2016 and we are here having to state the obvious: the earth is not flat, a male cannot become a female, nor a female a male. Biology is real and women face its dire repercussions far more than males because of reality (if that is still a thing).
I used to use the preferred pronouns and now recant those words because in trying to be polite to my transgender friends, I realise that I was adding on to the political force to erase reality and wrongly play into their pathology. The way in which gender dysphoria is simultaneously pathologised and then not, that it is an identity or is it a disorder, that gender is wrongly assigned at birth so let's correct it with a consult to its not a binary but let me act the opposite sex out to a parodic T, contributes to the ongoing cultural schizophrenia regarding this matter, to end with the residual silencing and political erasure of women.
MN has a responsibity to hear women's voices since we are the mothers, we are the ones who reproduce the human species and we are the humans most affected by the largest brainwashing of a society since the Third Reich. It is not a coincidence that many western governments are bending to this lobby, that WPATH a splinter group made up of disgruntled medical practitioners and male clients with a load of money, and that women are left being labelled TERF. Our only power, as it stands, is with an epithet that not only did we not choose, but which does not represent us. The circularity of a term which says that we are 'excluding' another group whilst we speak of our realities and experiences, reveals truckloads about the narcissism of the transgender movement (ie. that even in our speaking of ourselves it must be about them).
I suggest that MN make a statement on this measure and that we make a collective stand against the erasure of women, of biology as real, and of the parody of women as damaging for us and our children, both male and female. The political silencing of women, to include female journalists who cannot easily publish on this matter, falsely makes this issue appear that most women are on board with the erasure of our lives and bodies. Most are not. Should this thread no be a demonstration of that resistance?
I am not cis, nobody has a gender because because gender is a social construction not a possessive of the personal, everyone is gender non-binary, only females give birth, everyone is gender variand women have a right to safeguard their personal and political space by calling out male aggression no matter WHO is commiting the aggression, no matter under what banner they are speaking, no matter how oppressed their theatre would seek the sympathy of its sycophants. As someone who has many transgender friends, I am growing weary that the acceptance of another human involves, no necessitates, our political agreement. I have zero problem with a man wearing a dress, having long hair, painted nails, the works! Go for it. But our right to define our experiences as females which obviously and necessarily will exclude males just as refugees rights will necessarily exclude the rights of wealthy homeowners is essential to our cause, to our freedom!