You're the only person telling women being female reduces us to our ability to get pregnant.
No one is reducing men to their ejaculate by referring to them factually as male. Why would describing the facts about a female person be reductive? Is it reductive to call a child, a child? If I say humans have two legs, am I reducing all humans to a pair of legs?
WTF do you mean my sex "reduces" me? Explain yourself.
A woman is an adult human female. That does not mean she must be fertile, pregnant, heterosexual, feminine, able-bodied, young, or capable of childbirth.
Infertile women are women. Menopausal women are women. Women with hysterectomies are women. Women who never want children are women. Only female people can lack female fertility. Only female people can go through menopause. Only female people can have a hysterectomy.
Stating that women are female does not mean “women are wombs.” That is you expressing your misogyny. That is not what saying "women are female" means.
The point is that women are human bekngs and human beings are male and female. Female people have been oppressed as a sex class because of material realities around reproduction, embodiment, labour, and male violence.
Pretending sex does not matter is not feminism and pretending the presumably "feminine" gender identity of a man entitles him to the rights of human beings who happen to be female, is a male supremacist movement masquerading as feminism.
You telling me what I am or what I am not is not any kind of argument. It's just narcissism and patronizing sexism.
Imagine how strongly a mother will hold on to her trans beliefs after she's irreversibly transed her lesbian autistic daughter. Now imagine the same mother who has transed her autistic, gamer bedroom-bound son. Giving up the trans lie would probably also involve considering your child may have a paraphilia. These women are not going back.
Today I learned about Cathleen Quinn, who had to serve an extra 5 years in prison because she complained about a trans-identifying male inmate perving on her.
https://t.co/6GlPTHRbNa
@Tat_TvamAsi@alleria_eh@FFS_WhatNow The men who are actually doing the pissing on a pregnant woman (while they hide their faces and walk like normal among you).
Yeah that’s a big fucking problem
When JK Rowling published her first essay on trans issues in 2020, I shared it with some friends and explained that I found her analysis quite reasonable and compassionate.
One friend (also a gay man) responded angrily, leading to a debate. When I pointed out that some activists want to deny the importance of biological reality and claim that trans and actual women are fully interchangeable, he dismissed this as a "far right conspiracy theory."
We stopped talking the following year, but it didn't take long for my concerns to be validated (unfortunately). I bring this anecdote up to illustrate how ludicrous gender radicalism has become – "good "progressives would've found it implausible less than a decade ago.
JK Rowling could have used her platform to encourage millions of children to sterilise themselves, but instead she just helped them to fall in love with reading. What a nasty bigot.
We (lawyers) have been saying this repeatedly. Once you replace “sex” with “gender,” and/or allow men to identify as women, women lose ALL protections in law.
Everything we have fought for, gone in an instant. The clock is wound back a century.
We have to fight this. Worldwide. We’ve seen what happens to women in countries where women have, once again, become chattel - no schooling, no leaving the house without a male guardian, and ultimately, no speaking.
If you think it is impossible, remember: those same women had rights 20 years ago. Now they have none.