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I keep seeing these sanctimonious throwaway remarks about "our new understanding of gender" (which seems to mean we ooh and aah over the details instead of abolishing the fucker.) There's

Changing the definition and membership of the class of women to include men affects ALL women and ALL our rights. Handwaving this with "trans women are women" doesn't cut it.

This is the core debate to me:TRAs: Trans women are women, and no debate. Therefore anyone who says they're not (or worse, that they're men) is misgendering, misrespecting their gender

Why are people pretending that it is so hard to define women? I am a human person who happens to have a female reproductive system. That makes me a woman.

Self-ID is always positioned like this, as a right for trans people which affects no-one else. It's exactly the same tactics anti-choice activists use, and the people whose rights are

My body matters more to me than your identity. I want rights and spaces which I share with people with the same kind of sexed body. I don't understand why

Am I the only person who wonders whether there is any sexism under the surface of human rights language, particularly in the light of organisations like Amnesty and the ACLU

What makes women voluntarily refer to themselves as 'cis' while claiming to be feminist? This has been puzzling me after an altercation with that woman from Edinburgh, who's fairly typical

Right. I've been thinking about a prominent transactivist rogues' gallery for a while, and this has spurred me into action.So - this thread is a collection of quotes/images from *prominent*