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can you call it dysphoria if it feels like your biological sex characteristics belong to someone else and you’re an imposter in this body but you don’t know who you are outside of this person and its body. no?
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Trans exclusionary radical feminism (TERFism), bioessentialist feminism, and blackpill feminism are not radical feminism. Allow me to explain.
"The discovery is, of course, that 'man' and 'woman' a fictions, caricatures, cultural constructs. As models they are reductive, totalitarian, inappropriate to human becoming. As roles they are static, demeaning to the female, dead-ended for male and female both. Culture as we know it legislates those fictive roles as normalcy. Deviations from sanctioned, sacred behavour are 'gender disorders,' 'criminality,' as well as 'sick,' 'disgusting,' and 'immoral.' Heterosexuality, which is properly defined as the ritualized behavior built on polar role definition, and the social institutions related to it [...] are 'human nature.'"
- Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating
radical feminism is built on women's rights activism approached from the root of systemic misogyny. radical feminism is about female liberation and women's rights - ALL females, and ALL women.
As Dworkin describes, biological sex is not definitively the dictator of gender. Because gender isn't real, gender isn't tangible; gender is a set of characteristics and roles forced upon human beings based on their biological sex characteristics.
gender abolition is a crucial part of radfeminism. recognising that gender and sex are separate concepts entirely is essential to being a radical feminist.
so, how can this coexist with transgenderism? In Woman Hating, Dworkin directly addresses homosexuality and transsexuality as deviations from the societal expectation of binary, gender-essentialist, heterosexual, "correct" behaviour. Dworkin states that these deviations, including transsexuality, are not necessarily morally wrong. She also recognized that transsexuality and homosexuality are REAL, tangible concepts, unlike gender itself.
we live in a binary world. we live in a world with rigid, strict structures for people based on their sex characteristics. the dichotomy between man and woman in our human society is the dichotomy between the oppressor and the oppressed.
but, like Dworkin acknowledges, not everyone fits into that binary, because that binary is meaningless, and that binary isn't real.
transsexuals and transgender individuals exist. that's the second fact that must be established.
it's not uncommon to see a self-proclaimed TERF online reference dworkin as a justification for their transphobia. TERFs will claim their radical feminism is somehow ... genuine radical feminism, when it is based on gender essentialism and arbitrary bigotry. Dworkin, if you actually read her works and have an ounce of media literacy, never establishes or recognized this as a form of real radical feminism.
According to Dworkin's logic, transsexual individuals can easily coexist with gender abolition. Because, at the end of the day, radical feminism still DOES take biological reality as an important factor in its activism. TERFs are just misunderstanding how biological reality exists alongside the construct of gender in the context of the real world. As I already mentioned but will reiterate here: we live in a binary, gendered world, and that fact is both inevitable and fundamental.
because of the social context we live under and have lived under for millennia, some individuals are going to internalize the concept of gender, and while gender itself isn't real, it does become an aspect of identity for some people, making it a factor in how human beings live and behave. for some people, furthermore for the majority of people without sex or gender dysphoria, the gender that was assigned to them based on their biological sex is the gender that becomes a part of their identity. these individuals, cisgender people, are then [typically] raised socially as either a girl or a boy, then a woman or a man respectively.
if gender dysphoria didn't exist, we wouldn't HAVE transgender people. but we do, and i would hope we all know that. these people, trans people, are the human beings who have an internalized connection to gender that wasn't the gender they were assigned based on their sex and subsequently raised as.
here comes the nuance: gendered people, including transgender individuals, can coexist with the abolition of a misogynistic social construct. radical feminists can and SHOULD abolish the oppressive system of a concept that isn't even real, but that does not justify discrimination against the individuals who tangible live as a gendered person, female and woman, male and man, male and woman, or female and man (and any other genders that exist culturally depending on human geography).
I am not saying that trans women live their entire lives as women, considering most trans women are male people who were assigned the boy/man gender and raised as such, but I AM saying that transgender women are women. They are simply women with different experiences. And yes, there is a lot of misogyny that has to be unlearned for people who are born as men but live as women. That does not diminish the fact that they are women, because gender is nothing more than an aspect of identity for some people, and if someone faces gender dysphoria as a boy/man-assigned male, and they have a genuine connection to the gender of woman, they are a woman, and they deserve access to the resources they need to transition socially to a woman. vice versa for trans men.
Female liberation is another fundamental aspect of radfeminism. And that means ALL female people: women, non-gendered females, and FtM/FtX transgender people. no, trans women should not be the focus of this particular aspect of radical feminism, because they are not female people. And, for the millionth time, I want to reiterate that just became a woman isn't female, doesn't mean she isn't a woman, because gender and sex are separate - one a social construct that manifesta itself as an aspect of identity, and the other a biological reality. female liberation should always be included in radfeminism, as should trans women, and the two are NOT mutually exclusive. trans women are simply a different type of women, and thereby do not necessarily have a place in ALL aspects of radical feminism, but they are still genuinely women who deserve a place in general radical feminism.
excluding trans women from radical feminism because they are not female is discrimination and discrimination is the very thing radical feminism exists to end.
for all the TERFs out there reading this - I unfortunately have to clairfy that I am not talking about what you consider to be "fake" transgender people or transsexuals. like the whole men-who-transition-solely-to-go-into-womens-bathrooms debate, those people are an extreme minority, and, frankly, the whole debate is just a bigoted scare tactic from conservatives that you somehow buy into. and before you bring up the 2/3rds of transgender women in prisons are there for sexual assault, you need to recognise that that is STILL a minority, and an incredibly obscure dynamic. furthermore, trans women are not INHERENTLY bad, nor are males in general. to imply such is to go everything radical feminism even stands for. therefore, we must treat trans women WITHOUT PREJUDICE. Just because SOME trans women are bad people does not mean you are justified in automatically deeming every trans woman a bad person before even knowing who they are.
i have to stop writing at some point, so I hope my thesis has been effectively explained here. if you have any questions please ask me, and feel free to share your own understanding of radical feminism. I am not here to be an asshole, I'm here to educate and explain radical feminism as it exists in itself, not in its stigma.
