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First of all: My blog title is not a joke. Do NOT follow or interact with this blog if you are a man. This is a space for pro-life/gender-critical women ONLY. All men who disregard this boundary will be hard blocked, NO EXCEPTIONS.
with that out of the way:
long intro + my stances and beliefs.
Trnas women do not experience periods.
"Periods are not just bleeding they have other aspects too!!"
Correct periods are a fluctuation of 4 key hormones, fsh, oestrogen, Lh and progesterone and they peak in the order listed here.
Hrt for trans women involves taking the same dose of synthetic oestrogen daily as such the level of oestrogen in their body remains relatively consistent, as such they do not experice the peaks of different hormone levels that would mimic a period.
“One hundred percent of maternal deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native women were found to be preventable. We know exactly where the system is failing—now we need the courage and commitment to fix it. Native Hawaiian women face some of the highest rates of hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, and cardiometabolic complications in the nation—yet their risks remain masked by aggregated reporting. Disaggregation is not optional; it is lifesaving. Misclassification hides American Indian, Alaska Native women and Native Hawaiian women in our data—and when women disappear from the data, they disappear from the solutions. Until we correct how we count, we cannot correct how we care.”
Janelle Palacios, PhD, CNM, from Luján Convenes Experts to Create Roadmap for Native Maternal Health Solutions
hate defending (real) terrible women because people just go “so you think she did nothing wrong just because she’s a woman?” like no i think she’s awful but i also think you wouldn’t be calling her a cunt and making rape threats if she wasn’t a woman
I also think that the worst thing the average woman will do is absolutely nothing compared to the worst thing the average man will do.
Respecting women means not using sexed slurs, even against women you can’t stand. Not even about women that are objectively villains. Call them bad, call them evil, call them soulless conservative opportunists, call them class traitors and woman haters and racists and whatever else they are, but dont fucking call them a bitch.
Yes, I’m talking about Erika Kirk and Marjorie Taylor Green and Betsey Devos and Ghislaine Maxwell and Margaret Thatcher and Ayn Rand and Azalea Banks and every other famous woman that has gotten hers and then fucked over other woman that came after her trying to make it.
I hate them too, but i swear i hate hearing people call them bitches and cunts even more. It’s degrading and it’s stupid and it makes you look like an asshole even when you’re rightfully upset
If you can come up with a million goofy clever witty nonsexualized insults for every male politician and celebrity under the sun that you hate, then you can sure as shit come up with something to call a woman you hate that doesn’t explicitly degrade her for her female body
Beyond the use of slurs and the attempts at degradation and humiliation, there's greater focus on terrible women than on the vastly greater number of equivalent (or far worse) terrible men.
How many times have you seen a post or comment that goes something like: "do you think Margaret Thatcher used girl power when she [insert awful thing]?" or "Was Margaret Thatcher a girlboss?". Despite being brought up with absurd frequency (almost like there's not many shitty female leaders to use as examples), Thatcher herself is irrelevant. The target of these comments is the very concept of women in leadership. It's an attempt to put women "in our place", a mockery of the idea of women being in charge of anything or having any kind of power. Because look what happens when women have power! Never mind any of the more contemporary female heads of state, never mind the far worse male leaders today and throughout history. One female leader was terrible, so obviously she represents all women.
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internally, you must start adding “and they still can’t stop us” to the end of every dismaying statistic about rape, male violence, and woman-hating. 1 in 9 girls are sexually abused, and they still can’t stop us. a woman is killed by a partner or family member every 10 minutes, and they still can’t stop us. the global pay gap is still wide, we have not achieved gender parity in global politics, etc etc etc, and they still can’t stop us. women & girls can’t be stopped. we carve out our lives and make change. we are at war and many individual battles are lost, the suffering is enormous. but women will win the war (and are winning across the eons), because everything they’ve done so far hasn’t been able to put a dent in the collective female spirit, which is evident when you look at the curve of human history and how we never give up on improving, inventing, innovating, changing life for the better
there’s nothing inherently oppressive about female biology, including pregnancy or periods - women don’t have “inferior” bodies to males, we literally outlive them in every society despite a brutal patriarchy
what exists is medical misogyny, and it’s the reason why pregnancies and periods are so much more harmful than necessary in a scientifically advanced, modern society
but to think that the issue is inherently women’s bodies is just wrong, though i get why the patriarchy can trick you into believing this
women and girls just haven’t been the spotlight at all within medical research, but many people - both females and males - wouldn’t exist or survive into adulthood if not for scientific innovation
it’s not female bodies which are the problem, it’s just the fact women and girls haven’t been deemed worthy enough to understand, and we were barred from scientific fields for millennia
countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that
Why would trafficking increase when you have legalized prostitution.
