The problem lies with the older versions of the DSM, especially Version IV and the change of the definition of the diagnosis from Transsexualism to Gender Identity Disorder in the 90's. GID is basically a flawed diagnosis that lumps all people with “gender nonconforming behavior” - anything from being a tomboy to the…

Oh it’s definitely more complicated than that. “Hurt people hurt people” as they say, and these are people who have been through some shit. I was just trying to keep that part simple because I had already written two walls of text, and it is functionally the same as any other impasse. I’m obviously never going to…

But that was not the original purpose of the radfem concept of womanhood.

I was responding to your second comment, which seemed to be trying to parse the disconnect between the stated goals and subsequent actions taken by these people. I wasn’t attempting to put words into your mouth: just trying to say “this is the reason why it seems like nonsense.” Because the theory is a pretext for the…

Feminists of thirty years ago have spent the past 30+ years trying (and continuing to try) to ostracize and expel trans women from the very women’s spaces that offer us all a reprieve from ‘the killing and the raping.’ They might not usually be the ones swinging fists and pulling triggers, but they’re trying their…

I think maybe you’re giving them too much credit on this issue. Declaring oneself a feminist does not grant one immunity from reactionary hate and anger of people who are different. Or the extraordinary levels of rationalization that we’ll go through to avoid admitting it to ourselves. Sometimes the theory and the…

Your attitude is basically no different than that of “woke” liberal bros who think it’s okay to call Republican women every misogynistic slur in the book just because of their party affiliation.

I understand where these parents are coming from on a deeply personal level, but it seems like a bit of a pipe dream. Society obsesses over the gender/sex of a new child in a way that is almost fanatical, and that combined with the irresistibility of a “mystery” is probably only going to put a hyper focus on this…

Serena Joy is the element of this show that precludes the possibility for the other 47%. Her function for these women is something akin to the way the KKK acts as foil for liberal racism - that subconscious mentality of “so long as I am less racist than the KKK, I am not racist.”

Thanks, it means a lot!

YES. Reading from a script is the perfect way to describe it, thank you. They know what they’re *supposed* to say to satisfy the bare minimum of wokeness and once they’re done going through the motions, they’re free to go back nitpicking any and every conceivable difference possible.

Oh god, I just googled that article. What a weird, hot mess of concern trolling (as if girls/women with short hair were never mistaken for boys and/or lesbians before trans people came into the public consciousness)

Did I ever say that Caitlyn presenting as male for most of her life had zero effect on her life? No, not at all. But you’re making specific assertions about what affect that had on her life, and you really have no idea if it’s true. For all we know, being trans and assigned male at birth was a moderating experience on…

There is a massive amount of cognitive dissonance on the left, with people often reluctant to examine their own lingering prejudices because of how much of their identity and sense of self are invested in being woke and being on the right side of history. It’s even worse in feminist spaces specifically regarding trans…

But that’s not really what you said: you specifically attributed certain negative aspects of Caitlyn’s behavior to being “socialized as a man”:

Honestly as a trans woman myself, one of the most frustrating parts of Caitlyn’s transition has been watching cis feminists line up and talk about Caitlyn in generalizations and stereotypes that are either ignorant of or deliberately trying to overlook the Ivanka Trumps of the world. This idea that somehow Caitlyn’s…

I don’t disagree with you, but I also recognize that it’s what’s going to happen because too many cis feminists have absolutely zero self-awareness about their own bias when it comes to trans women. People see her ranting and treat it as carte blanche to attack the identities of all trans women and how “we don’t…

Believe me, I’m more than happy to call this bullshit out. If not for simply being dismissive towards a huge problem in the world, then at least for selfish reasons. Because unfortunately her attempts to die on this hill makes us all guilty by association in the eyes of too many people, and we already have enough…

In terms of solidarity I think it’s more important to call out someone who’s trying to turn the chip on her shoulder into an ideological battle, because this is something that ultimately affects us all since plenty of cis feminists feel fine stereotyping us all based on the behavior of one person.

People have been coming at me my entire life.