Wow, that’s sad, really.
There is a massive issue with rapid onset gender dysphoria in young women - even if we don’t agree on what is behind it, surely it is a feminist issue even for liberal feminists too - because liberalism is about the whole, not just the parts.
So why are feminists supporting transwomen not asking about the reasons why there has been the emergence of rapid onset gender dysphoria in young women? Is it because they unquestioningly support individual choice, without considering the social, structural and cultural factors which might shape all the other choices, and indeed, the choice to transition.
Since when did feminism not care about the structural and social disadvantage women face? Because if young women wanting to wear binders and take hormones to avoid grown womanhood is not an indicator of the social and structural disadvantages of womanhood, I don’t know what is.
And that disadvantage is compounded by the notion that transwomen are anyway better women than born female women (which is what assigned female at birth means).
It is a feminist issue. I know you know that Oleanna, I am just trying to figure it out.
That’s a good point about gender-based violence LangCleg. If we accept it is gender-based and not sexual violence, then transwomen would be subject to the same violence as their assumed gender. The question is whether it is exacerbated by their being trans. My inclination is not, given the prevalence of violence against women, much of which goes unreported.
And of course the point remains that the perpetrators are men, not women.
And if questioning trans ideology is literal violence, then erasing the reality of female biology=woman is also a form of violence.
And binders and hormones are a form of self-harm, really. Men can self-ID with no bodily changes; women are binding their breasts to the point of breathlessness.
It is like being in some dystopian universe.