I say crazy stuff that may trigger you. We are all on the journey of The Hero With a Thousand Faces. I am a Spiritual Anarchist. Always keep an open mind. Ziggy
You ever have so many things stuck in your head and nowhere to put them and no one to talk about them with. You know that every single person you try and talk about them with will never get the full picture because they do not have your existential frame of reference. I could
When I turned around and found three different men in the women’s locker room with me while I was naked on four separate occasions in just two weeks I was forced to confront a painful reality.
Not only has our government failed women, but we as women have failed one another by remaining silent.
No one is coming to save us. We must save ourselves.
It’s time for women to unite in truth, stand together, and advocate for the rights, privacy, safety, and dignity of women and girls.
The cost of doing nothing is too high. If we refuse to speak up, the next generation will inherit the consequences. Young girls are depending on us to protect what generations of women fought to secure.
The time to stand together is now.
Thwse are common misrepresentations of the GC/TERF position:
Misrepresentation: “GC feminists think women must be feminine.”
Actual GC Position: GC feminism rejects femininity as a requirement of womanhood. A woman is female whether or not she conforms to feminine stereotypes.
Misrepresentation: “GC feminists hate trans people.”
Actual GC Position: The position is about defending sex-based language, law, safeguarding, and feminism, not trans people. Disagreement with gender-identity doctrine is not hatred of individuals.
Misrepresentation: “GC feminists want to police bathrooms by appearance.”
Actual GC Position: The sex-based rights of women protect gender-nonconforming women from harrassment. Female-only means female-only, not performatively-feminine only.
Misrepresentation: “GC feminists erase intersex people.”
Actual GC Position: GC feminists argue that DSDs are real medical variations within sex development, not proof that sex is imaginary or self-definable.
Misrepresentation: “GC feminists reduce women to reproduction.”
Actual GC Position: No. The claim is not that women exist to reproduce. The claim is that women are oppressed because of the material reality of female embodiment versus the material reality of male embodiement, and the sexist assumptions and stereotypes constructed around the material reality of human sexual dimorphism.
Misrepresentation: “GC feminists deny trans people exist.”
Actual GC Position: GC feminists deny that gender identity changes sex. A person can identify as transgender or gender nonconforming without requiring sex categories be rewritten around their gender identity because sex and gender are different. When people equate gender identity and sex, they are being gender essentialist and sexist.
Misrepresentation: “GC feminists are conservative.”
Actual GC Position: Not necessarily. The position is rooted in materialist feminism, free speech, safeguarding, bodily autonomy, and opposition to sex stereotypes.
Materialism and free expression are not “right-wing.” They are historically central to left-wing politics:
- materialism analyzes power and social constructionism through real, material conditions rather than ideology or mysticism, and
- free expression is necessary to counter fascism and populism ecause dissenting movements cannot challenge power without the right to name reality, argue openly, and criticize institutions.
Gender-critical feminism is not a conservative backlash against progress. It is a continuation of left-wing principles: material analysis, opposition to stereotyping, defence of women’s sex-based rights, freedom of conscience, and resistance to institutional propaganda and language controls.
That does not mean every GC person is left-wing, or that the left has always been consistent on free speech.
But materialism, anti-essentialism, free inquiry, and dissent against institutional orthodoxy are all historically compatible with the left, and arguably foundational to the left.
4. Female oppression is sex-based
Women are oppressed as a sex class. Patriarchy is not aimed at an inner identity called “womanhood.” Women are not discriminated against on the basis of their pronouns or fashion. Discrimination against wome and girls is organized around female embodiment: reproduction, pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation, female socialization, physical vulnerability, economic dependency, sexual exploitation, and male violence.
This is why sex matters in feminism. If the word “woman” is detached from female human beings, feminism loses the ability to name the class of people historically and materially subordinated under a male supremacist system.
5. Single-sex spaces and services are sometimes necessary
Gender-critical feminists do not argue that every space must be segregated by sex. They argue that sex matters in specific contexts where privacy, dignity, safeguarding, trauma, bodily vulnerability, or fairness are at stake.
Examples include prisons, rape crisis services, domestic violence shelters, changing rooms, intimate care, hospital wards, and female sports.
The argument is not that every male person is dangerous. The argument is that male-pattern violence, male physical advantage, and the privacy needs of female people are real enough that female-only provisions must remain lawful, meaningful, and enforceable.
A right to single-sex provision is not a right to harass anyone. It is not a femininity test. Masculine women, butch lesbians, and gender-nonconforming female people belong in female spaces. The category is sex, not appearance.
6. Sexual orientation is sex-based
Gender-critical feminists argue that homosexuality is same-sex attraction, not same-gender-identity attraction.
Lesbians are female people attracted to female people. Gay men are male people attracted to male people. Bisexual people are attracted to both sexes.
No one is entitled to another person’s attraction, validation, language, or sexual boundaries. Recognizing sex-based attraction is not hatred. It is basic respect for sexual orientation and consent.
