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As a trans GC I hope I'm welcome here too

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[–]Lyssa 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Absolutely! Personally, I have no beef with any individual trans person but only with the cult like group think and erasure of women pushed by some TRAs.

[–]DustyKitten 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't want him here. Are we really going to cater to this delusional penis haver after EVERYTHING we just went through. I'm sorry, but when did we become handmaidens? I would downvoted this asshole to oblivion if this website allowed it. The OG mods would have banned his ass completely. This is why this GC will fail. Spinster it is then.

[–]threefingersam 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Women being bullied into inclusiveness is indeed how we got into this mess in the first place.

[–]Lady_Montgomery 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This.

[–]homeless-g_c-mod 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hate the twitter format of Spinster. Honestly we need to just re-establish the same rules and modding on another platform which I believe is the long term goal of the original GC mods

[–]AfterLight[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Exactly. As someone with dysphoria who aspires to be a woman, I don't get how this cult of people can say they're feminist and women while in the same breathe tell Real Women to shut up. It's confusing.

[–]jelliknight 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you come here as a man who is uncomfortable with his body, then welcome. But I'm curious, in what non-misogynistic way can you 'aspire to be a woman'?

There's been great women throughout history we should all aspire to emulate, and women are stereotyped with some traits worth aspiring to, but that's not quite the same as aspiring to BE a woman.

[–]DustyKitten 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are the cult. You are the problem

[–]threefingersam 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Woman isn't a so-called "achievement goal," it's biological reality for 50% of the world's population.

[–]deity 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

as long as you know you're not a woman you're good in my book

[–]Lady_Montgomery 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You cannot be a woman unless you were born a girl. You're a man and as long as you refer yourself as one, you are welcome.

[–]Lyssa 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think in the current climate it takes a lot of intellectual integrity to state that you aspire to be a woman.

I was and still am happy to admit trans women as "honorary members" to the club as long as I'm not stripped of the possibility to gatekeep certain spaces. I also have no problems addressing the "honorary members" with female pronouns (unlike other members of GC) just as I would address anybody not blatantly abusive/fraudulent with their new chosen name after e.g. changing religious affiliations or after an adoption as an adult.

I think social/medical transition can be a (very) imperfect solution for some individuals suffering from severe dysphoria that is otherwise treatment resistant. I would not wish that on anybody and would hope that this would no longer arise in a society free of gender sterotypes.

[–]hellamomzilla 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then go away. We got kicked out for sticking to reality and here you are, trying to slip in and tear it down from the inside.

[–]hellamomzilla 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How, exactly, do you think you can be a woman? Do you even know what this place is about? You're a MAN. You're MALE.

For fuck's sake.

[–]venecia 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You ''aspire'' to be a woman. What does that look like?

Please think that through carefully. There are people just like you who outright killed themselves when they discovered that the finest plastic surgery in the world made them look like a cheap imitation of the woman they are in their head. I can ''aspire'' to be a young thin blonde beautiful white woman, it's just that it's a recipe for self-hate because I can never achieve it. And it's a travesty that transition is sold on the promise of achieving the unachievable.