Why I am trans-critical
A woman is not something a man can become.
A woman is not something a man can become.
A woman is NOT something a man can become.
Being a woman is having a vagina. Being a woman is menstruating. Being a woman- and I’m talking biologically, here - is having a uterus and ovaries.
Being “female” on the other hand is something different.
But men cannot, should not and will not ever be women.
You know what?
Fuck this.
This is a disgusting view to have and it defines womanhood in a really restrictive way, so restrictive that it doesn’t even include a large portion of cis women. I am not a woman because I have ovaries. I am not a woman because of my period. I am not a woman because I have a womb.
None of those things MAKE me or YOU a woman. After all, I don’t even know that I have those things. I mean, I probably do, but I’ve never had pictures taken of them.
Do you have ultrasounds of your ovaries and uterus hanging on your walls? Are you THAT obsessed with how your body defines you?
I am a woman because that is what I am and that is how I feel. My womanhood is defined by who I am not by the fact that I bleed every three months and could carry a fetus inside my body if I allowed it to.
This kind of feminism is harmful and disgusting. This kind of feminism allows violence against trans people, and trans women especially, to flourish.
You should be ashamed. Come collect your person, feminists.
Love,
Rabble
Question for i-am-radscum:
My mother doesn’t have a uterus, nor does she menstruate. Does this mean she’s no longer a woman? I mean, she doesn’t have a penis either, so is she some sort of sexual freak?
My nan actually doesn’t have ovaries nor does she have a uterus, and she hasn’t mentrated in years. Again, does this mean she’s not a woman? And, again, she doesn’t have a penis.. So, what does that make her?
Now, I have a vagina and a uterus and ovaries. Catch? I don’t menstrate. Soooo, what exactly does that make me? Or are you able to have some but not all? I’m actually really interested in the answers to these questions, because based off of them, myself and a good portion of the women in my family aren’t actually women.
All of those things aside, your definition of what a “woman” is, is not only outdated and archaic, but excludes many women at different stages of their reproductive lives. Being a woman or a man is not determined by what’s between your legs, if you bleed every month (which doesn’t even happen for many mentrating persons) if you have testicles or not, etc. That’s sex, honey. Your sex is determined by those things, not your gender. And if you want to start making logical arguments about gender you need to stop equating gender with sex, like, right now. Gender is so much more than what you present as physically; it’s how you feel as a person. You don’t get to decide for other people how they feel about themselves.
Not only that, you but you have definitely got to get this idea of “womanhood equals vagina and baby-making skills” out of your head. Stop that shit right the fuck now.
Other than that, you’re not so much “trans critical” as you are “gender policing douche waffle.”
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“Trans-critical” ideology presupposes that which it attempts to prove. The idea that transness is sexist only makes sense working from a framework which posits that transness is about embracing gender stereotypes before it does any work.
