Bear with me, I’ve had a shit of a day so this might be garbled.
I reached peak trans a good few years ago now, mainly thanks to the wonderful women here but also through becoming aware of the differences between the ‘old school’ transexuals (who just wanted to approximate womanhood and largely get on with their lives) and the new cohort of Transgenders, made up (as far as I have seen) of middle aged AGPs and narcissistic millennials.
It occurred to me earlier that this latest push to actually appropriate our spaces, our sexuality, our experiences etc its likely a backlash to the fact that for the first time ever we were approaching something like equality. There was an awful twitter thread earlier (piers Morgan) where so many people were decrying feminism as man hating harpies wanting, not equality, but dominion over men.
I’m convinced now that this whole travesty is simply a push back. We’ve taken too much, we’re dangerously close to mattering, so the men are taking it all back. The women who complain about this are dismissed as vile hateful TERFs because how fucking dare we moan about the men taking back what was theirs all along.
I’m starting to feel that we’re fucked no matter what we do. I’m still fighting because this is the hill I will die on but it’s fucking relentless.