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Back when I was an undergraduate, pursuing my degree in Women’s & Gender Studies, “radical feminism” had a very different meaning.
There was liberal feminism, the “add women and stir approach,” wherein women are simply integrated into the existing political system and legislative changes eventually level the playing field. And then there was radical feminism, the notion that our political and social systems are inherently patriarchal, and that a complete overhaul of the existing institutions would be the only way to achieve true equality.
As a feminist, I fell into the latter category — I believed that, yes, the current system favors white, cisgender men, and that simple policy changes would not achieve social justice.
Of course, policy changes and women in politics are all worthy goals, but they create change at a glacial pace, and do not tackle the rampant misogyny that creates barriers for women in the first place, nor does it challenge the cultural attitudes that uphold misogyny. It does not address change on a systemic level, whereas radical feminism seeks to change the system and the culture at large. Rather than giving women a piece of the pie, radical feminism wants to bake a whole new pie.
Some radical feminism includes the abolishing of capitalism. Some includes the abolishing of patriarchal religious institutions. The bottom-line, though, was that revolutionary action was needed to address misogyny on a political, social, and cultural level.
This was my understanding of radical feminism. It was shaped by the writing of radical feminist bell hooks, who I was first introduced to in my intro course as a freshman in college. And as a transgender person, calling myself a radical feminist was never in conflict with my gender identity, because like hooks, I truly believed that feminism was for everybody — it need not conflict with our diverse and complex identities.
However, in recent months, I’ve noticed that radical feminism has taken on a whole new meaning.
Namely, radical feminism — at least the dominant subgroup calling themselves radical feminists — is gaining attention for being transphobic. They are often seen perpetuating the idea that biology is destiny, and that you can only be a woman if you are born with a vagina. Without the lived experience of being socialized as a woman, and the magical hole between yours legs that makes it official, you cannot call yourself a woman.
Whereas my transgender identity and my feminism never came into conflict previously, suddenly it seems like being a radical feminist is not compatible with being trans. However, I refuse to redefine my feminism because of a fringe group that wishes to exclude my community from their feminism.
And I’ve got news for any radical feminist who is trying to push a blatantly misogynstic and transphobic agenda — you do not speak for me.
Your notions of “radical feminism” are not the universal ideology for all feminists who call themselves radical. And certainly, your feminism does not speak to me, and does not speak for me.
And further, just to be clear: Any kind of feminism that upholds the idea that biology is an objective fact that predetermines your destiny as a human being is inherently misogynistic. Essentialism has always been used as a tool by the patriarchy, and any ideology that upholds essentialist arguments feeds into misogyny.
I am amazed at this resurfacing of essentialism within a so-called feminist community — it’s just oppression with a new coat of paint. Even though sexism itself is based on the flawed idea that our biology determines who we are, apparently we now have a variety of “feminism” that argues the same. Feminism has spent centuries denouncing the idea that sex is an objective reality, but suddenly we have a whole bunch of “feminists” who believe that sex is an undeniable fact, and the only factor that makes a woman who she is.
I shudder when I imagine a world where the only thing that defines a woman is her genitalia.
Women are more than just vaginas. Women are more than their silhouettes. Women are more than their bodies. If your feminism argues that women are women merely because of the bodies they possessed at birth, your feminism is objectifying women and reducing them to their parts.
If your feminism believes that gender is not fluid and personal, that gender is not an experience and a relationship to one’s body, your feminism is horseshit.
I’m a radical feminist, because I believe in a vision where gender is a journey, an intimately personal experience. It is an interplay between internal reality and social circumstance. Gender is a way of expressing one’s self. Gender is playful, gender is explorative, gender is radical; gender is an identity, not a prophecy based on what the medical establishment decides is a feminine or masculine body.
Because for me, a doctor’s opinion of what my genitalia says is far more arbitrary than my personal truth that I have known and experienced for years.
I belong to myself, every inch of me, and I do not consent to gender being imposed upon me. My body is mine to define. My identity is mine to declare. To say otherwise is to perpetuate the violence that happens against transgender people every single day. To say otherwise is to perpetuate the violence that happens against women every single day. To say that our bodies do not belong to us, that our identities are only for others to assign — that, my friends, is a feminist issue. Autonomy and self-determination? Those are trans issues. And since the dawn of time, those have been women’s issues, too.
And in my feminism, there is abundant room for trans women. In fact, in my feminism, trans women are the future of feminism. There’s room for all my genderqueer cuties. There’s plenty of space for intersex folks, who are existing proof that biology is not binary, biology is not clear cut, that biology is arbitrary at best and oppressive at worst. In my feminism, there is room for everyone, and there is validation that our identities are ours to proclaim.
In my feminism, my RADICAL queer feminism, gender is a deeply personal experience that we define. Because imposing our notions of biological absolutism onto another person’s body is not feminism. That is violence.
I don’t know what radical feminism is anymore, but I know what my feminism is — just like I know what my gender is. I am a boy, and I have a vagina. There are plenty more like me. And if I make you uncomfortable, you know what? I’m glad.
Original text : "I Am Transgender. I Am a Radical Feminist. And You Do Not Speak For Me." by Sam Dylan Finch
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