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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

I am a female

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Livpool · 04/11/2018 23:14

Hi all

Sorry if this is weird but I am sick of not being able to describe myself as a woman.
Just seen this description and so feel at a loss xx

I am a female
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CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/10/2019 09:40

@NarcoNympho why not address the rest of my post instead of focussing on a misappropriated term?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism

Women are not isomers.... Females either. We are women, female. Those words are enough.

Why aren't men referred to as cis more often? You hardly ever see that...

... why do you need to learn and (given your previously batting away) something agree with something rather than accept the views of women?

After all transwomen are demanding just that! Apparently I don't have to agree I just have to use the pronoun of choice... why don't you?

Narco it sounds as though you are in a difficult place. Genderism probably won't help you work out who you are, want to be, can be. That you are binding is incrediby sad and painful, as far as I am aware. Dysphoria is shit, no matter what form it takes. But reaching for the Trans orthodoxy won't make it better. It will simply reinforce gender stereotypes, and your lack of 'fitting'.

Kicking over gender and its restrictions is what feminists, GC or not, have been doing for over a century. We really are not trying to box you in, more trying to explode the box Trans orthodoy relies upon! Maybe help dismantle that rather than climbing in and pulling the lid closed! That is only comfortable for a short while... as many de transitioners attest...

CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/10/2019 09:47

(I’m happy to not use cis but if I use ‘women’ I also include trans women because, shocker, they exist and are valid.

Please don't fall for that bit of emotional blackmail Narco

No GC feminist thinks trans people, men and women, non binary or any other similarly labelled self identity doesn't exist. Many here are the parents of such individuals... they are only too aware of their existence and how painful it can be.

They are valid. Just as every human being is valid. But Trans orthodoxy only works if women are trying to invalidate transness. If it has to acknowledge that we know and love transpeople but don't think that transmen are biologically men, or transwomen biologically women,, then it all crumbles and the emperor is seen without his clothes.

The absolute truth is probably that GC feminists will accept, validate, love, like, befriend any transperson who is not set upon dismantling science and women's rights! Just as we have been doing for decades... before Trans Orthodoxy became politicised and harmful.

Remember GC feminists are a somewhat late response to Trans Rights Activism.

FifteenToes · 21/05/2020 01:44

OP, how does the ad shown mean that you can't describe yourself as a woman?

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