[ ID: A set of tweets from the user Siobhan O'Leary that read as such:
There’s a whole-ass psychodrama to unpack the misapprehension of vaginoplasty being amputation, how it’s framed as a loss rather than acquisition.
Like I’ll be real with you: 99% of what makes cissexism ao draining to deal with is the abrupt demand from cis folk that I unpack their tangled Freudian psyche simply because my existence upsets them.
The bare bone facts of a vaginoplasty is that very little is actually discarded—that’s what made it a relatively easy procedure to invent and refine. So why, without knowing that, is a vulva and vagina framed as a loss, next to a penis and testes?
Rhetorical question, of course. I know why. The mythologizing of vaginoplasties is such a transparent reproduction of the menstrual taboo and it’s a wonder more feminists haven’t connected the dots.
Added analysis: If the property that makes trans women’s bodies supposedly aberrant in the minds of transphobes is her penis, especially as it is attached to a feminine body, then the transphobe must compose a post-hoc excuse maintain his hatred for those with vulvae.
Thus vaginoplasty becomes shrouded in impossible and and even biologically impossible mythologies. The trick is that these mythologies are literal carbon copies of what supposedly makes cis women’s genitalia disgusting.
This was the logic behind coining the term transmisogyny—you can’t create an excuse to hate a trans woman with a vulva without pulling all that crap that’s been thrown by cis women by patriarchs since the dawn of history.
“It stinks!” Uh, yeah, that’s what pussies do. “It’s disgusting! Filth!” I’ve heard the same of menstruation. “Bleeding wound!” Huh, I think I’ve read this script before. Oh yeah. It’s jist misogyny. Scratch a transphobe and a misogynist bleeds.
Trans women who’ve undergone vaginoplasty dilate because her pelvic muscles in their resting do not accommodate a vagina. This is no different from a cis woman with vaginismus, who may also dilate. This is why dilators were invented, in fact.
But “muscle exercises” sounds a lot less scary than “gaping wound,” so the transphobe obscures the nature of vaginoplasty to further what is, essentially, the menstrual taboo in a different wrapper: The post-hoc excuse for disgust that was there before facts were gathered. End ID. ]