Also, cal me a TERF if you will, but clearly a "third space" is the obvious answer as others have mentioned hmm
This third space issue is a nonstarter. There’s not a feminist alive who wouldn’t vote for it. But transactivists go crazy if you suggest it.
I agree entirely with the arguements about women only spaces. But I feel this has allowed transphobic views to unintentionally prosper.
You’ve got that the wrong way round.
Feminists have never been against trans people. Firstly asserting that a man is a man should not be considered transphobic, given it’s true and is the basis of the problem.
Secondly, if you feel it has been some antagonism. Yes there has.
I don’t think all of you wondering why this is happening have actually experienced, or read any of the assertions and narratives that have led us to this.
For instance, the man recently on Twitter who had a film of himself naked from the waist down masturbating with a dildo in his anus. Feminists reported it as pornography. He claimed that was transphobic because he is a woman and women are allowed nudity on Twitter he just forgot a ‘sensitive material’ warning.
Or the well-known transwoman who writes quite frequently about their genitalia and the surgery, and how they masturbate in women’s changing rooms. And claims women get turned on when they buy new clothes. He has a ‘wank circle’.
Or the other famous transwoman who writes for mainstream media saying there is nothing more hot than fucking someone who is crying. Representing women when he talks this way.
Or the other one telling women to enjoy their erasure. And the other one telling women to suck their dick. Or the other one who is constantly on the television who claims that unshaven legs are dirty.
Or the other one who says women’s biology is meaningless, whilst in a public post officially representing women.
These are not people found in the dark corners of the Internet, or on Reddit. These are paid up members of society who have a public platform to speak (apart from the first one). They have influence and key roles. They are listened to.
If you forget mainstream media and look elsewhere you will find, literally thousands of posts. Transwomen who go into women’s bathrooms and ejaculate on toilet paper. For the sole purpose of impregnating the next woman who goes in, who they watch.
The numerous accounts of men who have gone into women’s only groups, like knitting circles, taken over and ruined it. Or colonised lesbian spaces. So the lesbians have to go elsewhere, which are then colonised. So the lesbians have nowhere to go.
The shutting down of women only festivals, like Mitchfest which ran for 40 years until transactivists shut it down. The vandalising of the women’s library by transwomen, who subsequently daubed the word transphobic across the door of a rape crisis centre.
The articles which talk about transwomen as sexual partners. How much better than women they are in bed, because they know what men want. And they want to be forced, slapped, etc.
Or the accounts on here of women who man rape crisis telephone lines, and have to deal, daily, with transwomen calling, pretending they have been raped, and making the woman listen to the account. The women can tell immediately that they are fake.
Are there are literally thousands more.
I’m sure you think this is the ‘radicalised’ side of the trans ideology. It is, and it includes the autogynephile side.
What it isn’t is niche.
It’s transsexuals who are now niche.
There are far too many transwomen who don’t sound like women, don’t support women, don’t even like women. But who sound exactly like the men feminists are always concerned about.
Who you should be concerned about. Who transsexuals are concerned about.
And, to a man, they are demanding access to women’s spaces. This is why they violently disagree with a third space. And the only way they can keep nailing it home is to constantly claim that transwomen are women - just a different kind of woman.
If you accept there are ‘different kinds of women’, who behave exactly like misogynistic men everywhere, you’re fucked.