It’s such a mind-boggling topic to explore, when you get down to the gritty detail of it.
It is just biology, but the previous posters are right in that off the back of that biology is the way we are treated as a class, mostly by men (but most definitely maintained by other women too), because of that biology. We didn’t choose that biology and we didn’t choose the subsequent treatment. That it is beyond our control can be incredibly distressing, and I think mostly the reason why so many young women are suddenly claiming themselves to be men. I remember a brief period in my own teen years, when I first became consciously aware of the systematic oppression of my sex, and I very badly wanted to get out of that. It became very apparent very quickly, after a lot of reading and soul-searching, that it was absolutely impossible to become a man and therefore throw off the shackles of my sex. The best I could possibly hope for was flying under the radar. But I knew that was simply a lie. And so here I am today, accepting of my sex, but refusing to accept that out-of-control feeling that comes with my sex-class oppression, and therefore fighting for women’s rights and freedom from patriarchy.
When it comes to the trans argument, it’s clever in the sense that we have a very hard time proving they are wrong. We know they are wrong, they know they are wrong, and sex is a simple fact. However, it’s almost impossible to argue against someone who claims they have a “feeling” because we are all taught to respect another person’s feeling.
I believe there are some individuals, as pointed out above, that genuinely see themselves as something other than their biology. That doesn’t mean they are, but they so strongly do NOT identify with their own biology that they turn to the other sex looking for reprieve. This has nothing to do with the reality of their own biology and everything to do with the trappings and stereotypes that come with their biology as a class.
However, what we are dealing with currently is, for the most part, something entirely different. Most of these people claiming trans, I do not believe they genuinely feel they are the other sex. Some, like the young girls, are in a lot of pain because they are female living in a world where there is relentless pressure to be a certain way. Eating disorders and self-harm are disordered ways of coping with this pain. I believe refusing to “identify with” one’s biology is another.
The other camp is simple: men who, like the previous poster with the tale of The Princess and the Frog stated, simply wish to possess women in their entirety until they do not exist. We are an inconvenience to those men because they need us. They need us to grow them, carry them, birth them, look after them, give sex to them. And they hate that. They hate that they see us as weak (as a result of their own class’s doing). They hate that they know we are strong (despite every effort they make at breaking us down). We remind them of their own shortcomings.
In short, they hate us because we are what they can never be: female. So they are making every effort to erase that one thing that they can’t logically, factually possess, by doing their damn best to convince us that they can. They want to take away the fact of our biological reality and pretend it is their own.
Unfortunately for them and luckily for us, no matter how much they scream and shout and pretend and lie and manage to convince some of us, the truth is still always the truth no matter how many people deny that truth.
We are women; they are not.
And they fucking well hate us for it.