizing and threatening anyone who questioned or criticized them, making every march, movement, and slogan about themselves, and destroying women's rights and the gay and lesbians communities from the inside.

This left the door wide open for conservatives to come in and finish us off. If it wasn't for "trans" people and their allies, we would've likely still had a solid defense (class/female/gay solidarity) against the rise of the far right, and Trump may not have been elected a second time.

But instead we have tribalism, insane amounts of violence, hate, and censorship, struggle sessions, and fractured movements that are mere shadows of their former selves, and it's all thanks to "trans" people and their allies.

They tore our communities apart, stripped us of our hard earned rights, spaces, and resources, and then mercilessly beat us until we lay on the ground, unable to defend ourselves from the MAGAs, who finished the job by simply walking up and setting our bruised and bloodied bodies on fire.

And instead of putting the fire out, "trans" people and their allies are watching us burn while insisting they're actually the ones on fire.

The Democrats are not spineless. They're not cowards. They're not fighting back (much) because they don't care what the Republicans do to this county or its people.

They embraced "transgender" crap because they were paid to. They killed much of solidarity between and progress made by women, gays, working class, etc., because it was profitable. Even if they're elected out of office, they have enough money to be just fine. That includes your beloved AOC, who wouldn't piss on any of you if you were on fire.

And also, about the conservative normies: I believe it because I have also seen it. I live in a red state. I know conservatives who are indifferent to homosexuality but up in arms about "transgender".

A few replies on this have mentioned the gradual conservative acceptance, and they're right. Conservatives were slowly coming around, viewing us indifferently at the very least. I noticed the shift after same-sex marriage was legalized. It was begrudging, but most lost interest in protesting it.

Until "transgender" became a thing.

So we have the liberals, standing on their soap boxes promising to expand the reach of these types of men, allowing them access to vulnerable women, telling children they're in the wrong body, calling exclusive same sex attraction transphobic, and promoting bullshit female erasure in medicine.

We also have conservatives, promising to remove males from women's sports, prisons, and shelters, that they'll enforce proper sex markers on legal documents, and remove perverted lessons from schools. While also fighting to get rid of abortion, birth control, no fault divorce, and gay marriage.

So if you're a woman or a gay man, where are you supposed to go, politically? Both sides are against you. So some are voting conservative on the idea that the can win back abortion, birth control, and gay marriage, while others are voting independent or abstaining.

To answer this question—and because I’m learning to write long, well-argued essays—we’ll turn to various descriptions of what a woman is. As someone who’s spent time in groups with an excess or moderate amount of trans women, Let's take.

1) «The Female Soul.» This is a description I’ve often heard from lesbians. Just an observation. It’s kinda poetic stuff.

But if we think clearly, what the hell is a "soul"? Is this Christianity? As a biological woman, I can say I have neither a female soul, nor a male soul, nor any soul at all. Why? Because my soul is my brain. I’m not governed by some transparent little human living inside my ribs or a gnome-like entity. I’m governed by my brain, and my brain alone.

Okay, even if we assume souls exist and can differ from the body, how do you determine your soul’s sex? Does it wear a bow like in some video game or cartoon? What happens to the soul after death? Can someone at least explain the rules of this religion?

2) "Feeling Like a Woman." At first, I considered merging the first and second points, but the first one has a religious, poetic vibe. As a biological woman, I don’t "feel like a woman." Like, at all. Because I don’t know what it means to feel like a woman (or a man, or anything else). Just like I don’t know how to "feel light-skinned." It’s just how I was born. There’s no sensation here—it’s a fact.

The best we can do is guess what this "feeling" means. Does it mean "wanting to wear makeup, dresses, and watch rom-coms"? Well, buddy, in that case, I should’ve been born in makeup, a dress, and holding popcorn so I could immediately start watching How I Met Your Mother (4.5/10, by the way).

3) Biological Reasons. Nobody talks about biological reasons. The least popular reason. The idea here is that men and women have differently shaped or sized brains (sound familiar?). But it’s a weak argument—probably why it’s so unpopular. If we assume it’s true, then why do we determine a baby’s sex by looking between their legs during an ultrasound instead of scanning their brain? Usually, these brain differences correspond to body size differences. But what if I told you brain mass can also depend on neurological conditions? Why aren’t teens sorted into "male" or "female" categories based on brain size during puberty? What about naturally large people? What about non-binary folks? Their brains don’t just disappear. Or is there a non-binary brain now?

