1/ We’ve allowed trans inclusive language to permeate society without being allowed to consider how & why it’s the language we use to describe women, our bodies & our biological reality, that is seen as problematic, that needs to be neutralised or erased.
2/ Why suddenly do so many females wish to identify out of womanhood, femaleness?
Breasts are being bound & this is no longer an act of self-harm but of liberation; a female is pregnant but rejects being either a woman or female; this is not self-hatred but self-affirmation.
Breasts are being bound & this is no longer an act of self-harm but of liberation; a female is pregnant but rejects being either a woman or female; this is not self-hatred but self-affirmation.
3/ Instead, even considering that we are witnessing shocking levels of self-hatred among our young women, is what offends & causes alarm.
That increasing numbers of females regard their bodies as unacceptable unless rebranded & labelled male or at least non-female is just fine.
That increasing numbers of females regard their bodies as unacceptable unless rebranded & labelled male or at least non-female is just fine.
4/ In any other era, we would look critically on this seismic & to my mind troubling rejection of the female body & the female experience.
Those of us concerned that misogyny is being embedded & institutionalised by an ideology must keep saying so.
Those of us concerned that misogyny is being embedded & institutionalised by an ideology must keep saying so.
5/ We are not “completely mad” or akin to supporters of apartheid or guilty of “othering” difference. This is the language of manipulation & appropriation.
We are living through an era of male privilege run riot. It does not give a damn about female causalities.
We are living through an era of male privilege run riot. It does not give a damn about female causalities.
6/ The reason males & females adopt a trans identity may not even be about the same thing. Could it be that for males it’s the pinnacle of male power but for females the pinnacle of female oppression?
Is this why we’re not talking about “prostate havers” or “penis people” ?
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Is this why we’re not talking about “prostate havers” or “penis people” ?
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