Does anyone else think part of the reason they feel trans angry is that they never stopped being angry?

[StillTryingHard]

What I mean is that I am peak trans angry. But I've been thinking that actually what peak trans has given me is a bone fide reason to be angry with a label that (a growing amount of) people understand. It's given me an outlet for my rage.

In truth I never stopped being angry - about male privilege, women and girl rights, oppression of women, lack of female centric maternal policies that actually really benefit women, about being silenced and stigmatised and shrouded. About a women's movement that hadn't finished.

So I am definitely peak trans - but I think I'm actually peak misogynist.

And what I hear here on MN is a lot of other angry women.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Anger is part of grief. When you accept, you can nurture other women to accept we are slaves. Once you accept you relax for the long haul fight against enslavement. You learn to respect yourself, then others, as you view and respect yourself.

It’s really brought it into sharp focus hasn’t it? Except it’s now packaged in an insidious, let’s-all-be-tolerant-and-woke format which makes it more of a risk to name our oppression.
I’m a recovering libfem myself in part thanks to this fantastic mumsnet community of uppity women who take no shit. No wonder they’re scared of us.

not exactly
I think it's because I spent a few years thinking we'd actually made progress, then we started going backwards and trans is a key part of that.

Except it’s now packaged in an insidious, let’s-all-be-tolerant-and-woke format which makes it more of a risk to name our oppression.

Very well played by the misogynists but, increasingly, people are seeing it for what it is.

Just got to keep the pressure on.