Transwomen ARE women. Trans people don't just "change their gender to appeal to society" or whatever ungodly idea you've got. In fact, they can't. Trans people have A MEDICAL DISORDER. It's called gender dysphoria and that's why they transition. Would you like it if everyone saw you as a man? Probably not. You'd want them to call you proper pronouns, yeah? Well, that's how trans people feel. I know lesbians are neglected, so hell yeah, give them positivity!! But respect transwomen as women.
We respect transwomen as transwomen. You can look through our posts, not once do we say transwomen are men, or use “he” pronouns for them. We think transwomen should be treated with respect and dignity. But transwomen are males, and therefore do not belong in lesbian/female only spaces.
We are well aware that trans people have a medical disorder, but why do you think they came to have gender dysphoria? Society has very strict rules for men and women, therefore feminine men and masculine women will never fully feel like they fit in with other masculine men and feminine women, who go by society’s standards of gender.
Transitioning does not address the factors which lead people into wanting to transition to begin with. Transitioning treats the symptoms, not the disease. It’s like giving someone with headaches due to a brain tumor some aspirins instead of getting rid of their tumor.
No kid is born as a trans person. Their parents tell them “no Suzie, you can’t wear blue, only boys wear blue”, “no Suzie, you can’t play with cars, only boys play with cars”, “no Suzie, you can’t love girls, only boys love girls”… Eventually little hypothetical Suzie thinks the only way she can do what she wants to do is by becoming a boy.
It isn’t a coincidence, it isn’t inherent of people to be trans. But society doesn’t know how to handle gender non conforming people, and now they’re all transitioning and taking dangerous hormones and dangerous puberty blockers and getting dangerous surgeries which alter their bodies forever.
Radical feminism suggests another treatment for gender dysphoria, a treatment which actually helps prevent future people’s gender dysphoria: rather than transitioning every gender non conforming person, abolish gender. Get rid of the idea that there should be any gender, that there are any rules. Women can do everything, men can do everything… Let everyone who wants short hair cuts get one, let everyone who wants to wear dresses wear them… Let women love women, let men love men… Remove the concept of gender, of masculinity and femininity, and trans individuals don’t need surgery, don’t need transition. They can just go off and be whoever they want to be, no added psychological stress, no dangerous medical procedures.
Radical feminism is good for women, because without gender we have no limits. No woman has to stay home minding kids she didn’t want but had to have because abortion isn’t legal. No woman dying because of self inflicted, dangerous abortions. Women can be free, strong, and we can thrive.
And as a side effect, no man has to deal with toxic masculinity either, no unbearable rules about “boys not crying” and “men being always strong”.
Everyone wins.
/ Mod A
