re: why trans women want to be called "biologically female"
two things:
1. autogynephilia and related transvestic fetishes relegate the female to subordinate status, thus marking it as a form of masochism. masochistic does not mean submissive, benign or non-predatory; it means they get off on humiliating and/or hurting themselves...especially nonconsensually.
2. forcing unbelieving women into playing along with this fetish while they openly engage in public acts of exposure & voyeurism, both forms of sexual humiliation, is the entire goddamned point.
the object of their attraction is women's DISGUST. analyze everything with this in mind and their seemingly disorganized and nonsensical rhetoric snaps into clarity.
they're not coming at this from the perspective of an oppressed minority in dire need of civil rights. these are not "trans women" as history knows them. they are not effeminate gay men trying to get by. they are misappropriating the image of the classic transsexual to further their own ends. trying to analyze their behavior according to this template inevitably results in crazy-making.
they refuse gender neutral restrooms, third gender sports teams and trans-only prisons because the point of their movement is not to abolish gender minorities' bathroom leash, earn the right to participate in sports and ensure their human rights while incarcerated. none of these people are poor enough to face incarceration for anything but getting caught with child pornography.
they can't allow for "biological female" as a class to exist without themselves as a part of it, because this would shred the obfuscation as to who really has privilege over who, here.
this is why they insist they're a marginalized subset of bio woman--if they were a marginalized subset of males, they could not accuse us of "cis privilege" when we reject their bullshit. their MALE privilege would be made obvious.
forget about "trans rights" in relation to literally any talking point espoused by big guns filthy rich Susan Stryker autogynephiles & their sycophants.
the point of their movement is to sexually humiliate themselves around women who cannot escape.
and they are BIG BIG MAD women aren't letting them have it
I think these observations are really interesting. I have to admit I myself have not looked too deeply into the theory of autogynephilia. From my experience I wouldn't say the vast majority of TIMs are autogynephilic, while I obviously don't know their internal lives, left of center politics or autism appear to play a bigger role. But then again transgender identity is very linked with escapism and TIMs often have many escapism-based fetishes (mostly pet play, but I'd also say free use, incest and dom/sub are based around escapism) so what do I know.
That being said, I can totally see people astroturfing the trans movement being autogynephilies. It makes sense why they'd put so much energy into shutting down women instead of protecting and improving lives for their community. If this is the case then obviously fetishists will influence the culture in the community and the conversations being had, so it causes other TIMs to be their flying monkeys and probably influences some of them to develop a myriad of fetishes as well. In the end a TIM who doesn't get off on it gets postmodernismed into believing he is truly female and saying otherwise is genocide.
I never thought of it that way, so thank you for your imput anon. The community and it's many issues are very complex, but it's worth looking into if you spend any amount of time talking about the trans movement or interacting with trans people.
