Seriously? Trans activism seems to require the whole history of patriarchy and the concept of male privilege to be just tossed away as if it was meaningless. Take a guess why men aren’t threatened by someone AFAB transitioning and using the same bathrooms they use. It might have something to do with how males…

Uh, no. She is saying if trans women had lived their entire lives as women and experienced the looming fear of male violence women live with on a day to day basis, they would understand why some women have concerns about male bodied people being let in to what were formerly female bodied people only “safe spaces”.

In the UK, out of 125 transgender prisoners, 60 were had been convicted of one or more sexual offense. In the UK 19% of all inmates had been convicted of a sexual offense. The BBC article lists the types of sexual offenses those 60 inmates had been convicted of if you want to take a look. Though the BBC article does…

Why separate Jewish and non-white feminists from nazis? Is that seriously what you are asking?

That’s cool how she is calling some feminists of color basically self hating and marginalizing their voices. Who knew someone like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is actually a white supremacist? That tweet is definitely the work of an ally of WoC who cares deeply about their opinions and lived experience.

In of how their thinking mirrors one another, it can be remarkably difficult to distinguish between the talking points of the libertarian right and the language of third wave feminists on issues like trans rights, prostitution, pornography, etc. Does that make that type of individualist feminism the baddies too?

The fact some percentage of women don’t have a uterus or are infertile for other reasons doesn’t negate the claim that women in general have a greater understanding of the need for choice as public policy and will suffer the most when reproductive rights are rolled back. It’s a bit strange that in order to support…

I don’t know if there is any systemic study. Considering how relatively few transwomen there are compared to natal women it’s unlikely transwomen are taking over the world. But there are plenty of anecdotes. For example, transwomen being given positions which were initially designed to advocate for women. Like Lily…

Libertarians who hate poor people, want to destroy the welfare state, want to tie voting to property ownership and other terrible right wing things also believe pornography is totally cool, people should be allowed to be a prostitute if they want, and anyone can identify as anything they like as long as it doesn’t…

Hey now, Joe Biden understands poor people “abuse” the bankruptcy system by partying it up buying things like medical care and food then laughing all the way to bankruptcy court at how they got away with screwing humble, naive banks. That’s why he Pragmatically and very Adult like worked hard with republicans to pass…

What is it about republicans and complaining about people talk too much about what the party does? Racism, hurting poor people, destroying the environment, hurting workers, hurting consumers, the list goes on. Are you saying if the Democratic party stopped saying anything about it republicans will stop doing it?

It’s kind of not the point at all because absolutely no one is making that argument. Because it would be obviously stupid.

Do you think “sex testing” and concerns about differences in sexual development giving some athletes competing in the “female” category in athletics were just invented to take down Semenya?

This type of “sex testing” originated due to concerns with eastern bloc athletes in the 60s. Who were all white. The first woman prevented from competing with other women due to a chromosome test was a white Spanish hurdler. The connection to race is only due to the fact in developed countries the conditions at issue…

They probably know it. And they probably know the history of “sex testing” in athletes was historically centered on white athletes from developed countries when the current medical intervention was not as widely available so these types of conditions would still show up among adult athletes in the “global north”.

“I guess it should not be surprising that attempts to scientifically or empirically define the physiological limits of a social construct have led to this absurd situation.”

She isn’t Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt because she is competing in the “female” category of her events. That is the “restricted” category. Phelps and Bolt competed in the “open” category. I’m not getting why people are seem to be purposefully ignoring the reason for why we have male and female categories for athletic…

The womens’ 800m world record was run by a Czech athlete in 1983 who was presumed to have been heavily doping. Like a lot of eastern bloc athletes of that era. Semenya’s inability to break that record isn’t proof the advantage she gains from her condition are minor. When Semenya did previously run with her…

And if she wants to run in the “male” category then her “built in chemical performance enhancer” is a non-issue. Because the male category is the “open”, “unrestricted” category. The problem is she wants to run in the female category which comes with certain restrictions beyond just how one chooses to self-identify.…

The people here arguing against the Cas ruling are mixing together gender and sex in order to make Cas look unreasonable. Because many commentators in the media are using words like “woman” and “female” interchangeably, I don’t entirely blame someone who thinks the two concepts are essentially the same thing and both…