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Datun recently on twitter two transwoman described how they 'knew' they were really women. Basically they felt sad anxious and depressed about being male so decided to opt out.
Exactly. It's so insulting to be told that a woman is defined by nothing more than the lack of being a man.
I do, however, realise that it should be unsurprising.
The more you read, the more you realise quite how blind men are to the lives of women and see women only in relation to themselves.
And, of course, there are also many women who see themselves in that way.
Both sexes are socialised towards it from the word go.
It's quite hard to critique your own socialisation. To decide whether your mindset is purely a result of who you are, or the way you have lived - absorbing, on a subliminal level, everything that society tells you.
On a different note.
The other thing about this issue, which appears to consistently remain the elephant in the room, is quite how many TIMs have autogynephilia.
It's one thing for a woman to assert that she doesn't mind a man giving her a smear test.
It's quite another to realise that the female presenting man might be fetishising her biology whilst he does it.
There are numerous accounts of men who are in a position of trust in terms of healthcare, doctors, surgeons, etc, who use their position to sexually assault women.
They are regularly reported in mainstream press.
It's entirely understandable that women might prefer a female HCP. Statistically, they are incredibly unlikely to be a sex offender.
As are most male doctors. But it's a question of odds. And reducing them.
Knowing that a large cohort of TIMs have a fetish about women's biology, ups the ante in a way that is wholly unacceptable.