@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss Thank you, but I was just expressing my own concerns. I've had to rethink an awful lot about this over the past months.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss I have a MTF trans friend, who came out to me in an emotional late-night phone call over 20 years ago. My gut reaction was it was all a bit weird, but I was sympathetic and what could I do but say "welcome sister". Unprompted, I felt this "cis privilege" thing of having, with...
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss ... no effort on my part, the thing he wanted so much. I supported him, I agreed that his skin was getting softer and his figure more feminine, and tried to do girly chat with him although it felt odd. However, I could never think of him as "she" in my mind.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss He has never been obnoxious or entitled or pushy to my knowledge. I haven't seen him in years as I moved 400 miles away, but we're still on nodding terms. So I began by being on the trans side in this. I didn't really examine either my feelings or the logic of it all until 2017.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss I started to realise that many trans people, the political activists, weren't like my friend. They weren't respectful and trying to fit in, they were agressive and controlling. I found out about autogynaephilia, as well as HSTS and ROGD. I realised a friend's daughter has ROGD.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss I began to understand the complexities of it all, the narcissistic AGP brigade weaponising the struggles of the HSTS transsexuals and projecting their desire for validation on to children and ROGD adolescents, fast-tracking them into a medical pathway that might be very harmful.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss I began to realise that 99% of the activists' demands weren't rooted in a need for safety or even normal social acceptance but driven by an essentially fetishistic desire for validation of a delusion. Why else is any offer of a separate private changing facility angrily rejected?
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss The overriding aim of the modern trans movement is to remove any distinction between the biological sexes - at least on the female side. FTM people can go hang as usual, they're only women, they won't make a fuss. But MTF must have absolute female "privilege", nothing excluded.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss There is a huge paradox at the heart of this. On the one hand they demand absolute recognition as female, no deadnaming, change all documents to make it appear they were born as girls, burn the kiddie footballing photos I presume. But on the other hand they scream "trans pride!"
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss What is that all about? You want to go on Pride marches and you shout "down with cis!", but you also want to "pass" so that even your doctor doesn't know he should be calling you for prostate screening? Explain this to me someone because I don't understand.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss Then we get on to, what is it exactly that they *want*, and why? This is the 21st century. Anyone (in this society) can live any damn way they please without asking permission. Nobody needs permission to put on a skirt or makeup or a wig or high heels, or even take hormones.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss Same-sex marriage is law, so there's no difficulty if a transwoman wants to marry a man. They want acceptance, and what could be more accepting than someone seeing "M" on a transwoman's documentation and shrugging it off with a pleasant smile? But is that what they're aiming for?
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss Not on a bet. The drive for legal paperwork is fundamental, but there's actually no concrete benefit to it. At most, having a GRC to present with one's correct documentation should smooth over any awkwardness, and the more this was done the more people would become accepting.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss But they don't want this. They want to *become* us, in every way. They want to colonise us, to dominate us, to penetrate these "women's mysteries" that arouse them so. They want to pretend they're menstruating. How sick is that? And when it comes to biological functions they...
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss ... want to erase all reference to these. Because they remind them that they're not actually female and can never become female. So childbirth, breastfeeding, prolapses, crippling dysmenorrhoea, miscarriage, pregnancy, abortion, all the things we need to talk about as women, ...
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss ... these are becoming forbidden topics ("hurtful", "trans exclusionary") and our very language policed to prevent us having these conversations. Our attempts to have female-centred discourse are invaded by entitled men talking over us and making it all about them.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss And the main aim of course is access to female single-sex spaces. It was right there in the original Stonewall lobbying. Remove all rights for women to have single-sex spaces and to request (e.g.) a biologically female healthcare provider. But, get this, trans people to *gain*...
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss ... the right to trans-only assembly and to request a trans healthcare provider. I know this bit is extreme, but have you read the Edinburgh Action for Trans Health submission to the original consultation? (Thanks to whoever archived this utter bullshit.) archive.is/rkh57
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss Why is any of this needed? Nobody is stopping anyone wearing what they like presenting as they like or getting any medical treatment their doctor agrees they need. It's needed because access to women's single-sex provsions is what it's about, so sex & gender need to be conflated.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss And never mind that this massively enables any predatory man to access vulnerable women with no difficulty, or that, let's face it here, a significant proportion of AGP men are sexually very problematic and not at all safe in women's spaces - just consider the infamous JY.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss It's all about the validation, which is itself a fetishistic desire. And then we come to the crux of it. How do you get this falsified paperwork you want so much, to enable you to enter the feminine holy of holies? Just "live as a woman" for 3 months or 6 months or whatever.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss What the freaking hell does that even *mean*? In this day and age? It seems to mean LARPing a male fantasy of a 1950s housewife, or maybe a cheap tart. Is that what makes someone a woman these days? So much for decades of effort to eradicate regressive gender stereotypes, people.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss This is deeply regressive and deeply harmful. It reduces women to a costume, to an undefined feeling in someone's head, instead of the biological reality of being born in a female body. This is what we have to fight against. Just stop it. Now.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss Live as you want. Wear what you want, do your hair and makeup as you want. Take whatever medication your doctor thinks will help you. But for God's sake *break* the harmful regressive stereotypes. Understand you're male and what you're doing is finding a different way to be MALE.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss We have to reclaim biological sex. Single-sex spaces. Our right to talk about our biologically sexed bodies and the words we use to do that. Sure, we can give trans people huge flexibility in how they live, right up to the door of these single-sex spaces. We can be their friends.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss But to be friends we need our boundaries back. Smash the stereotypes. Take your dress & your high heels (and your cock & balls) into the men's changing room & be out and proud about being trans. Understand that you don't have a female body and let those who have talk about them.
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss And stop trying to reduce woman to a costume. If you pass so well that people are confused by the M on your paperwork (and let me tell you that's damn unusual), just get a GRC and show it with that paperwork. Pleasant smile, job done. Otherwise, just live as you want to live...
@jammach @rattlecans @SophiaPangloss ... and recognise that there are single-sex spaces and provisions and where these apply, stay in your lane. (Sorry for the rant.)
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