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Let me describe to you what kind of world gender abolitionists actually dream about:

When a child would be born it’s biological sex, being an actual physical reality, would be noticed but not a single assumption regarding the child’s personality would be made based on it.

Growing up, children would be free to chose what toys and clothes they prefer. If they want to play with toy trucks or dolls, it would be fine either way. If they want to dress comfortably or in frilly colorful dresses, it would be fine.

Certain personality traits would not be encouraged in members of one sex and discouraged in the other. Females would be free to be strong, brave and assertive and males would not be shamed for being shy and soft spoken.

No female child would be called a tomboy and no male child would be called a sissy. No kid would ever be bullied for what we in our gendered world call “gender expression”.

When children would reach puberty they would still be free to dress how they want. Females would not be pressured to wear clothes that reveal their bodies and males would not be shamed if they chose to. Everybody would have a free choice of accessories, which would not be categorized as “men’s” or “women’s” but people could should whichever they liked. Or chose to not wear accessories at all if that’s what they are more comfortable with.

Females would not be pressured to keep their bodies slim, soft and hairless. Males would not be pressured to be athletic and muscular. Expectations of femininity and masculinity upon the body would not exist and affect negatively people’s relationship with their own body.

Everyone could choose a career without fearing stigmatization within that particular field because of their biological sex. The most important thing would be competence and not what someone has between their legs.

Domestic work would not be considered “women’s work” and would be shared equally between the sexes.

Biological sex would only be thought about when relevant. And everyone would be free to be themselves without ever having to worry about gender expectations. Nobody would feel the need to repress certain parts of their personality and exaggerate others in order to fit into some gender role that is being forced on them.

Gender abolitionism is not about restricting people’s choices but about giving them greater freedom.

- http://burningax.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/a-gender-free-world-boring/

proud-homosexual-woman-deactiva

Yes that’s it!

sbaliosa

The notes on this post are pretty interesting, but here’s my input as a trans girl:

Some of this sounds great. Don’t force certain personality or behavior on kids. Don’t pressure people to maintain a specific physique.

Some of it sounds like absolute hell. I cope with my gender dysphoria by doing things that are generally considered feminine. I want to dress a certain way because that style of dress is feminine. I use GENDER EXPRESSION to EXPRESS my GENDER, because if I don’t - or in this supposedly perfect world - I CAN’T, then my dysphoria goes off the wall with no gender euphoria to offset it.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with having gender tied to certain elements of self-expression. The problem is not that male and female things exist - it’s that current social norms enforce those concepts too strictly. Men can enjoy feminine things; that certainly does not mean the PERSON is feminine, but the THING he enjoys can still be considered as such.

Gender “norms” allow people to identify ourselves and each other. My entire life revolves around this. My happiness revolves around identifying myself as woman, and part of that includes having others also identify me as a woman. In a world where gender and gender norms do not exist, my identity and sense of self also cease to exist.

Honestly, living in a world like that sounds even worse.

marxism-himboism-deactivated202

What you’re effectively saying is that you want your life and purpose to be dictated not by your own interests as a free person, but by some feminine ideal. An ideal which cannot exist independently of oppressive sex-based stereotypes and a hetero-patriarchal power structure. That’s insane. I know you’re a sissification/forced-feminization enthusiast, based on the content of your side blog. It’s obvious that your views on this matter and your perception of reality have been perverted by that fetish, so I’m going to suggest that you seek help for porn addiction.

chadradfem

Some people… use misogyny… to cope???

Just admit you hate women and go.

omnivore-odyssey

This is why we say certain trans activists perspectives and goals are anti feminist and incompatible with female liberation.

We are not stopping you from being who you want to be; you are stopping us from dismantling our sex-based oppression.

If the goal of trans and non binary people is to maintain gender and therefore female oppression and male supremacy, just so that their identities are validated, then they are choosing to stand directly in the way of feminist goals and female liberation from sex based oppression.

If MY chains must remain in place so that your self expression can be “validated,” then YOU are standing in the way of my liberation.

I will NOT sacrifice my safety and freedom for your validation.

starinyourhand

Despite the nauseating response to this post by mra’s and transwomen, I know at least 3 women that were peaked by the astoundingly, thoughtlessly selfish, self serving, unempathetic response of someone born male at birth, who enjoyed all of the privileges therein, telling women, girls and transmen that it didn’t really matter that all of us suffer under sex based oppression from birth, because what really matters to him, is that the world sees him as a submissive, decorative object. It’s rare for them to actually come out and say it, but this post was responsible for at least 3 women peaking that I’m aware of personally. Listen to transwomen, and they will tell you exactly how sexist they really are.

omnivore-odyssey

Since this post has crossed my dash again, I would like to take the time to reiterate and clarify exactly what my response to the initial post means.

Gender, the idea that there are things that are masculine and things that are feminine, is just another way of saying sex stereotypes. Sex stereotypes exist to reinforce male supremacy and female subordination.

There is literally no reason other than reinforcing oppression to associate stereotypes with either sex. The concepts of masculinity and femininity were only invented to serve the purpose of reinforcing male supremacy and reinforcing female subordination. These stereotypes are harmful to those who fit decently within them and even more to those who don’t (which includes trans people, among others).

If there is a group of trans activists that is claiming that dismantling these sex stereotypes is harmful to them because then they won’t be able to use the markers of sex stereotypes to demonstrate their gender identity, then they are in fact reinforcing those stereotypes and therefore reinforcing male supremacy and female subordination.

