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How do you feel about all of the threads on here that are vile about trans issues (basically all of them)?
Rather a shitsty innit? I mean I could marginally accept 'fear' if there wasn't the constant hammering on misgendering someone like me, insisting others are pedophiles or predators purely for being trans, that we should be allowed to remove a persons' identity but ONLY if they're trans if they're criminals, etcetera.
Do you think it’s fair that if the same abuse was aimed at e.g. religion/race etc it would be classed as hate speech and removed but for some reason MN allow it to remain?
Not at all.
Does increased smell mean you have more body odour or you have an increased sense of smell? Can’t decide if the latter would be awesome or terrible!
Increased body odour. Which... I mean, grateful, considering the increased body odour, wouldn't want a better sense of smell, too! (And my dogs' a champion farter, wouldn't want a better nose for her)
But surely a letter once every three years that pertains your anatomy and physiology isn't that big a deal? Come on, we've accepted you, it's all good 👍🏻 don't take the piss! Just get on with your life and when you get your smear letter, allow yourself a moment of indignation/annoyance/sadness ... and carry on with your day.
The problem isn't that I would receive it, it's that the system functioned so that I never once received it in my life, even though I only had my cervix removed recently. Had I had cancer and the ultrasound not shown anything, my surgeon would be in for a surprise (at best case scenario).
What is it that makes you a man, as opposed to being a woman with dysphoria which is alleviated by being perceived/treated 'as a man' by others?
Neither situation would functionally differ. I am a man by my own identity.
This is exactly the point though, not everyone who is a woman also has a cervix. “Woman” and “person with a cervix” are two separate categories, used in different situations.
That's precisely what I mean, too. Not everyone with a woman has a cervix and not everyone with a cervix is a woman. There's significant overlap, but neither terms directly indicate each other.
I think deep down radical feminists and transpeople are natural allies if only we could find a common language.
I'm wholly for radical feminism. I don't believe people should be treated differently based on sex, I don't believe women should be oppressed, I don't think high estrogen production means a weak person (physically, mentally, emotionally). I was told radical feminism was the elimination of the patriarchy, erasing social stereotypes, abolishing the sex distinction.
My problem becomes when people, more frequently than not people who insist radical feminism, enforce sex distinction and social stereotypes on us. When I'm told I should just be a woman because that's what I'm supposed to be because that's what my sex dictates and that's my role in life no matter how delusional, it doesn't feel like abolishing anything, it feels like reinforcement.
If a trans person wants the toilet they should go to their birth sex toilet. It's almost like a tran man is scared of using the male toilets and a trans women likes using the female toilets.
If you want to invite men with beards into women's bathrooms, that's a sound way to do it. Trans people who are read as the wrong gender may be scared of using the proper bathroom for fear of violence. I personally have no fear of using male toilets and have been using them before I was even read as male.
Given sex self ID (and Sex being seen as a construct) do you think we should just scrap Sex as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act?
Once the patriarchy is fully eliminated and people are treated equally, absolutely.
I am interested to understand why you felt you had to change gender? Why did you feel you couldn't be yourself in your birth body? I don't really like the term 'tomboy' because that suggests girls should act in a certain way, when in fact they should just be allowed to be themselves. Yet you use it a couple of times. Did you feel being a girl meant you had to act in a particular so called 'feminine way'?
I did not change my gender, my gender is as is.. My dysphoria made me alienated from parts of my body and that's since been aleviated. I never believed feminine behavior indicated gender and do not desire to be particularly masculine.
OP, you say you feel like a man... presumably like the men who define themselves biologically as a man, and have XY chromosomes, testes etc.
It is a biological aspect of sex differentiation (testosterone) that has made you feel like ‘you’.
So Trans doesn’t exist without a primary biological reference.
I understand that for you, gender is the way you identify and define yourself.
But how can you and other TRAs demand that women abandon biological sex as a reference for identity?
I identify strongly as ‘woman’ and ‘female’ but have resisted gender construct. It is the basis of much discrimination, and as a so-called Tomboy all my life is restrictive. I am female, not ‘feminine’.
You identify as ‘masculine’, fine.
But there is a part of the Venn diagram where your demands that we all identify according to gender has conflicting interests with my identity as biologically female.
Your presumptions are wrong. All men are the same gender, regardless of genitals or chromosomes, and that includes my own. I do not need a 'biological reference'. I have desires to look a certain way and it meets some stereotypes associated with men and rejects other stereotypes. I also do not identify as masculine, which I've constantly repeated.
I also still fail to see how you're at all having conflicted interests, but that may be because you already have ingrained stereotypes about who trans people are and what we want.
Feminism says 'we don't know why not just let people be who they want to be and play with whatever toys'
And trans ideology says 'no it's nature I have a boy brain because I like maths' hmm
Funny, I'm trans and quite out there in terms of 'trans ideology' and have consistently said the former.