reneejg.net/2017/08/mocker… "When we advocate transgenderism, we collectively say that we believe that the gains to identity outweigh the costs to the body..that the risks are worthwhile and the price paid is fair because identity..is more important..than our intact human bodies."
"In Wardere’s advocacy, “gender” would be another word for the “sex roles” that are sanctioned in the kind of patriarchal systems that lead women to be mutilated in the interests of male sexual entitlement. In Somalia that system leads 98% of females to be cut."
"According to a gender identity narrative, biological sex is a construct, and oppression stems from identity. This would mean that the 98% of girls..subjected to FGM in Somalia experience this because of “cis privilege” – they have female bodies, and..are treated accordingly"
"Choice, culture, identity, social acceptance, making the body align with sex roles – these are all issues that FGM demands we look at critically, while transactivism entrenches more deeply...
..Transactivists are..eroding the very human rights basis for activism that Wardere and fellow advocates are working to build to liberate girls and women from brutality..make ourselves wilfully blind to the very things we need to examine if we want to fight genital mutilation"
"You can look at FGM through the lens of transactivism, and moderate your impulse to fight for an end to the butchering of girls – you can call it culture, or simply out of your hands. This choice may give you relief: it is easier. You need do little but show up to pride marches"
"Or you can look at transactivism through the lens of FGM..see more mutilation, more invisibilising of women..in the interests of reinforcing patriarchal sex roles...decide to join..in the fight for a world in which..females are free, because there are no dehumanising sex roles"
"You cannot have it both ways. Either genital mutilation is a crime against humanity to you, like it is to Wardere – or it is tolerable.
Your choice."
Your choice."