This is anti feminist and actively works against female liberation and the liberation of all people from oppressive sex stereotypes.

Supporting sex stereotypes is supporting male supremacy and female oppression.

hateandmaliceandcats-deactivate

Imagine reading that, and then saying that we can’t do it because you enjoy the misogyny

rroadkill

#radmemes

iceyrukia

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#YES #radicalization juice

sichorean

#genderposting

angelicalmentenegra-deactivated

#hope you all had an amazing pride month

thesinisterspinster

Ahem

The ovaries are involved in far more than just reproduction.

Do not take them out unless you absolutely have to.

bitterbad-fem-harpy

Ladies with polycystic ovary syndrome:

This includes us. Removing our ovaries will not help with our symptoms because the cysts in our ovaries are a symptom of a wider endocrinological problem. Yes, I do agree naming an illness after a symptom is stupid and misleading. Yes, I wish treating it could be as simple as removing the offending organs. No, the human body doesn't work that way.

girlboss-enthusiast

Link to the study

It specifies that adjusting for estrogen replacement therapy didn't affect results. I'd be curious to see this same study on women who use both estrogen + progesterone therapy. Progesterone has neuroprotective benefits as shown in animal studies, but there haven't been studies on humans yet.

#women's health

bushpropaganda

ackshually, FOIDS, not experiencing my preferred form of oppression is, in and of itself, a form of oppression. you think being oppressed is hard? try being born with a privilege that you didn't ASK for, that keeps being mentioned whenever i simply try to insist that i am one of you. but because of the SILVER SPOON up your pussy, you will never acknowledge the privilege of being born cis. so tell me again how i am "male socialized" and am blessed with "male privilege" when i don't WANT to be male. in fact, you should be lucky that you were born with a rapeable vagina instead of assigned-rapist-at-birth and born with the Rapist Genitalia. your irrational hatred of men is KILLING TRANSFEMS. #truthnuke #transactivism #killalltransphobes #iamnotaMRA

#this is slayinggg me #i am slayeddd like a dragon

Gender ideology is a form of conversion therapy:

last but not least, a receipt for the straights:

Think that's all? This is just anecdotal evidence? Wondering how this happened?

https://www.tumblr.com/thecottongaslight has been documenting this since 2016.

Lesbian Rights NZ collected hundreds of examples of this before it closed. The link is to a web archive of the page, as the old url is now a porn website.

another receipts blog collected a bunch more receipts that I've reblogged HERE. Oh, and there's this one, too.

Iran executes people for homosexuality, but has legalized and subsidized sex-change surgery since 1987. State-sponsored conversion therapy.

Medical transition emerged from early 1900s theory that treated homosexuality and gender nonconformity as medical conditions to be cured and/or sterilized.

Fight back against rape rhetoric and homophobia!

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gendie receipts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

#gendie receipts #cotton ceiling #lgb #radblr #happy pride #lgb drop the t #✌️

diana-lostandfound

"We're just making up for the girlhood we never got to have!!"

My friend who left her Amish order at age 19, who was the eldest daughter to a family of nine, who never had a birthday party, whose days of cooking and cleaning and farm labor and taking care of her younger siblings started at 4:30 am, has never felt the urge to do ageplay

My coworker, who raised her violent younger brother and fended for herself in a filthy double-wide trailer where her parents were either gone or raging drunk at home, who couldn't even dare to invite a friend over because of how horrifying her home life was, has never felt the urge to have a slumber party pillow fight

My neighbor's mother, who grew up as a house girl in southern India, who was born into a life of drugery and hiddenness and abuse, who wasn't allowed to even touch the toilet or dining utensils of the house she was forced to work in for 10 hours a day as a child, has never felt the urge to drink out of a Disney princess sippy cup

MTFs do not want to experience girlhood. Girlhood as we lived it would have made these pampered, whiny, milksop men kill themselves. They want to live in the sexualized schoolgirl anime that was contrived entirely in the minds of men. None of us got to experience that girlhood, and yet none of us are desperately trying to recreate it as adults now.

xcounterforcex

"Parents usually try to protect girls more and dress them in pretty dresses" — yes, because for centuries, women's lives depended on whether the rich rapist would like them and buy them or not. Woman were literally raised for sale like cattle.

Just remember that "princesses," contrary to the stereotypes about their pampering, were mere bargaining chips. They were artificially pushed out of power, driven back to tea parties and dress fittings, because their primary function was to be sold and then regularly subjected to sexual and reproductive violence.

Your idea of womanhood or girlhood is literally built on the propaganda of misogynists (who don't want to lose the opportunity to rape women so they block women's right movement) and the mockery of femicide. Just think about that twice.

#genderposting

officialweatherwax

My lived experience is that I am a woman because I was born female, and it has affected the way people have treated me from the moment I was born. The lived experience of 3.5 billion women is that they are women because they were born female. To try and demand that we deny this reality, our own lived reality, because it doesn’t validate the feelings of a small handful of males who have decided (in the absence of any evidence) that the way they feel must be the way women feel, and therefore they are women, and therefore “woman” is a feeling independent of the body? To demand that 3.5 billion women pretend their bodies have nothing to do with their experience of womanhood because it doesn’t include this tiny minority? That’s gotta be Peak Mansplaining. They are literally mansplaining womanhood to women, projecting their own beliefs about womanhood (warped by their own perceptions and experiences as the oppressor class) onto themselves and onto every woman on earth. How has anyone, especially any woman, been convinced to go along with this?