7. Trans people have rights, but not the right to override sex-based rights
Gender-critical feminism does not require cruelty toward trans-identified people. It does not require denying housing, employment, medical care, ordinary public participation, or protection from violence.
The disagreement is narrower and more specific: gender identity should not override sex where sex is materially relevant.
The core objection is to compelled belief, compelled language, sex-category replacement, and policies that remove female-only boundaries without honest democratic debate.
8. DSDs do not erase the sex binary
People with differences of sex development deserve dignity, privacy, and accurate medical care. They should not be used as rhetorical loopholes.
DSDs are variations or disorders of sex development. They may complicate classification in rare individual cases, but they do not create a third reproductive sex or make male and female meaningless.
Ambiguity at the margins does not destroy the categories. It presupposes the categories exist in the first place.
The Gender-Critical or "TERF" Position is a materialist analysis of sex, gender, and women’s rights. It is not a theory of hatred toward trans-identified people. It is a claim about the importance of sex as a real, human, and materially significant category in law, language, medicine, safeguarding, sport, and feminism.
Trans activists often misrepresent the views of GC feminists, sex realists and TERFs becaue honesty would cause them to lose the argument.
The following is an attempt to represent my position as a gender critical, sex realist and radical feminist precisely so it is easier to see when that view is being intentionally misrepresented and/or understood by bad faith representatives of trans activism.
I know my own position better than anyone. Bad faith is presuming to tell me what my own position is in order to discredit me. That's worse than a strawman, and the main tactic of gender essentialist activism.
Here is my actual position: the only position I need to defend:
1. Sex is real and materially significant
Sex in human beings is not an identity, a feeling, a role, or a personality type. It is a reproductive and developmental category: male and female are the two human sex classes that are the means of human reproduction. Male is the sex class organized around the development of small, mobile gametes and female is the sex class organized around the development of large, immobile gametes.
This does not mean every person is fertile, typical, or currently capable of reproduction. Infertility, menopause, hysterectomy, castration, DSDs, injury, age, or illness do not erase sex. Sex is not a human performance and there is no standard for sex beyond teproductive role. Sex is a human condition and an innate, immutable attribute of the human body.
Gender-critical feminists reject the idea that sex is “assigned at birth” in the sense of being invented, guessed, or arbitrarily imposed by authority. In ordinary cases, sex is observed and recorded. Even in rare, extraordinary cases with ambiguous secondary sex characteristics, with modern instrumentation, the primary atrribute of sex is observable at the definitive level beyond the crude level of external genitalia at the cellular level.
2. Women are female human beings
In this framework, “woman” means an adult human female. “Girl” means a juvenile human female.
This definition does not depend on femininity, beauty, clothing, sexual behaviour, reproductive capacity, compliance, heterosexuality, or conformity to stereotypes. A woman can be masculine, feminine, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, celibate, infertile, disabled, old, young, gender-nonconforming, or medically atypical. She remains a woman because she is female.
The position is therefore not that women must look, act, dress, think, or feel a certain way. It is the opposite: women should be free from the sex-based stereotypes traditionally imposed on female people.
3. Gender is not sex
Radical feminism distinguishes sex from gender.
Sex refers to the embodied, biological male/female distinction.
Gender refers to the social roles, stereotypes, expectations, behaviours, and hierarchies imposed on people because of sex.
Gender-critical feminism does not seek to preserve gender roles. It seeks to abolish their coercive power.
A feminine male does not become female. A masculine female does not become male. No one should have to change sex category, medically alter their body, or adopt a new identity to be allowed to reject sexist expectations.
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I don’t frame it as rights lost “because of trans people.” That is your framing.
The issue is rights and protections weakened by policies that replace sex with gender identity.
Women have a right to name themselves as a sex class. Women have a right to female-only spaces where privacy, dignity, trauma, or safety matter. Women and girls have a right to fair female sport. Lesbians have a right to define their orientation as same-sex attraction. People have a right to speak truthfully about sex without being threatened, punished, or smeared as hateful.
Those rights do not have to be completely destroyed before women are allowed to object to them being redefined, narrowed, or made unenforceable.
Trans people can have ordinary civil rights without everyone else being required to pretend sex is irrelevant.
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Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank was not playing around. His detectives seized the testosterone vials this morning. We've obtained these images. A key question will be whether they belong to a teacher or student.
Do you ever get the feeling that it’s all wrong? traffic, malls, smartphones, 9-5, stacked living, debt, guns anything that isn’t streams, fields, trees, fresh produce, quiet, slow living, and real community. Does it ever hit you in the gut that we’ve messed it all up?
@MariaEyre1873 They really want everyone to be living in a van down by the river being economic nomads. But economies change, businesses change. You can't depend on anything these days. Family is about the only stability if you are lucky enough.
There's no safety net, no loyalty anymore.
There are still people who get excited to show you a cool rock they found, a strangely shaped cloud, a tiny frog, a pretty leaf, or a sky full of stars. That’s the kind of energy I want around me for the rest of my life.