GuardianLions
Although that Alice Dreger post was long, it was absolutely riveting.
Several things struck me. Firstly the extraordinary and psychopathic lengths to which transactivists will go to deny a sexual motivation.
Secondly, that contrary to a lot of online chat, Michael Bailey was completely vindicated.
Thirdly, one can't help but notice that the entire controversy was conducted by, about and on behalf of men. In my head I was thinking good God, where do you find the bloody time?
Lastly, one of the central themes was that AGP should be brought out into the open and recognised as it is considered harmless.
At no point were women as a class, even mentioned, much less considered. AGP might be harmless to the possessor, and the surgery might alleviate symptoms, but the practice of it is directly and immensely harmful to women.
Not only the obvious situation of an autogynephile practising his fetish in a female environment, but the idea that women exist as an erotic fantasy in the minds of men with a fetish.
The very existence of the fetish is detrimental to women. But all viewpoints were only those of men. (I even had to double check Alice Dredger because I wondered about her. Although I have heard of her, I suddenly wondered whether she was a man or a woman.)
Homosexual transsexuals and autogynephilic transwomen might well disagree profoundly on their claim to be the holder of the title 'genuine transgender', but this has fuck all to do with women.
None of them are women, and the more I read, the more the chasm widens between the two.
Women are seen as nothing more than an identity for men to exploit.
Pontificating endlessly on whether womanhood is an internal essence, a fetish, an aid to happiness, a goal to achieve or a disguise, is an insult to women of a magnitude that is utterly unacceptable.
I am a living, breathing woman and I will not be purloined. I am very angry.