I don't think it's nice to lock rapists in with female prisoners, allow mediocre males to participate in women's and girls' sport, or for women to get death and rape threats for speaking up for their rights. When you've stopped all that happening, we can talk 'nice.'
You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.
I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.
I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.
Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.
Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.
Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.
I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.
I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.
I’ll never forget the night I wrestled in front of 81 million Devil worshipers, Brother.
When I walked to the back the king of England told me I was the greatest AEW champion of all time and he knighted me on the spot.
Kangaroo kicks and Double Clotheslines. Those were the days.
-MJF
Imagine tearing a new born baby from its mother, who is in another room, bleeding, as her body, breasts and soul aches for the child. Imagine hundreds of thousands of years of instinct running through that child, the only person it knows in the world is the woman who grew him, unable to see more than the areola, darkened in preparation for his arrival, desperate for her smell, breath, heartbeat, warmth and milk. Desperate for the colostrum to feed him for the first time. Imagine causing scientifically proven lifelong neurological damage to a human being by tearing it away from its mother, so you can play house. How wonderful. How stunning and brave to put your feelings before the life of the new child you claim to care for. How nice you can just buy a child, a human being, immediately after birth. I wonder why we don't take puppies and kittens and piglets and calfs immediately away from their mothers?
The term "cisgender" was coined by a German sexologist who also stated, "The sensuality that spontaneously unfolds between a child and an adult is something wonderful."
Volkmar Sigusch first used the terms "cisgender" and "cissexual" in a 1991 publication titled Transsexuals and our Nosomorphic View.
"Speaking of cissexuals. If there are transsexuals, logically there must be cissexuals. One is not to be thought without the other at all. I have allowed myself to introduce the terms cissexualism, cissexuals, cisgender etc.," Sigusch wrote.
According to Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany, Volkmar Sigusch and his colleague Gunter Schmidt, with whom he published research on child sexuality in the 70's, also argued that exposing children to pornography – a well-known grooming tactic of pedophiles – was completely harmless.
"Volkmar Sigusch and Gunter Schmidt argued provocatively that the representation of sex, per se, did no damage to youth or children, and that the kind of pornography in which sex was 'represented without prejudices as a pleasure-filled social activity … is exactly the kind that one could without worries give to children and adolescents,'" Herzog wrote.
Don’t tell me that the alphabet squad has no connection with pedophilia. Your ideology is ROOTED in it from Sigusch to Alfred Kinsey. You can’t change your history.
This is horrifying.
It is NOT transphobic to say that biological men should not be competing against biological women in sports. Many trans people understand and agree with this.
This is so disgustingly abusive and harmful and it is encouraging acts of violence against women. These protestors cannot debate this with logic or words so they resort to bullying and violence. Cowards.
Ask yourself why the majority is trans women moving over into women’s sports and why we don’t see many trans men successfully transferring and competing against men, why doesn’t this go both ways, why are only women’s sports negatively effected?
Mental health, a way of life, living a dream are all directly related to women competing in sports, and so much more.
The knowledge that comes with training, the excitement of getting a college scholarship to go play for a team or go to the Olympics and compete on a fair stage, the ability to make money and support themselves, sponsorships, entire futures are built on women competing in sports. Even if someone doesn’t end up becoming a professional, just playing for a team in high school can be life changing.
Do not take that away from women. Do not rob young girls and women of that experience and shaming them and now PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING them when they say this is not fair.
How many more women and young girls are we going to let this happen to? How many more assaults need to happen? How many careers stumped and cheated?
It’s going to get worse if more people don’t speak out.
Young women and girls need YOU to say ENOUGH, they need your protection as a logical people to say this isn’t the way to invoke positive change.
This is not transphobia it simply means we are not there and might never be so find another way to be inclusive and loving towards trans people without it directly harming women. I hope you are ok
@Riley_Gaines_ you are not alone. 🤍
Recently I was asked the question “Why do you care?” “Just Let People Live their Lives!”
So I’m going to tell you why I care.
I have a daughter, who is the absolute light of my life.
I do not want my daughter taught, that her physical safety is less important than someone’s feelings.
Or that “being kind” is more important than honesty or fairness.
Or that her sense of self is dependent on the affirmation/approval of others.
Or that lifetime happiness can be found in altering one’s appearance.
Or that the human rights of one group of people are more important than another’s.
Or that certain types of sexual attraction can be bigoted.
Or taught actual pseudoscientific lies that fly in the very face of biology.
In short, your values are not my values.
And when you decide to leave Women and Children alone, I’ll leave you alone.
I honestly think everyone should give this a read.
WOOTTON: JK Rowling defying the cancel-mob is her crowning glory https://t.co/Ows8N30LrT via @MailOnline
Using the words ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ interchangeably obscures the central issue of this debate.
If you’re interested in what I actually said, see https://t.co/zRoACFakEn (in which I literally say ‘trans lives matter’ and ‘trans rights are human rights.’)
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I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out. Perhaps – and I’m just throwing this out there – the best way to prove your movement isn’t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing and threatening us. 8/X