This author is Zing Tsjeng writing an opinion piece in the i paper, she points out the victory claimed by feminist activists is pyrrhic and doesn't see the greater picture. Activists on both sides do more damage than good and the bigger picture should show cis gender and trans women joining together to halt the danger to women of all types, shapes and sizes from male predators. Trans women aren't a risk to other women but macho men may be. Let's get rid of institutional misogyny and protect all women and girls, trans variety too.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/defining-woman-solely-biological...
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I wonder
If some of those who now proclaim victory will raise their voices in loud disagreement when their daughters have their private parts inspected by strangers to verify their womanhood?
Love, Andrea Lena
Some of them - maybe
But be prepared to see those who would congratulate that - and would sincerely believe that it is for the good of their daughters.
There is no limit on the human idiocy.
Excellent article
I, too, agree with every word she wrote.
I'd also like to repeat and emphasize some of your words:
Activists on both sides do more damage than good
We are now in a worse position than we were before I transitioned in 1990 - yes, even from then until GRA in 2004 things were better than they are likely to be going forward.
Trans Feminist Julia Serano would agree!
She says very much the same thing in her impeccably reasoned
2007 book WHIPPING GIRL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_Girl
(and coincidentally {or not}, she's also a biologist...)
And though they don't seem to get much press nowadays there are lots of cisgender
Trans Inclusive, Reasonable Feminists in the movement's 4th Wave who see this too.
Dividing the disenfranchised, pitting us against each other plays right into the hands
of those real-life cartoon villains who think patriarchy and plutocracy are swell ideas
and want to keep us down. I wish the TERF crowd could see
that we're not their enemy, and no threat to them;
We're their sisters...
~hugs, Veronica
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
.
The true irony is that women
The true irony is that women and girls being forced to prove their femaleness will not be blamed on the TERFS that demanded this... but rather on trans people. Trans folk FORCED them to look at kids junk... it's the fault of the trans.
*cough*
Yeah the irony will be lost.
I like Turtles.
Blame game
You can count on it. When objections arise, and they're sure to, they (the TERFs) will be right there to point the finger at us, saying things like, "If they'd just stay where they belong, this wouldn't be necessary." Or, "Sorry for the inconvenience but it's to protect you from them."
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann