Preach
YESSSSS
I love this.
I don’t. Why?
They will. Possibly within her lifetime.
It is only a matter of time. Only the rebelliousness and poverty of the majority of transsexuals is slowing it down.
It is prideful to think that this argument will not be trampled by the march of human science, and simply foolish to think either that said science will do nothing that is far more horrible or far more glorious than this.
And if we cannot deal with the world of rising power and madness, while maintaining our principles and our humanity? Then we (at best) become relics like the Sentinelese, and at worst are thrown to the wolves.
(If we can deal with it, then we have a world to win.)
Also, people who by these criteria are not women include anyone who doesn’t get pregnant (radfems: think “many lesbians”, religious people: think “nuns”), people who don’t undergo severe mental changes during their menustral cycles (I wouldn’t describe any of my gender/ASAB-related experiences as “hormonal insanity”, and I doubt I’m alone in this), and people who die before hitting menopause. (I would mention “pre-pubescent people” but they are arguably actually not women.)
And trans people generally take hormones? Which, when taking effect, probably causes “mood fluctuations” comparable if not more severe than having a menustral cycle causes.
Note: Desiree is not offended. She’s “offended.”
Desiree is also offensive and I’m offended by her but still!
Also, that list reads more like “things we need to liberate AFABs from”, not “things we need to impose on trans women as well”
also,
- hot flashes and breast tenderness are already a thing which happens from patching the endocrine system and nuking the old hormones
- mood fluctuations can happen but many people use a stable regimen which doesn’t cause them, while others imitate a menstrual cycle with progesterone; the fluctuations when starting treatment may be entirely just positive
- post-surgical pain and bleeding is a kind of “honorary menstruation” for some who do have downstairs operations
And cis women who have been born without uteruses (or who have undergone a hysterectomy) are also without many of those
And I could make a similar list about shitty things that make one a “real man” and conclude that Caitlyn definitely isn’t one of those either
Let’s see… unwanted erections all over the place, a sex drive that feels like an agonizing compulsion instead of a source of joy, inability to think clearly when subjected to sexual stimulus or a status contest, the pain and discomfort of suffering physically in hard and demeaning jobs, the stoic necessity of killing one’s vulnerability to not have people descend upon it like a pack of vultures, the gutwrenching feeling when one realizes that others have seen you as a threat and gotten creeped out or worse and one knows that the only thing one can do is to let it be because trying to correct the misunderstanding would just be worse, all the myriad pains related to external gonads etc.
(and if you’re a cis man and you say you don’t experience some of the above, well, that’s exactly my point)
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