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[–]Thatstealthygal 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The fundamental block is that accepting this requires you to view transwomen as men, and nobody "kind" wants to do that. It's the place where radfems and TRAs cannot find common ground.

But common ground is the only way forward. What to do??

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We can see transwomen and transmen as transgender, a separate category to respect they no longer wish to be called "men" or "women" and also respect the reality that their interests and their biological realities are different to those of men and women. Transwomen remain male, just as eunuchs throughout history are still male. Identifying is not an action that makes them female or a woman if woman means adult human female. Their wish to prioritize gender expression and id over sex does not negate the reality that women are women because of their sex and experience sex-based oppression. Otherwise, women could just id as men and we'd have equality.

Kindness is not setting yourself on fire to keep others warm.