Lots of the LM threads were vile and had to be taken down
Because some of the posts were awful about LM.
Having an issue with someone and them being trans isn't transphobic anymore than me thinking a gay man is a dickhead is homophobic. A protected characteristic isn't a get out of jail free card.
oh i can deny biology and say my biologically male body will be able to sustain pregnancy... argh. People have pointed out I'm chatting shit. You are so transphobic Nope. I'm not transphobic. I have an issue witj you as a person.
I've seen a post op transwomans vagina described as 'just an open wound that needs dilating'.
Depending on where someone falls on the gender critic spectrum, it's a valid comment.
It's not a comment I would use.
I am happy to accept post op trans women into the fold of women as long as we are very clear that they.are transwomen and so are not the same as biological women and they better not call me 'cis' (but then most normal transwomen are perfectly fine).
There is a debate about what makes a vagina/penis. A vagina to me is more than a hole for sex. A transwoman will not have the same set up as a biological woman. I am fine to say that, but i wouldn't use more crass terma to say it.
Misgendering.
Calling a biological man with male hormones and male genitals male is only a crime if you believe (as self ID people do) that one can wake up in tjr morning, call yoursrlf the opposite sex and then suddenly you sex has changed (because TRAs love confusing sex and gender).
Are you going to tell TRAs that calling themselves women and biological women (with a lived experience of being a human female from birth and associated socialisation) 'ciswomen' that it's actually offensive? Probably not because stating biological fact is apparently bullying and offensive to TRAs but they can deny science and that's acceptable.
Talk of men in dresses
Because under self ID a man can wake up, call himself a woman, stick some eyeliner on and suddenly he is a woman but the rest of us are 'cis' women.
It is important to distinguish between perfectly reasonable transsexuals and people undergoing transition (regardless of one's personal views of gender) and the men in dresses who think performing gender stereotypes makes them a woman.
and perverts.
Because under self ID it is entirely possible for a predatory man or pervert to claim they are a woman, dress to stereotypes if theu wish and that will give them access to vulnerable women.
Pointing this out is NOT saying all trans people are perverts.
It IS saying that there are massive consequences to allowing people to self ID and have it unquestioningly accepted.
The problem with TRAs (and their die hard fan club) is they love presenting any challenge to their damaging ideology fanatic lobby as some kind of criticism of transpeople as a whole. Unfortunately, when you are in a position where the TRA lobby are engaged in some New Speak rewriting definitions of sex, gender, man, woman then people have to be more explicit to communicate.