I am Missi Spartacus, and I have registered and delurked after years of reading quietly, because I think this issue is pivotal to the issue of women's rights in the future.
Today America's Planned Parenthood tweeted that "Menstruators in New York started to #TweetTheReceipt celebrating the repealed tampon tax—but some are still charged." mobile.twitter.com/PPact/status/771850195478908928
Female humans - women, and girls entering womenhood - are being reduced to our bodily functions by an organisation whose core focus is supposed to be women, because of the trans movement's agenda. Up next: women being reduced to birthers, breeders, feeders, and pissers.
The trans movement, with its harmful cult-like overtones - believe, do not ever question, ignore science and evidence, blindly follow lest you be ostracised is silencing and erasing women.
The trans movement, with its insistence that gender is innate, and its reification of gender - a social construct that varies widely over time and space, and is linked to the sexes only in that it cements women as beneath men in the societal hierachy - is intrinsically incompatible with feminism and women's lib.
The loudest voice of the trans movement consists largely mostly of angry white heterosexual males, who claim to be oppressed. They demand that females open up our spaces and our bodies to them, with all the entitlement of a person socialised male. They insist a penis is female, and then demand surgery to create a mimicry of a vagina despite this. They insist that all they want is to pee, but then reject the compromise of more unisex toilet and changing room facilities. They say their gender identity is unquestionable and sacrosanct, and then insist lesbians and bisexual women "examine their biases" for not wishing to have sex with a self-hating male with breasts and a penis/inverted genitals. And then they claim oppression, and that females are privileged because we are "allowed" (read: society expects us) to be "feminine."
I have no issues with males and females who wish to not conform to gender - I think that's fantastic.
As someone who has struggled ever since puberty with body hatred, I have every sympathy for people with sex dysphoria, and feel adults should have access to bodily modifications after undergoing thorough psychological assessment to explore every other option.
But a male is male - an XY human who is of the sex that if healthy will produce sperm. A female is a female - an XX human who is of the sex that if healthy will have ova. An intersex person is an intersex person - a human, generally sterile, with a chromosomal abnormality or disorder of sexual development.
Humans cannot change sex.
So regardless of whether one's penis is surgically modified or not, males should not be using female-only facilities and services.
I am Spartacus, and I will not stand by while women are silenced and erased, and turned into "a feeling a man has," in the name of "inclusion." This is a pivotal issue in regards to the future (or lack thereof) of women's rights, and MNHQ should think very carefully about whether they wish to discard their core demographic - female women - or whether they will show integrity and take a stand for the females whose womanhood is being actively reduced to a feeling that males have.
Sorry for the screed; it seems in my years of reading I'd saved up a lot to say!