Thread by @SonyaDouglas

If you elevate a collection of stereotypes about what women are and what women do over the universal experiences of female people, you will come up with nonsense like this⬇️about the ways race, gender and class interact.
I’d like to show you why #SexMatters here.
A thread:

https://twitter.com/ayocaesar/status/1436295311392137223

Black women, Brown women, White women, disabled women, any kind of woman, and transwomen.

What is it they all have in common?

1.Humanity, ofc.

2.Human physiology, informing and affecting our human psychology.

3.A broad approximation of appearance - recognisably same species.

4.We are all a part of the sorting and structure of society.

Why am I talking about women?
Because men also exist.

What do women have in common with men?

All of the above.

It’s why, and how, we co-exist.

What do women have in common, that we hold independently of men?

1.We have a female physiology that operates at optimal/sub-optimal level, informing and affecting our female psychology.

2.We have a broad approximation of appearance in our proportions, gait and pitch; and in our

primary and secondary sex organs.

This is sex. It’s female-specific.

3.We’re all members of the subjugated class under the structures and categorizations of our respective global societies.

This is gender. It’s a bummer.

4.Ergo, women share this specifically female experience

of humanity.

It’s why and how we’re the “females” in this world that requires two types of physiology to ensure continued species existence.

Black women have this female-specific experience. Brown women, too. White women, disabled women, fat women, old; any type of woman.

Do transwomen have this female-specific experience of humanity?

Do transwomen have a female physiology?
No. Not even at sub-optimal level.
Neither surgery nor medication can create a female physiology.
What we are witnessing is the male psychology affected by certain decisions

and their attendant consequences. (Happy to expand further, but not now.)

Can a trans woman have a broad approximation of appearance in common with the female experience of humanity?
Well, yes.
Female proportions are smaller than the male, gait narrower, pitch higher, but those

can all be simulated or disguised.
Breast tissue can be induced, features softened. Flesh can be reassigned.

This isn’t female physiology.

This is the male physiology repurposed.

This too is gender.

Can a transwoman be a member of a subjugated class due to societal structures and categories?

Gender demands it!

Where women are controlled for the reproductive value of their physiology, trans women’s oppression stems, rather, from the masculinised fear of weakness, with its

attendant losses of power, land and status, and THIS is gender then, laid bare, and the driving fear at the centre of patriarchy.

And because it’s the patriarchy’s central fear, they have adopted the trans woman’s cause in its entirety, and elevated gender obscurantism, and

downplayed physiological reality;
and designed procedures to approximate the feminine and femaleness and femme, and all gender stereotypes and signifiers;
and pursued racism and globalism with zeal;
and applied market forces to motherhood and maternity;
and used sexuality as

both weapon and tool.

And the greatest victory the global patriarchy has achieved to date?

To convince women they have less in common with each other than with a feminine-presenting man; and this, on the basis of the colour of their skin.

Black, White, Brown men the world over, young and old, salute your discourse.

As women, we have more in common with each other than we do with any man,

because we have our common humanity PLUS our female experience.

It is universal, and timeless in history.

This is sex.

It can’t be replicated, and it can’t be removed, and it’s why

#SexMatters

#WomenMatter
#SexBasedRights
#WelshWomenWontWheesht