You might ask: "But how can this be, Lovelycranium? Where are women's descriptions that you promised?" Honestly, because there are no clear descriptions in gender spaces. They might say it’s "people who identify as women," but the methods of that identification are never specified.

To clarify what "being a woman" actually means, we can turn directly to the trans community.

1) Hunter’s Words. I definitely don’t keep up with his work. And this character’s lines make me react like: "😦❓❓❓". One Wikipedia page says it all, but the most interesting part was:

"My gender was so influenced by a need to be used by men. My sexual orientation was not gay, it was not straight, it was an attraction, is an attraction, always to misogyny. Not feeling femme enough w/o being a victim of rape. The idea of being eaten used to arouse me."

Absolute cinema. Do I even need to point out what’s wrong here?

Let’s assume most trans people don’t feel this way. Then why hasn’t Hunter been canceled for this? Why hasn’t he been called transphobic? Because, I suspect, this is considered normal for them.

Does this mean that, for them, "being a woman" means being a victim of male sexual violence? Wonderful. Meanwhile, as a biological woman, I somehow don’t want to be a victim of sexual violence—or any violence, for that matter.

2) «Women Are Unicorns, Men Are Dragons» I stumbled upon this comic back before I wrote radfem posts. It’s pretty popular on Tumblr—maybe you’ve seen it. If not, you can look it up; it won’t take long. The author (presumably a biological woman, because I refuse to believe a man would identify himself as a unicorn) metaphorically explains the concept of "dysphoria." They start by saying dragons are usually cruel but can be gentle, while unicorns are usually kind but can be dangerous. The author, as a unicorn, doesn’t fit in with other unicorns and sometimes wishes to be a dragon. A brilliant analogy. Standing ovation, please. But… there’s one problem.

Men and women are not different biological species.

In that case, they should’ve made everyone either dragons or unicorns. The only differences between men and women are body size (not always), secondary sex characteristics, and primary ones (and even then, not always, but usually).

Also, this comic perfectly illustrates why gender is a social construct. Because it’s all about failing to fit in. You’re a goddamn unicorn, creator—snap out of it. Mabel from Gravity Falls is coming for you. You can do magic, you can vanish into the woods. But no, dragons are cooler… they like fly and breathe fire.

even trans celebrities are blatant, raging autogynephiles. blatantly obsessed with violence and hatred against women, admitting misogyny without shame…. he is a gross loser!

Nobody:

Males every 2 seconds: "If you as a woman have the audacity to not conform to feminine beauty standards then I should be allowed to call myself a woman too"

This is also what they imply when they insist that black women just existing should be enough evidence that any male can be a woman.

They try to phrase it in a uwu "we"re all in this together" type of way to mask it when speaking about black women but what they mean is: The punishment for women not conforming to beauty standards is that they have no right to self-determination, boundaries or distinct categories.

If you can be "ugly", I can be a woman

If you can be black, I can be a woman

If you can be fat, I can be a woman

If you can be a GNC lesbian, I can be a woman

They make it clear that if we wanted sex-based rights and the ability to say no, we should've all been white, thin, beautiful and a male fantasy. And if not, then complaining about the presence of males is audacity we haven't earned. It's not solidarity, it's putting us in our place. Insane that ppl can't peep the shade and contempt they try to mask it with flowery wording.

Because that is what the argument essentially is. Someone points out that they can tell a man is a man, and the counter argument is "but he has managed to make himself look prettier than you!!!"

And? Women are not "people who are pretty". Women are female. No matter how unattractive or unfeminine a woman is, she is still a woman because she is a female. A man can look like a walking pornofied male fantasy of a woman, and he is still a man because he is a male.

Hunter Schafer is a man, and he looks the way he does because he has had access to plastic surgery, make-up, photoshop, AND was chemically castrated as a minor.

i can’t stand it when these celebs try to gain feminism points by claiming their pornography is empowering.