This is particularly interesting - they bleat about this but then want trans children refused any kind of help. "Well, you were a MAN until you were (inset age)" Yes - because of you, you fucker! You're the one that campaigned against help and services for trans kids!!
GCs have tied themselves into the most unbelievable knots trying to justify their prejudices that no-one with the slightest interest in logic and cohesion of position could understand them.
Have said many a time that they are a complete and utter bag of contradictions.
Like, if a trans women is feminine then she is a caricature of or is fetishising womanhood but if she dresses more muted or androgynous then she “isn’t even trying to look like a woman.”
just find it odd because it's not like every cis woman has the same experience anyway, is it?
This is particularly a problem in the UK because our mainstream broadsheet feminism doesn’t even attempt to be intersectional. All of the voices you hear are white, straight, middle class mothers, often approaching middle age - and they talk about their experiences as essentially representative. Unsurprisingly, as much as they bang on about “defending lesbians”, this is also the primary TERF demographic.
If we were able to stop defining womanhood by the pain men cause women, we'd be a lot further forward. But no, let's not talk about a serving police officer abusing his position to rape and murder a women, let's talk about toilets.
Notable friend of
@Penelope Shon Faye’s amazing book on trans liberation (which I recommend to any cis people wanting to know more) touches on this - she basically says that these talking points are essentially means of keeping trans people in a closed-loop debate so nothing ever moves forward.
“I believe that forcing trans people to involve themselves in these closed-loop debates ad infinitum is itself a tactic of those who wish to oppress us.
Such debates are time-consuming, exhausting distractions from what we should be focusing on: the material ways in which we are oppressed. The author Toni Morrison once spoke about how precisely this tactic is employed by white people against people of colour. ‘The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction,’ she told students at Portland State University in 1975. ‘ It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being ... none of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.’”
I am so fucking bored of it.