Something (some) trans women don’t seem to understand is that when you’re female it affects your entire life. You can never escape it or forget it, because the world won’t let you. We live in a male-as-default society, a paradigm that stretches across the entire globe and has been upheld for all of recorded human history.
Trans men and cis women have a lot in common with each other that neither have in common with you. That isn’t your fault, obviously, but when you act like solidarity between trans men and cis women is collusion against you and your very identity as a woman, it makes it seem like you view womanhood as a fun girl’s club you aren’t being included in. At best, anyway. At worst, it looks like you actively oppose female solidarity, which… is only just barely distinct from actively opposing feminism.
Trans men shouldn’t have to hold your hand when they talk about the oppression they face for being female. They shouldn’t have to think about your feelings when they complain about periods or pregnancy or menopause. They shouldn’t have to worry they’re ostracizing you when they talk about their own childhoods as female children.
Grow a fucking spine! It’s not about you! It’s their lives, their bodies, and their experiences; they have just as much of a right to talk about it, freely, as anyone. If YOU feel envious, or angry, or uncomfortable about it, that’s a YOU problem. I have sympathy for you, I do, but you have to stop making it trans men’s problem. It’s not their fault you feel this way. It has nothing to do with them.
snowghoul
romaincrisis
2087
