Now if only people could also respect and accept trans women in spite of the differences...
People do respect trans women as trans women and as humans and as brave males and as individuals.
Challenging the ideology that asserts trans women’s identity as women over the lived experience of the female sex is not disrespect of trans women as individuals, it’s disrespect of a regressive ideology that lies and divides.
It is not a mark of disrespect to refuse to deny ones own story and ones own reality to accommodate someone else’s ideology no matter how strongly they feel it.
But the people who spread the lie that the only way trans people can be accepted is to deny female reality, and by doing so cause distress to both trans people and female people by making compromise and common ground impossible? Well they deserve no respect.
No, it’s not lack of respect for trans women.
Nor is it the existence of differences between trans women and female people that are the problem. There are plenty of differences between individual women.
The problem is the lack of commonalities.
But prove me wrong. Tell me what trans women have in common with all women but with no one else? Not just which labels they choose, because those are just words, but the characteristic unique to that group that the label labels, the thing that makes them women?
And while we are at it, what’s the word for all adult human females that labels them just for their sex, regardless of their gender? Because we all know that group shares significant commonalities, all that’s missing is the name because the ones they had were stolen.