I would feel more forgiving towards TIMs if they actually fought for women’s’ issues – free and safe abortion for all, equal pay for equal work, guaranteed paid maternal leave, justice for victims of assault/rape, as a few examples – but since their gender identity is an “expression of who they are”

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[–]Anna_Nym 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think there are some who do. I can't remember the names, but I remember reading a few articles by older transwomen using their experiences with transition to advocate for equity in the workplace. They talked about things like their work output being negatively compared to their "brother's" work or the difference in respect/assumed expertise they observed.

But it's definitely not the focus of the contemporary TRA movement.

[–]sisterinsomnia 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have read a few TIMs who understand the issues. Both of the ones I recall had lived several decades after transitioning and passed fairly well, so they had some experience (but only some) of what it means to live under the female condition.

But the new breed of TIMs are almost completely uninterested about real women's issues. By 'real' I mean that they prefer the imaginary woman of a certain kind of male imagination (eternally a teenager, very submissive, into being humiliated in porn and so on). When I read what many of them think about being a woman I can't get my head around it. I have done none of the things they rant and rave about and I used to be seen as a woman, though the new trans definitions of woman as just a head feeling decoupled from the sex of the body actually do kick me out of this new gender.

Sleepovers which turn into oral group sex! Where on earth did that one come from? I see it all the time, and the TIMs seem to see it as a rite of passage for all teen girls. Yet I never went to a sleepover and never heard any sex happening in them. The same goes for all the things they write about, including caressing their own breasts and so on. My breasts are just a body part.

[–]Anna_Nym 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I went to sleepovers. Neither pillow fights nor oral sex ever happened at them. Our most stereotypical activities were playing Light As A Feather, Stiff As A Board and Ouija.