Your answer to my comment had a lot in common with TWAW-it is very faith based.
I think this is a great example of the TRA practice of appropriating terminology and arguments from our side of the debate, and transplanting them into their own version of arguments. Where they simply don’t work at all.
There was absolutely nothing “faith based” in what Eresh said; it was pure objective, rational reason.
This idea that sex is a spectrum and someone can be somewhere along the line rather than on one of the only two points available is absolute nonsense. Sex refers to one’s reproductive capacity, the health and functionality of that reproductive capacity notwithstanding. That’s literally all it means.
Humans, like other mammals, fall into the class thar can produce ova, or the class that can produce sperm - regardless of whether they actually produce any at all. There are no humans that produce speggs or overm or any other ridiculous fantasy notion. There is no third sex. It is a binary. You cannot be more woman than man, you’re either a woman or a man.
And if you’re a man who’s modified his body with surgery and/or hormones so that it more closely resembles that of a woman, well, that’s exactly what you are. A man with bodily modifications, in an attempt to approximate a woman.
It is so profoundly insulting to women to say that our reality is so nebulous and indefinable that a man approximating it in this way actually is indistinguishable from us.
And of course the reality is that the vast majority of males who identify as women don’t actually have surgery at all, or if they do it’s just breast implants or “facial feminisation”. A good number don’t even bother with hormone treatment.
And can we set the record straight about the idea that all these poor men are living in great distress with acute, crippling gender dysphoria? No. They’re not. In fact it’s considered deeply transphobic these days to say that having GD is a prerequisite for being trans. Now it’s all about the “gender identity”: a conveniently indefinable, unpin-downable supposed internal “knowing” that you are a woman or a man absolutely independently of your biological sex, your sexed body.
Many of the biologically male people who claim to be trans nowadays don’t have any gender dysphoria at all and are perfectly happy with their perfectly male bodies. Their “gender identity” is all they need to claim thar they’re women. They are happy to parade around half naked in spaces for vulnerable women, showing off the unmistakably male, unmistakably aroused bulge in their underwear. Or their penis itself, in some well documented situations.
Not that I think a man with gender dysphoria is actually a woman either, but for the love of all that’s holy can we stop with the “such painful decisions, such a painful, difficult journey” narrative when it’s just not relevant to so many of the biologically male people who claim a trans identity these days. There’s nothing painful about being enabled to live out your fantasy in public while shitting all over the rights and boundaries of the sex class which actually is more vulnerable.
Male entitlement is not something that any woman who calls herself a feminist should be glorifying, glamorising or promoting.