Guardian - Living in a Woman’s Body.

Offs. I just knew there would be a trans woman along eventually, in this series.
They couldn't resist invading something so powerful as this series of brilliant essays about Women, the XX kind, you know, Women.

could they.

Amazed that you got that ODFox. I saw someone who had no right whatsoever to be occupying a space for women's voices, and whose presence is depriving a woman of a space. For a lot of women, Juno's presence is a painful insult.

This series has been and is so powerful. Some of the pieces have made me thrum with a physical empathy, some with a profound sympathy.
Juno's piece gives me an intellectual understanding of her position, while at the same time knowing that the language she uses makes it clear that she understands that her claim on 'a woman's body' is fundamentally different to the authors of the other pieces in the series.
That tacit acknowledgement makes me more respecting of her than before. She always seemed so deliberately intransigent and demanding of women's space and voice before.

All I'm seeing is Buffalo Bill dancing in front of the mirror. He would love our brave new world.

I find the belief that they can 'harness and shape' their body 'as they see fit' delusional and childish. I have a life threatening illness. I would love to be able to 'harness and shape' it out of existence - but the reality is I can't. No more than Juno can become a woman.

Surely if you are “living in a woman’s body” then you are a woman. You don’t need to cut and tuck bits and pieces to become a woman

If you think that becoming a woman involves surgery, makeup, and putting on a dress then you have just taken a gender stereotype and decided that is what a woman is and missed the fact that women don’t feel like women. They know they are without having to dress a certain way to prove to themselves and the rest of the world that they are female.

I'm going to make a complaint about this. It's not OK to disrupt an important series about women's bodied experiences with a piece from a biological man.

[quote PriamFarrl]Interesting Twitter replies.

twitter.com/guardian/status/1492250335888523266?s=21[/quote]
The replies are very heartening. People see this for the insulting bullshit that it is.

Shocking that the guardian feels it's appropriate to publish this in a series which includes a woman talking about her FGM experience.

Not sure how she can simultaneously claim to understand biology and say she's living in a woman's body. Arrogant cultural appropriation again. Same old same old. I do hope people are getting more able to see this as the passive aggression it really is.