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The Annals of the TERF-Wars | Jane Clare Jones
A TERF is a Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist, someone who claims that transwomen are men trying to invade female territory, as far as I understand it.
Some excerpts:
Some transpeople insist on being called all-woman and all-man, despite being psychologically female and somatically male (transwomen), and psychologically male and somatically female (transmen). Thus, they claim that some women have penises and don't have vaginas, and for this reason, they object to referring to penis possessors as men and vagina possessors as women.
I also note that many transpeople go through a lot of trouble to get surgery that makes their somatic gender approximate their psychological gender.
A TERF is a Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist, someone who claims that transwomen are men trying to invade female territory, as far as I understand it.
Some excerpts:
andPrologue: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Transsexual women: We just want some basic human rights.
Women: Okay.
Transsexual women: We have this condition called gender dysphoria and it’s really painful and we need to transition to live as the other sex because it’s the treatment for the dysphoria.
Women: Yeah, that sounds tough. Okay, if that’s what you need to do.
Transsexual women: We’d like you to treat us as women.
Most women: Um, okay. Sure, we can do that if that helps.
I recommend reading the whole thing.Episode 1: The First War Begins. Scene 1: Cyberspace – probably around 2013
Trans activists: So hey, when we said we’d like you to treat us like women that wasn’t right, because actually, we ARE women and we demand that you treat us exactly like women because we are women and that you to stop violently excluding us from all your women things.
Women: Um, we thought you were male people who had to transition to help with your dysphoria?
Trans activists: No, that is out-dated and pathologizing. Women are women because they have a gender identity which makes them women.
Women: Um, we thought we were woman because we’re female?
Trans activists: No, you are women because you have magic womanish essence that makes you women. We have the same magic womanish essence as you, it’s just that ours got stuck in the wrong body.
Feminists: That sounds kind of sexist. Can you tell us what this woman-essence is, and how it gets stuck in the wrong body, because that sounds like a weird metaphys…..
Trans activists: It’s SCIENCE.
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Some transpeople insist on being called all-woman and all-man, despite being psychologically female and somatically male (transwomen), and psychologically male and somatically female (transmen). Thus, they claim that some women have penises and don't have vaginas, and for this reason, they object to referring to penis possessors as men and vagina possessors as women.
I also note that many transpeople go through a lot of trouble to get surgery that makes their somatic gender approximate their psychological gender.