"Women were always, for decades, natural allies of transsexuals, for whom most of us felt a deep empathy as vulnerable persons who were refugees from masculinity. It is deeply sad that all of that goodwill is now almost fatally undermined, not because a cohort of women has suddenly gone rogue and hateful, but because the new transgenderism is an extremist, cult-like, repressive ideology that encompasses - in fact, as wrexhamtrans says, it CENTRES - not the dysphoric but those with sexual fetishes and paraphilias. Moreover, it is vociferously promoting a transitioning pathway for children that sets them on course for sterilisation, sexual dysfunction, surgery and lifelong medicalisation.
Tragically, it is transsexuals with gender dysphoria, who are now a small subset of the trans umbrella and are notable by their care and concern for women and misgivings about setting children on a medical pathway before they have reached the age of majority, who will bear the brunt of any backlash from the hard right. The part-time cross-dressers, sexual fetishists, blue-haired university oppression appropriators and other agitators can and probably will abandon their new identities in the event of such a backlash, leaving the genuinely dysphoric to withstand the shit storm they did not create."
Brilliantly put.
As a transsexual with gender dysphoria I very much feel a minority within the transgender umbrella. My struggles with gender identity were picked up at the age of 5 and have resulted in significant mental health issues and caused a lot of damage in my life. I for one cant accept a sexually motivated cross dresser under the same banner as me.
For what it's worth I am extremely concerned over the way women are being erased and I think it has gone far too far. I find that when I don't push myself into women's faces for acceptance and just let them see me and talk to me I find that I am accepted in the vast majority of cases.
Self identification is wrong....simple as that. It is dangerous to women and dangerous to dysphoric transsexual people. It is the new transgenderism that sees me subject to daily abuse and genuine hate crime because the fact is I am now under a label that could mean I am a sexually motivated part time cross dresser.
We have got to get back to old school definitions here..... let's get rid of this ridiculous transgender umbrella and focus on the transsexual minority.....the formally diagnosed and medically transitioning.
I use disabled toilets but were I to use a female toilet would anyone really have an issue knowing I was diagnosed, on HRT, had breasts and therefore was vulnerable in a male environment and had been castrated ?