whycouldntijustshutup:
rad-femmes:
Most, if not all, of women’s issues do not apply to trans women.
Most, if not all, trans women do not pass as female.
Trans women are not victimized for “being women” - they are victimized for being trans.
Female reproductive health issues apply to “cis” women and trans men, not to trans women.
Trans women will not suffer heavy consequences if Planned Parenthood is defunded by the federal government.
Trans women do not suffer the effects of culturally-upheld menstrual taboos, government-funded forced sterilizations, or insufficient medical knowledge of their reproductive health.
Crying “what about me” and feeling left out when female individuals discuss issues specific to their anatomy is male entitlement.
Silencing people from talking about their female reality is misogyny.
A combination of women’s issues and trans issues are focused on trans women in every way, including biological (if you develop boobs, you’ll need access to bras - if you pass as female, you’re facing the same discrimination as any other woman, except for reproductive rights).
The generalization that most trans women don’t pass doesn’t mean they don’t experience oppression for both being a woman and being trans, especially by TERFs who will treat them like men in dresses and deny them the fact that they do experience misogyny that is separate from being trans in that trans men are less likely to experience violence and rejection than their trans sisters because masculinity, even in terms of expression and gender, is still more valuable than femininity and therefore they experience violence for being women.
Trans women can be on hormones that make them develop boobs, which is a secondary sex trait that then can create health issues like breast cancer and fibrocystic breasts which are worse in some cases than the same issue with cis women because most trans women will be raised and therefore socialized and educated as men, leaving them less educated on how to identify and handle these health issues, not to mention trans women are statistically less likely to be hired and therefore are less likely to afford the care they would need.
Trans women will suffer from defunded Planned Parenthood because Planned Parenthood offers HRT services that will allow trans women to have safety in passing and overall better mental health due to transitioning.
Trans women do suffer from total lack of recognition from the government about everything from the fact that it’s still illegal for them to go to the bathroom to it costing hundreds (if we’re counting fully transitioning, thousands) of dollars just to have your name and gender legally documented.
Your first response to trans women being in feminist forums being that trans women don’t experience similar - if not worse - oppression than cis women and therefore they don’t belong in said forums is one of many that makes for a divided feminist community where we could tackle overlapping issues that oppress women from both angles, keeping Planned Parenthood being one of them.
Assuming that trans women wanting rights to feminist spaces where they belong is silencing cis feminists is exactly the issue I’m trying to tackle.
I understand that you legitimately think trans women suffer greater at the hands of oppression than women, but you should really try not to argue form that viewpoint 1. because it’s false and 2. because it makes you sound like a liar. Which is why all I could think about reading your response is that bolding something doesn’t emphasize your points in any meaningful way, citing does. So could you provide sources for the claims that
trans men experience less violence and rejection than trans women
breast cancer in trans women is worse than in actual women
trans women are statistically less hired than who? Be specific, the answer “cis women” will not be accepted, you have to show me stats where trans women are less likely to be hired than black women, latina women, native women, immigrant women, prostituted women, etc.
It is not illegal for trans women to use the bathroom, it is illegal for males to utilize public female restrooms and that’s not even true in a lot of places.
Radical feminists who focus their activism on fighting sex based oppression are not oppressing trans women. People acknowledging your sex is not oppression. Hurt feelings and dysphoria are not oppression.
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