katana

made an alignment chart for lesbian fashion, feel free to tag yourself with what you usually wear

Okay well first off you have to realize that gender is not something you can identify as or with; it is placed on you by society. My sex is female and society says that because I am female I must be placed in inferior caste of ‘woman’. I do not “identify” with gender (no one does). You can identify with stereotypes but that changes nothing. I thought it was chill in the beginning as well (saying you’re ‘cis’ so as to not other trans people or call yourself normal because it’s rude) but I grew out of it like every other radfem.

We’re discussing facts not feelings here. Sorry that offends you.

Gender is imposed on you by society. We’ve never said that people choose gender. People can choose to transition/be pressured into it but that is not the same. Trans women are male and feminism is for females so no, they don’t belong.

What we do know and say is that socialization based on gender (which is imposed) can affect people differently but certain things cannot change about that process even if you transition.

We know trans women already have their own space and movement.

Trans women suffer DISCRIMINATION because they are trans.

Women suffer OPRESSION because we are women (and that is defined by our genitals, aka vaginas).

Those are totally different problematics even if you can find some things in common (i.e prostitution).

Now that I'm talking about gender and how it conditions people I'll take a moment to say: THAT'S WHY WE NEED GENDER ABOLITION, so we can develop our personalities and identity in peace without tagging and naming every stereotype we create when we feel like we don't fit in a "gender box".

Getting back to the question: trans women have a different reality, they don't live the same as us, they will never understand what it's like to be a woman and you know what? That's okay! I just can't understand why people take it like an offensive thing, you support diversity but you can't accept the fact that a trans woman it's not the same as a woman? They're not less of a human for that, come on, and we have to stand so many people saying we have a hateful speech??? Really???

That’s a hard question, and the answer from me is: I don’t know. However, I do highly HIGHLY doubt that biology makes males more violent. Seems like such a cop-out.