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In that case women - feminists - did that 50 years ago, not that we got any credit for it!
The problem is, in their insistence that they are special snowflakes they are trampling on women and girls, particularly lesbians ... I'd really encourage you to go and do some reading on that, it's appalling.
I was reading a story yesterday about a transwoman playing on a university women's rugby team (as it turns out against RFU rules as he's a non transitioned non binary 'femme' whatever the fuck that is, I think that means a bit of an effeminate bloke on whatever day takes his fancy).
There was a brouhaha because the uni bar have desegregated the loos, so he nips for a pee, and scares the living daylights out of the girl in the loo who hadn't realised and wasn't expecting to see a man there. She was villified for being phobic, and he wept male tears about being really offended and said, 'if I hadn't been significantly bigger than her I'd have been more upset'
That people cannot see the irony of that statement beggars belief. I agree with Datun, I really do not care what people do, how they dress, how they present - see my previous comments about Boy George and Eddie Izzard - I do object however if they treat 'woman' like landing on the moon and want to stick a flag in it and shout 'it's ours now'. It is NOT controversial to say there are three sexual orientations, gay, straight or bi and two sexs, man and woman, and then what you do, dress, how you present is all fair game. Be as you wish.
The mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance required to go along with it all would make your head hurt. I object that the American Midwifery Guidelines have already deleted the word 'woman' as this is offensive to 'women' who have dicks and 'men' who can have babies. Adult human females have babies, this is not an offensive thing to say. How do we talk about maternity outcomes for women and babies, if we can't say 'woman' or woman doesn't mean what we all know it means. Ditto say, cervical cancer rates - how do we make decisions about NICE guidelines, drug availability, survival rates etc if women with willies and a prostate are counted in that cohort? And you won't be surprised to learn that some TRAs are campaigning to include testicular cancer as a gynaecological disease! It's bonkers.
Language MATTERS, if words become uncoupled from their meanings then we are in trouble.
Plus, on the narcissicism, if your entire identity rests on getting everybody else to tiptoe around your neurosis and agree with your self perception, I'd argue that isn't subversive at all but incredibly dependent, needy and self-centred. Plus it's massively manipulative.
A bit like feminism has banged on about for aeons that being 'pretty and desirable' is a trap for women, as the power is in the male gaze and not in the one being gazed at. He can take his gaze away, and there'll always be someone more desirable, pretty, younger than you, it's a hiding to hating yourself. Much better to accept yourself as you are.
If your entire identity crumbles because someone calls you 'he' when you want to be called 'she' and yet you are a man, and you look like Les Dawson's mother in law impression, then I say that's a shite Gender Revolution. I don't care if you are a big burly bloke wearing a frock, seriously, far more important things to worry about, but don't ask me to deny reality.