Article from a TW with some very clear and concise quotes – also constructive comments too (a rarity)
“…These norms attempt to control and prohibit behaviours according to an individual's sex. They are behavioural straitjackets which have evolved to keep women in their place and men ready for work and warfare…”
“…Some of the controversy around all-women shortlists [insert any other sex segregated issue] has also highlighted the need for positive discrimination to help correct the political under-representation of trans people. However, where additional seats or positions cannot be created these should be taken from men, not from oppressed women still struggling against their own under-representation …”
“…Campaigning to maintain consent is fundamentally different from demanding (as a right) spaces which belong to women and over which women must have control if they as a distinct biological sex are not to be subordinated to the priorities of people born male …”
One ‘right’ we don’t have is to distort or ignore biology to insist we belong to a category from which our genes and our socialisation irrevocably exclude us. I can never experience female biology or all those related issues which have been at the heart of the discrimination and struggles women face. Neither can I ever know the profound and foundational experience of girlhood socialisation which forms the mental and emotional prism through which adult women synthesise their experiences …”
www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/19538-as-a-trans-woman-this-is-the-unity-i-want-to-see