I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: It is HILARIOUS to me that people think men need to dress up as women in order to rape us in toilets, when men have been raping us in plain sight, as themselves, and getting away with it anyway.

The gatekeepers of gender, in my experience, tend to be those who do not consider in their feminism the multiple and varying experiences of being a woman. Who have overlooked black women’s unique experiences, Muslim women, disabled women, asexual women, sex workers and so on.

Those who say they struggled to “understand” Judith Butlers interview, baffle me the most. In contrast what I struggled to understand was much of the gender theory I read growing up, as the literature presented us with a “one size fits all” for women’s rights. I couldn’t relate.

“Trans women are women” is no more radical than saying “Muslim women are women”, “Black women are women”, “Disabled women are women”. As such, our needs both overlap and contradict. Your feminism is both bigoted and ~lazy~ if you cannot expand it beyond a ‘universal’ narrative.

“Some trans women are dangerous predatory liars, trust none of them” is a revised misogynistic rhetoric parallel to “Some women are dangerous liars who pretend to be raped, trust none of them”. Oppressors depend on painting the victim as monster to maintain their superior role.

We have of course seen this with racists and homophobes, who also rely on fear tactics and exaggerated narratives of Muslim terrorists, black gangs, and gay pedophiles, to legitimise their ignorance.

It has always struck me as profoundly ironic that those who accuse minorities of having a victim complex, are in fact the ones who repeatedly imagine themselves as constant casualties of trans people, gay people, and people of colour.

I am not a woman because I have a vagina. I do not accept that I have based my entire identity off a body part. My sense of belonging as a woman is from an unexplainable feeling. And a frankly none-intellectual bond with sisterhood. I don’t expect anything more from trans women.

For those fixated on biology: Women do not have one unified experience, ~including~ biologically. Even cis women do not have “matching” body parts and organs. If we accept vast physical & cultural differences in cis women, it is unreasonable to exclude trans women on distinctions

Also worth considering why trans men are repeatedly erased and scarcely platformed, or even mentioned: A person who was born with a vagina, womb, and uterus, but does not identify as (or relate to) being a woman, disqualifies the argument that as women we are unified by biology.

Trans men contradict ~everything~ about the idea that a vagina and womb is what makes us women. It is not by mistake, therefore, that trans men are the least visible demographic.

Frankly, as cis women (if you must centre yourself) we BENEFIT from trans inclusion. We benefit from the concept that we are not defined by, or hostage to, our reproductive organs. We benefit from an acceptance of physical and biological difference, and vast varying experiences.

I want to clarify here I am not saying we benefit from the ~existence~ of trans women. Trans women do not owe anyone shit. I am saying we benefit from trans ~theory~ and non-binary gender analysis. No one actually benefits from ~transphobia~.

Isn’t the heart of feminism a fight against the rigid and none-compromising assumptions about people, based on our genitals?

How we all respond to, and interpret, the made up social constructs projected onto biology, is a ~feeling~ yes. There is nothing scientific about our ~experiences~. How society differentiates between its treatment of people based on our genitals, is emotional, not factual.

As cute as it is to purposefully misunderstand, let me clarify:

Feminism has routinely ignored the rights of women of colour & disabled women. For many its still radical to accept the positions and humanity of each of these demographics. Feminism has routinely been exclusionary.

All you lot calling the thread racist cos you lack basic comprehension skills. Whilst you’re simultaneously denying black and brown trans women their humanity and safety, knowing they are the demographic who are facing an epidemic of violence, rape, and murder...

Biology is not visual. Nor is it guaranteed to be feminine or masculine. Butch women have vaginas, for example. I am discriminated against because of the ~perception~ I have a uterus. I’ve never been attacked or paid less cos they had ~proof~ I have a womb and a vagina.

The idea that I should be more afraid of trans women, than of female Trump supporters who want to rid me of my abortion rights, my bodily autonomy, hate my lesbian friends, and would have me deported for being a Muslim immigrant, is real rich, isn’t it.