Petey Johnson
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

First and foremost, I am a MAN. Funny, isn’t it, that MEN don’t seem to have a problem with gender definition. MEN don’t a tell me I am stealing their inherent maleness. MEN do not use out-dated terms like “transsexual”, nor do they confuse transgender with cross dressing (the latter consisting primarily of straight men who like to wear women’s clothing for comfort and even sexually gratifying reasons.) MEN do not refer to me as a “gender traitor” because biology conspired to grant me two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome (look up Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and educate yourself). MEN are not threatened by me being male, even though I was born with a vagina and not a penis (I was also born with a male brain and body, too, with that one notable exception and that would be my sexual reproductive organs). MEN have no problem understanding the difference between SEX, GENDER and SEXUAL ORIENTATION (hint: my sexual orientation is TO OTHER MEN, which means I am a GAY MAN, not a lesbian; as a matter of fact, I am married to a gay man).

I do not CLAIM to be male. I AM MALE. To deny this is to declare yourself a bigot and a sexist, the very things you blame men who were assigned female at birth. Most offensive of all, you make the comparison that forced female genital mutilation is the same thing as Gender Confirmation Surgery.

Your claim to “female only spaces” like bathrooms are the same claims that anti-transgender bigots use to force we who are transgender to use the wrong bathroom, therefore putting us at risk to those who would harm us. I know this personally, as I was beaten and raped in a bathroom by someone like YOU.

What YOU are is a bigot, a sexist, and a TERF. You discount transgender men and women using the same argument that transphobic bigots do: that because we are such a small minority, we can easily be denied our basic humanity. What YOU are is AFRAID of us, especially transgender women, because somehow you feel threatened by our very existence. It is easy to hate those whom we fear, and by fearing us, it is easy to dehumanize us. And dehumanizing us makes it so much easier to harm us through hate and violence.

The genitalia we are born with do not define who we are, which is MALE or FEMALE (excepting, of course, those of us who are INTERSEX).

Finally, NO, men are not your oppressors; you oppress yourself with your own hateful words.

Peter Delacroix

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