Given that the person mispelled ‘mumsnet’ as ‘momsnet’ two separate times despite claiming to have been an actual user there, I’m going to assume that this is a secondhand story story passed around between terfs, one that is at best exaggerated, and at worst (and most likely) flat out bullshit. I can tell you from…

not all people with vaginas have the same experience of opression, right?

It’s basically a false dichotomy that attempts to set up “trans women” and “cis women” as two uniform, mutually-exclusive categories in order to frame our womanhood as less-than or flat-out invalid. Because “don’t tell me you’re the same as me” is really just a euphemistic way of saying “don’t try to claim that you’re…

The title should probably be “cautious politician gives cautious answer to extremely loaded, leading questions about trans politics.”

In the same way that there are ‘man-hating feminists’ who utterly loathe men, think the world would be a better place if all the men vanished, and truly hope it happens, yeah.

that is knowledge cis women will NEVER have

You came out as a woman and then get offened when other people tell you this is what it’s like to be treated as one.

Welcome to being a woman!

No, you cannot make the case you understand being a woman

Wow, I’m genuinely shocked. This is the first show dealing with trans issues in a long ass time that I have been unequivocally enjoying without any moments where my eyes just roll out of my damn head. So I was sitting here thinking it’s so good, it must be getting canceled any day now. Or, at least all the trans women…

Oh yeah that’s what I figured. I was just asking because sometimes you search around and it’s hard to find the really detailed/eye-opening stuff; the “smoking gun”, as you put it. So I figured I would just inquire about the direct path to that. But I totally get where you’re coming from, and I’ll definitely look into…

You realize the idea of “female” brain is the exact thing people like Cupp believe and the reason they think women are more suited to taking care of children at home.

Huh. I was going to make a joke about him jackin it to trans porn, but I figured that it would probably (PROBABLY) be too glib. If you have any sources for those claims, I’d be interested to see them.

Why do articles like these always line up a bunch of people born with vaginas and then ask these questions about detransitioners and desistance in a way that implies that it applies equally to those of us born with penises? Because while the article does briefly allude to the idea that transition/identifying as male…

I mean, we’re a tiny, poorly understood group of people who are currently living under an administration openly hostile to our rights and medical needs, relying on the will of voters who get their information and empathy for “others” from TV shows. I think that MAYBE taking that into account when drafting the…

Honestly I don’t think that would be a great way to write out the character. Our medical needs get stigmatized enough as it is without our own version of “dead lesbian syndrome.”

I actually did this once by accident, because I have a breast pump that I sometimes use during “fun times” (on a lower setting than required for milk expression). One time I forgot to give myself my shot for few days, and after I took it off I noticed something dripping off my left boob. Squeezed my boob and sure…

I think part of the problem too is that most of the pushback about periods and pregnancies being “women’s issues” is actually coming from GNC / nonbinary people who have periods and can get pregnant but don’t consider themselves women - as in “periods/pregnancy does not make me a woman.” And that fact seems to get…

Thanks for being honest here, because I have been *SO* confused by all of the cis feminist backlash and hand wringing with respect to the rise of GNC / nonbinary people.

Not for nothing but bizarre and demanding could have been used to describe her behavior well before this incident. This incident isn’t really any different than other interactions between members of a group where one has more relative privilege than the other and the less privileged group attempts to bring their…