When we allow any group of women to be excluded, we all lose.
- Trans women are 12x more likely to face violent hate crimes.
- 40% suffer severe mental health challenges.
- 30% are denied access to women-only spaces.
The below link gives an overview of what this means for women…
https://femmestats.com/uk-supreme-court-ruling-trans-womens-rights/
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I’m so depressed right now. I really am.
At any point, any woman can be called “Trans”, which will then give the attackers a moral permission to do ANYTHING to her.
We all lose.
Yes, and no real interest from the readers of this sub. The ruling basically repeated the ruling in 1967 that April Ashley was not a woman, because being a woman was about her sex, her reproductive organs, and being married, to a man, in a monogamous heterosexual relationship, for THE PURPOSES OF CREATING THE NUCLEAR FAMILY. Those were, I think, almost his exact words. So it is clear to me that this particular card-carrying, published homophobe and transphobe, wants all women confined to a marriage, a man, and a reproductive role.
This has always been the goal. Establish the idea that some women aren’t actually women and then keep moving the goalposts until only cisgender, heterosexual, conventionally-attractive, suitably-feminine, misogynistic, nominally-Christian, subservient white women still qualify.
It is terrifying how effective this campaign has been. Especially considering that women aren’t their only target. (Which is not to minimize the harm being done to all women by this insidious movement. It is only a reminder that it will not stop on its own.)
I find it interesting that all the focus of transphobia is on trans women. They use the guise of protecting women’s spaces from “men” but I bet you every single one of those lawmakers probably shared a men’s room with a trans man at some point and it wouldn’t bother them at all.
Transphobia is based on cisgendered “straight” men being afraid of accidentally finding a trans woman attractive and if they find a person with a penis or had a penis attractive then they are forced to question their own sexuality and that’s what is scary for them. They’re scared that they might be gay as fuck, which makes them no better than a woman.
Transphobia is both a form of homophobia and misogyny and it hurts everyone.
And for the record, finding a trans woman attractive doesn’t mean you’re on the fast track to sucking dick at a truck stop gloryhole. There are some fucking gorgeous trans women out there. And I say this as a cisgendered straight man who has never had interest in penis.