Omg I’m so tired of this pseudo-intellectual bullshit. This kind of crap is TERFs’ attempt to disguise their bigotry as science. It’s so similar to the garbage that Jennifer Bilek writes.
- There is no such thing as “trans ideology”. Trans people are real. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. They don’t need anybody’s belief or ideology to exist.
- Trans women’s existence does not negate the exist of cisgender women. And, no, that is not a SLUR.
- This piece is not only transphobic, it’s racist as well. Not that that’s a surprise! It’s incredibly insulting to people who have actually been colonized. Trans people are not forcing cisgender women into anything. Even though some trans people might’ve said some things about cis women out of frustration and anger, they are not ‘taking over’ womanhood the way colonizers took over the properties and resources of others. Trans people are not putting their flag up on the property of “woman” and saying no one else can tread there now. And yes, this is true, even though some trans women hurt your feelings by saying they are “more stunning and beautiful”.
Real colonization has been incredibly violent. See the Belgians in the Congo or the English (later Americans) in what would become the United States, or the English in the Middle East and India and Africa and China. Or the French in Africa, and Southeast Asia and Polynesia. Or the Spanish in Mexico, and Central and South America. What happened in those places to those people is awful beyond our imaginations. Comparing the process of colonization with its incredible violence to trans people striving for recognition and to have rights is beyond insulting to both groups. You may pretend that trans people saying they exist is somehow violent to cis people, but trans people face actual violence everyday for being who they are.
And then you manage to throw some SWERF bullshit in there as well. Ugh, haven’t seen that for a long time! Not that it was gone, I just haven’t seen it. Sigh…