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.
@divacakesng I placed an order for a cake delivery at your Agungi store yesterday for delivery today at 12pm. I didn’t get any calls for my delivery. I decided to drive down to the store of which I was trying to avoid only to see the shop closed. I’m so upset!
Subsidy removed; Tinubu is doing well
Possible privatisation of the power sector; He’s working
Godwin Emefiele’s arrest; He’s trying
Implementation of hourly wage; lets give him a chance
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This is what INEC Mahuod Yakubu and mandate stoler APC want Nigerians to accept as authentic results.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ahmed Baba Datti were entirely right in their velocity of opinion.
THEY MURDERED OUR CONSTITUTION
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I cannot begin to imagine the amount of pressure they would have subjected Senator Datti Baba Ahmed to abandon Peter Obi and his pursuit to retrieve our stolen mandate.
This tweet is to appreciate him for being firm and loyal. Thank you sir.
#protest
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"They came with their threats. They came with their money. They came with their intimidation, but I resisted all." - Prof. Nnenna Oti, The Abia State INEC Returning Officer.
She’s Brave ❤️
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Chude @chude__ have just been kidnapped by state CID in Anambra some few minutes ago.
Please Retweet Massively.
Nothing must happen to him.
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I just received these damning reciepts of me picking up dirt during clean up exercise with other well meaning Lagosians 🤣🤣.
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~ GRV.
Another Malpractice Caught from INEC. We are WATCHING with Both Eyes Open. We no dey sleep
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Dayo Israel that's currently fanning the embers of bigotry on the TL is an RCCG Pastor.
Remi Tinubu that's constantly putting Yorubas against Igbos is an RCCG Snr Pastor.
The FUTA VC that was instrumental in rigging Ekiti's election on live TV is an RCCG Pastor.
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I’m already used to threats!
I have a record of all threats I have received, I also have recorded calls and messages of Powerful politicians and their children that have ever reached out to me!!!
I always said NO!
Because as long as I still dey, There shall be NO COMPROMISE!!!
Surulere, Desmond Elliot should NEVER come back to commission pit latrines and wooden bridge. @NgLabour all the way. Our candidates is Home Olumide Oworu. We'll inflict @OfficialAPCNg
@Sirodue1 E no go better for the person wey altered these results. LP won in Mainland LG. We have results. E.g here’s my own unit…..all units around Unilag, Yama etc were-won by LP….they distrusted voting at Ebute Metta….prevented LP agents from collation centre