Kes Sparhawk
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

I agree that at the present time it is not more useful to say “trans women are not women. Period.” than it is to say what is receiving all the pr labor of all the alphabet soup LGBT organizations in the west: that trans women are women. It is useful to reverse the argument and show how idiotic it sounds. The reality is, we do need to define what “woman” is as there is an expanding group of people who feel they can join or leave that group by changing its definition, and expect people to accept something that basically a lifetime of policing has said is untrue. That is where the conversation should have STARTED, and the appropriation of a group’s historical and cultural experience was definitely not the place the conversation should have started. I personally lean currently toward three-four genders; it’s pretty clear to me that transgender women have made it clear they refuse to be men, which is actually a pretty impressive step forward. To cling to the idea that not being men makes them inevitably women reverses that; particularly since so many are using the entitlement of their upbringing to demand that they be viewed as precisely the same as women with different history, different culture, and different desires.

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