Because if prostitution is legal, demand increases. And if it is legal, pimps and traffickers have more room to exploit and sell women under the guise of legal sex work.
In fact, in countries where it is legal, pimps and brothel owners are considered sex workers themselves.
Just because you legalize prostitution doesn’t mean women are going to be anymore willing to do it, but more men expect to go to prostitutes, so the demand for prostitution increases. Where do you get prostitutes if women aren’t willing to be them? you kidnap and traffick them!!
Thank you for explaining this so concisely. I always thought trafficking would decrease if prostitution was legalized, so this is good to know.
it’s worth pointing out that Germany, who’s always touted as very progressive for legalizing prostitution and instituting prostitution unions, has become the human trafficking hub of Europe since those laws were implemented.
if what the Taliban is doing to women was happening instead to a minority racial group, especially if the oppressors were white, i’m just saying, there would be A LOT more outrage.
there would be encampments, huge protests, everything you see with palestine but probably a hundred times more extreme. We’d be listing the stage of genocide this is, and calling it a second holocaust.
I mean IMAGINE a certain racial group’s voice is made illegal in public, and they have to wear a HUGE, ridiculous, uncomfortable garment like that. They aren’t allowed to leave the house without an (oppressor) escort. Banned from education or employment. No protections from violence and rape, basically less than an animal in law. IMAGINE IF ALL THAT HAPPENED TO A MINORITY RACIAL GROUP. this IS what’s happening to women.
But it’s just women and it’s just their culture so there’s nothing we can really do, who cares. Maybe we’ll do a march or two, and maybe we’ll post about it on twitter, make a few articles. But it’s just women.
THIS!!!!!! “It’s their culture” is fucking bullshit. If your culture involves treating women like shit, it’s time to change your culture
"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.
"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.
hey ladies i made a shitty lil infographic!
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whenever I see someone bitching about how misandry is also harmful 🙄
when you say females don’t deserve female-only spaces youre also denying female rape victims a space where they feel comfortable and safe from males.
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/
Yes that’s it!
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.
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.
Some people… use misogyny… to cope???
Just admit you hate women and go.
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.
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.
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.
This thread perfectly sums up how trans theories of gender EXPLICITLY DEPEND ON sex stereotypes and women’s oppression.
Everyone enjoying freedom and humanity would destroy sex stereotypes and therefore the entire structure of trans identities.
Trans theories of sex and gender are inherently patriarchy supporting and anti feminist. Which is why women fighting to be seen as human rather than as a set ideas or a role is considered offensive to them.
this is so fascinating to me. he admits his life revolves around gender stereotypes and that his happiness depends on other people playing along.
how is that any way to live?
You don't have to be a 'pretty girl'. You're a girl regardless of the adjectives. You can be a pretty girl if you want to but you also can be wild, rough, kind, loud, shy, and the thing is. You can have more than one, you can be loud and kind, you can be shy and still wild. Being female isn't a character trait nor a personality. What you do and like makes your personality but that doesn't change your gender. You can be a gamer, you can be a reader, you can be feminine, you can be masculine but you can't change your gender and you don't have to ♡
I hate that the actually very good notion that we should show trans people the basic respect everyone deserves and not let them be discriminated against has just completely snowballed into pretending that men can be women and that straight people can be gay
Trans people deserve the same healthcare as everyone else and the autonomy to choose cosmetic surgery/hrt on top of that with informed consent if they are in a position to be able to receive informed consent. Trans people deserve to be treated humanely in day to day life and not be constantly asked invasive questions by strangers. Trans people deserve to be able to play sports, albeit not on teams specifically designed for the sex they do not belong to. They are people. And none of that changes the fact that you cannot change your sex which is the basis of people's sexuality. I wish more people understood that all of the above beliefs can and do and should coexist.
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what many call 'transhealthcare' or 'trans rights' is just peak liberalism: instrumentalizing parliament for the proliferation of capital so corporative medicine benefits from transhumanism (commodification of human bodies)
rather than addressing/treating what motivated body dysmorphia, the aim is to sell marketable identities via cosmetic surgery
the places where most statistics of violent crime against them come from, namely Brazil and Mexico, are widely homophobic. In short, men kill other men because of homophobia. But that is not the root cause activism towards them seeks to resolve. Instead, homophobia/sexism/misogyny/transhumanism/capitalism take over and here we are, surrounded by the wealthy getting wealthier and authorities trying to heal a social wound with a knife
I love you all so much.
