This article has been on my mind and I thought of an analogy that may actually help you understand the concept. Imagine a gathering for black people. Now imagine that it excluded anyone who was light-skinned. All your same arguments would apply - those who have been able to “pass” as white since childhood may have had…

Admittedly, I live in a city and grew up in the suburbs. I haven’t lived in rural areas. I definitely see less gender-binary today than I did growing up and I believe that my childhood had less of it than my parents’ generation. But I also don’t pretend to know that we’re progressing at the same rate everywhere.…

I’m actually saying there are ONLY social constructs for how children deemed male and female are raised. That there’s nothing inherently male or female about any of them.

This is such a terrible analogy! The closer analogy would be a Catholic women’s group that didn’t accept converts - you’re not really Catholic unless you were born a Catholic! Sorry!

I don’t see how I stretch the point beyond reality. Woman really do have all kinds of different experiences. Let me actually give some examples to clarify the point:

I was saying that probably most transwomen feel they were innately female from the start. But I don’t want to speak for all transwomen. Someone else in this thread made the point that no women were born women! Which I think is also an excellent point!

Great point!

I wouldn’t say there’s no difference between the world viewing you as a boy vs. viewing you as a girl. Of course there is. But women have all kinds of different experiences and upbringings. I think the experience of being a woman “raised as a boy” is just one diversity of experience that should be welcome at a women’s…

I can’t understand female-spaces where transwomen aren’t welcome. Guess what? Probably most transwomen were born women. “Raised as girls”? What does that even mean? I think we’re moving ever closer to a world where parents no longer enforce arbitrary rules about what boys/girls can/can’t do/wear. Thank goodness. But…

I’m not concerned about GMOs from a medical or health perspective (though I do prefer organic when affordable/available) but I am concerned about GMOs from an environmental and economic perspective. It’s not really one of my issues, so I’m open to new information and being corrected on this point, but I thought there…

This is my favorite grandma/racism anecdote:

I love that they’re keep a precise count of the books in storage that OBVIOUSLY can’t be out until he reaches the recommended age.

It's interesting because I am engaged and it felt important to me to have that commitment solidified, but I'm honestly not 100% sure why.

My favorite part of this commercial is when the girl is like “I wouldn’t work here if that were true.” UM, I DON’T KNOW YOU OR WHAT KIND OF PERSON YOU ARE! That means literally nothing to me.

Maybe I’m naive, but I think Disney would have cast an Asian Mulan anyway. I feel like part of their brand lately is diversity, adding a black princess and red-haired princess and all, something for every little girl to relate to. I think they’re self-aware enough to know that a non-Asian Mulan would look ridiculous.…

Or an avocado. Or cilantro. I feel like she’s going to learn some hard lessons here. You could have gotten so many more dry goods with that money!

I wish I knew all of the details from my own family. I know my great grandfather traveled across the desert and stowawayed on a boat. He jumped off the boat and swam to shore once the U.S. was in sight. I wish I had met him, he sounds like a great man. He owned apartments and grocery stores in the States and, during…

You know what’s even more bullshit? The U.S. also refuses to recognize it as genocide. Basically every presidential candidate says that it’s genocide when they’re campaigning and promises to recognize it as such, and then once they’re in office they back off and use euphemisms so as not to piss off Turkey.

I’m Armenian and have to admit to a soft spot for the Kardashians, which is probably mainly because we share an ethnic background. Armenians do that thing where we have a running list of all other famous Armenians (Andre Agassi, Cher, etc).

Sabra hummus is the best. But it did used to be better, I think they changed their formula. Tribe will do in a pinch, but ugh. And Trader Joe’s hummus is terrible. I know because my people are Middle Eastern.