Just because you claim not to have seen aggressive behaviour from a 'transwoman' doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It just hasn't happened to you.
Yes, Clarice, this was my reaction too.
It feels like you’re implying, suggestionsplease1, that if you’ve never seen it, it never happens.
The women it has happened to, the Lucy Masouds, the daughters of women on this thread, the women right here giving their own testimony about how their social spaces and “community” have been changed by biologically male people having or claiming access to them, the women here posting examples of the crap they have to put up with in online lesbian spaces, posts that clearly fetishise women in general and lesbians in particular - posts that are clearly made by male people who get a sexual kick just out of invading those spaces and imposing their sexual proclivities on the women in those groups, whether those women wish it or not, whether they consent or not - you seem to be implying that none of those women even exist, suggestions, never mind matter!
Just because you and your friends have such porous boundaries that you are happy to put your energies into taking care of a vulnerable male in a space that’s meant to be for females, doesn’t mean every other woman should be happy to do the same.
Some women want something for themselves and themselves exclusively. I know, shocking concept in a world that doesn’t encourage females putting themselves first! A world that doesn’t approve of women having something quite apart from the control, oversight or participation of male people/men!
But this is the feminism and women’s rights board, after all, and we do have some of those seditious ideas. Try not to have an attack of the vapours, however desperately you may wish we could return to the 19th century.
Just because you are willing to bend the laws of science and logic and pretend that a biologically male person who’s sexually attracted to women can be called a lesbian if that person is vulnerable enough (or in other contexts domineering enough, or manipulative enough) doesn’t make you a better or more admirable person than the women who aren’t willing to do the same.
It makes you someone who has made a choice to be on the side of the existing power structures, rather than someone who is pushing for radical change to address the real, deep-rooted inequality and injustice that sits at the very foundation of our society. And it is of course your perfect right to make that choice.
It’s not your perfect right however to demand other women do the same. Or that other women deny their own, very real, experience when it differs so radically from yours. Or that we collude with you in pretending there’s anything feminist whatsoever about your choice.
I put you on a par with the women who fought against women’s suffrage, myself.