Transwomen are men - only men can become transwomen, no woman can become a transwoman.
Human beings can't change sex.
Men who claim they are now women are not, because it's impossible.
They can say they are women till the cows come home, but constantly repeating an impossibility doesn't make it true.
What they look like does not change what they are. I'm too polite to ever ridicule anybody for how they look, but that doesn't mean that I can't note objectively that transpeople who have obviously put a lot of effort into looking like their preferred sex are often instantly recognisable as belonging to the sex they were born with.
the hypervigilance, stress, prejudice and ever-present threat of violence is awful.
I'm glad you brought that up. Keeping transpeople in a constant state of hypervigilance about threats of things that very rarely happen is difficult to justify.
Transpeople are not under constant threat of violence, so why tell them they are? Why hold Trans Days of Remembrance in countries where there has never been a transphobic murder? Why this ramping up of hypervigilance without evidence to back it up?
Why this claim of being marginalised and oppressed, when in fact the tiny number transpeople in society have a disproportionate presence in the media and influence in politics?
Why these constant OTT accusations of hate, toxicity, 'literal violence' against even the most respectfully-expressed GC opinion?
What is the function of all this manufactured hypervigilance, and who is most affected by it, I wonder.
I'm sure many? most? transpeople are sussed enough to know that they are not under a raised threat of violence, they are far from being marginalised, they are very present in the media, and their human rights are protected by equality legislation.
But there must be others who have a feeling of fear and desperation because of this atmosphere of ramped-up hypervigilance - could this be why some trans activists turn to aggression and even violence?
If you're [one is] being told that you are threatened with 'literal genocide' just because people don't believe that humans can change sex, I suppose that could make you think you are justified in smashing windows or punching TERFs or threatening them with rape or gruesome deaths.