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I call boleshit. Transwomen aren’t wresting tiny slices of personal autonomy - unless males colonizing female spaces, bullying women, using children as guinea pigs for ideology, punching old women in the face, gloating over the closure of rape crisis centres, embracing capitalism/big Pharma, forcing lesbians to accept/center the phallus in their relationships or be labeled bigots, rewriting gay and lesbian history, controlling language at the expense of women’s visibility and thus safety- like forcing institutions to replace “ pregnant women” with “pregnant persons”, erasing effeminate gays and butch lesbians through puberty blockers, attacking and silencing dissidents, promoting the idea of pink souls, threatening feminists and lesbians with sexualized violence like making them “choke on their lady dicks” ( a widespread and widely accepted expression in trans milieus) and generally accepting that too many of them behave like the shock troops of the patriarchy constitutes such a thing. The whole tension between TERFS and trans activists to my mind simply boils down to the mantra that “transwomen are literally women”.

Allowing meaningful and open debate around this question/claim would go a long way toward relieving some of that tension...Transwomen might be surprised how many TERFS would “get it” if they were allowed the space and time to consider the arguments. A lot of transactivists have to get off their high horse and stop the bullying and policing of social debate around one of the most difficult to grasp concepts ever put forward. Everyone needs to understand and debate the claims being made. I truly believe that both sides have much to learn. What is the science behind this claim? What aspect of trans addresses liberation from gender norms and expectations? Why are children being given puberty blockers which are irreversible- again what is the science and radical appraisal of that extreme intervention? Etc...