@NarcoNympho I can’t point you to any articles, but I do find the ones you posted a little contradictory. If you are genuinely interested in learning then I will share my perspective with you
I have absolutely no personal issue with transgender people, women or men. I have worked alongside both for years.
I do have an issue with TRAs who are seeking to redefine my identity purely because it suits them i.e. trying to define me as a cis-woman or a menstruator. I am proud to be female and proud to be a woman, and I get to choose the labels that apply to me as much as any transwoman or enby gets to choose theirs.
I am also really worried that there’s a movement who are trying to regress women’s rights by several decades. If you grow up as a male I genuinely think you’re going to struggle to understand that men can be frightening, and some men will go to incredible lengths to prey on vulnerable women. Self ID will allow men access to women’s safe spaces and many many women are really uncomfortable with this. If a woman dares to discuss her discomfort in the public sphere she’s immediately branded a TERF and shouted down. Some of the langage and slurs aimed at women identified as TERF is downright hideous and makes plain why many women wouldn’t feel safe around the individuals that are using it. It’s ironic really that the loudest voices can’t accept that the male privilege they experienced growing up is influencing their viewpoint.
Secondly feminists have spent decades trying to fight against the idea that women have to present in a certain way, feminine appearance, feminine manners, womanly figure, ladylike behaviour, jobs suitable for ladies, play sport like a girl. As a feminist I believe that there’s no right or wrong way to be a woman, there are times that I utterly reject female stereotypes, there are other times that I embrace every single one of them. It concerns me that females who aren’t “girly” enough or boys who aren’t “men’s men” are being othered, and effectively pushed out of their respective genders. As a result I feel that there’s a risk society will move back to the archaic moulds that we’ve fought so hard to break free of.
Lastly I am concerned that increasing numbers of teens are being pushed down medical pathways that aren’t fully researched and have unknown long term effects. Young girls are being given puberty blockers that may well render them infertile at the same time that women in their 30’s are denied sterilisation or hysterectomy ‘because they can’t possibly know if they will want children in future’ If a grown woman in her 30’s can’t know her own mind how the hell can a teenager? Similarly a biological male with gender disphoria can have breast implants, but a biological female with body dysmorphie can’t.
I really feel for anyone who is so uncomfortable with such a fundamental part of themselves, but you can’t waltz into an established community, start patronising them, vilifying then, telling them that the way they define themselves is wrong, and then get upset and angry when they won’t accept you, people don’t work like that!
Anyway enough rambling, washing up to do.