Omg that guardian piece.
'When transphobes talk about womanhood as exclusive, they have to come up with reasons for this false distinction: this group has an attribute (genitals, physical attributes, life experiences, take your pick) which makes them women, so this other group without that attribute cannot be women. They reduce womanhood to a series of boxes to be ticked, like women are a monolith of experience, rather than accept that some women might look or be a bit different from them, and in the process miss out on the joy that comes from knowing and loving women of all different kinds.'
?????????? I mean wtf
'But even as it should, it’s important for us to continue to challenge what the category of “woman” means, and who is and has historically been allowed entry. The exclusion of trans women is the latest in a long and ongoing history of tightly defining womanhood, inseparable from racist, misogynist and colonialist ideas'
I mean just fuck off. Seriously.
No comments allowed on that piece?
I notice a shift in rhetoric recently suggesting that it's people who believe gender (sex role) is fixed at birth and no one is allowed to deviate.
This comes from the 'it's all funded by right wing USA Christians' thing.
Everyone knows that old school feminists have always fought hard against sex role/ gender stereotypes. So if they follow this route even more people are going to be scratching their heads an thinking hold on a minute.