Not sure about this

I have no idea what they are trying to say. "decoupling pregnancy from feminity" ??? I've been pregnant and am (obviously) female, but I've never in my life considered myself to be feminine.

It's a load of cis-bollocks.

Pregnancy isn't feminine it bloody and painful and risky.

Pregnancy should make all woman realise they need to be feminists, it's the very act that demonstrates the impact of our sex on choice, career, security, bodily autonomy and our body.

I would have assumed by 'femininity' they mean cultural femininity, but I think they have mistakenly or dishonestly conflated it with 'being female'. I know in medical language 'feminine' can mean 'pertaining to the female body' but I think they should have clarified.

Any woman should be able to refuse motherhood for whatever reason they want.
It has nothing to do with 'being a woman' or 'being feminine'. They seem not to really know what they mean, or realise that feminists have been saying this for donkeys' years.

I would say you are having a moment of clarity and having your eyes opened.

It happened to me too..

It's a load of assertions without any argument for a start. And it's the wrong way around as others have said. It encapsulates what the problem is with expressing anything meaningful on Twitter.

It reads like something that’s designed to make you feel discombobulated.

This thread is a good start OP.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me?page=35

It seems to imply that I couldn't, for example, refused motherhood if I was feminine without refusing my womanhood

Which is a whole lot of word salad that means fuck all

well, it’s pure bollocks isn’t it?

maybe your soul has finally rebelled against the absolute hailstorm of moronic bollocks you’ve been subjected to as a “trans ally.”

anyway, “mother” has never been part of the definition of “woman”. “Woman” is part of the definition of “mother.” This person needs to shut up and study Venn Diagrams intensely for several years until they’ve grasped the concept.

In other words, they are not trying to decouple femininity from pregnancy. They are trying to decouple pregnancy from womanhood.

Because it’s backwards. Womanhood is decoupled from femininity, but pregnancy isn’t about femininity, it’s about womanhood. Yet it is a facet of womanhood, not the whole shebang. Women who can’t become pregnant are women. Women who aren’t feminine are women. There are no women who aren’t female.

Or we could all stop tying ourselves up in knots, assigning labels of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ and accept that biological women should be able to live as they see fit and biological males should be able to do the same. No one needs to be categorised into abstract boxes.