Lagging behind the United States, the West wakes up to the massacre in Gaza voltairenet.org/article222317.…
Lagging behind the United States, the West wakes up to the massacre in Gaza
While the IDF has been massacring the civilian population of Gaza and colonizing the Gaza Strip for a year and a half, supposedly to fight Hamas, the West has only just become aware of what is going on.Voltaire Network
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •They want to make it impossible to participate in women's sports without invasive and humiliating investigation. They want women to be uncertain whether someone will accost them for entering a woman's restroom while appearing insufficiently feminine.
They want the ability to critique and control women's participation in the public sphere. It's fucking horribly regressive, and it *will* get out of hand quickly. It already is.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •Trans women are an easily vilified group of women, whose "otherness" can be used an excuse to police all women.
Trans rights are human rights, and trans women's rights are women's rights.
Women have a right not to be scrutinized for how we choose to participate (or not) in femininity. We have a right to live our lives without proving anything to anyone. We should not need to ask for permission to exist in public.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •Meanwhile to these people, trans men don't exist.
Persons perceived as feminine are not granted the right of self-determination, are not granted their own identities. When persons designated "feminine" by society cease to perform femininity as demanded, it is tantamount to ceasing to exist.
For these people, to be a trans woman is to be a pariah. To be a trans man is to be a ghost. There is only one way for female-designated persons to exist.
That is not freedom. That is a denial of humanity.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Non-binary people are...well, whatever they say they are... that's a mixed bag of individual identities, to say the least.
People who want to restrict trans rights want to restrict human rights. They want to set the boundaries of what it means to be human and force everyone to obey.
Transphobia is a form of proto-fascism.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •As a genderqueer cis-ish woman (it's complicated), anything that hurts trans women hurts me. Any right people want to deny to trans women is a right that now can be refused to me also.
If there is a standard for who is and isn't a woman in the "right" way that determines how you are allowed to interact with the world, then women don't have rights. We have obligations. We have to earn our participation in the world. We have to prove we are deserving of it by the degree of our femininity.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •I wish more cis women would understand that the way society treats trans people is inextricably related to our rights as women to individuality and self-determination and to our ability to freely exist in society.
The idea that trans men are "lost" women should tell you that they believe that your feminine body and your existence as a feminine person is something you *owe* to the world. If you cease to perform femininity, you have taken something away from others that was rightfully owed them.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •When someone "grieves the loss" of "girls" who are actually trans men, they are saying that those men's bodies never belonged to themselves but to others. Especially when they talk about things like top-surgery or sterilization.
Bodies perceived as "feminine" are not to be altered because somehow it is important to others that we have breasts and functioning wombs.
Cis women, this should concern you. Deeply.
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I wouldn't say "don't exist". Quite the opposite. To them, trans men exist, and are a dangerous deviation from femininity, that needs to be corrected. Ater the UK Supreme Court ruling, it was made clear (I think by the EHRC?) that trans men can be barred from both men and womens toilets, for instance.
The TERF "lost sisters" rhetoric, one camp further to the right, amounts to violent detransition, conversion torture, and ultimately mandatory breeding. The TERF crusades against "person with uterus", "menstruating people", etc. rhetoric has proven that excluding trans men from all things womens rights – contraception, abortion, etc. – is the plan and the point.
To say "trans men don't exist" is to miss the entire flip side of the coin which is not only to villfy trans women as a means of controlling women's public existence in general, but also to punish deviation from the feminine/female norm to the fullest extent.
Don't let them divide us.
Nini
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in reply to Artemis • • •Thinking about that one transphobe highlighted on Last Week Tonight who claimed that, upon seeing one (1) "trans woman" (she wasn't, she just had short hair and was good at sports) on the baseball field, the very souls of every one of her teammates were irreparably crushed, and the massive Inferred Penis Difference between the teams led to an inescapable, overwhelming defeat.
Thinking about the contrast between that, and the accounts I read from 2012-2018 of highschool women's teams beating their male counterparts in friendly matches.
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in reply to Artemis • • •I kinda disagree: misogyny in ALLLL it's forms (misogynoir, transmisogyny, lesbophobia, etc... ) is the core threat.
The current climate is starting with trying to kill off transrights, because it gets the biggest buy-in with religious folks. But the project 2025 goal is seriously to return all womb-bearers to the role of property and not a fully recognize human.
transphobes are afraid of women being considered fully human, so they do everything to make sure that anyone they don't consider a "real male" are being subjected to enforced "norms" that don't allow for bodily autonomy.
transphobes come in all genders, too.
terfygirls who fear strong women are just as evil toward transwomen as the skeeered menz are, because terfygirl is afraid to or unable to stand up for their own bodily autonomy and/or life goals. It doesn't matter if the Person that intimidates them is AFAB&non-feminine, AFAB-transmasc, or AMAB-transfem.
These all are fully SELF-recognized persons. Terfygirl feels her entrapment, but instead of working to free herself - she must Oppress others. She does not believe in her own personhood, or it's been beaten out of her.
A friend of mine (now passed from cancer) was embracing the terfygirl monologue. She was a battered child, teen, and adult. She was very damaged and lived in pain. But even through that - she never accepted that a cis woman would ever abuse her. When her female partner of over a decade (of siphoning off my friends savings) found that friend had cancer - partner became ex really fast when they learned that the savings were gone, and (ex-)partner was expected to be paying for the medical expenses and household expenses from her salary. Ex had freeloaded themselves into the position with promises of future earnings, but when it became a real requirement - ex split fast and ugly.
Even after the ex was gone, and friend was facing the end, transwomen were still (in her mind) the biggest threat to her heath and safety in "women-only" spaces.
To her - her personal safety was jeopardized by their presence in (online/virtual) women-only spaces.
I could not understand it, but I saw it IRL.
So - yes, transphobes and transmisogyny are serious issues, but I see both as cloaking of the true misogyny behind it.
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