I was on TikTok, which is in itself a poison, when a video from a transwoman popped up on my feed.
It was a skit of someone asking them why they have small boobs to which they replied "I'm trans".
I really can fucking not with these people.
As a small chested woman who has been bullied for not having curves, to have a man cosplaying as a woman insinuate that the way your body naturally looks is so unfeminine it could be thought that you were actually born male is one of the most repugnant things I've come across within this trans debacle.
I could never support these people because their entire ideology goes against everything that I believe. To transwomen being a woman is purely about the aesthetic. A woman is a pretty object that they wish to emulate through superficial things such as clothes, hair, makeup and surgery.
A woman is a fantasy for them to live through vicariously.
The reason why the false belief of "cis-privilige" exists is because of this model image that transwomen believe a woman to be.
When they think of a woman they're thinking of a first world girl that lives in the inner-city who had the perfect Western world experience with the picturesque childhood filled with dolls and pink dresses, to the stereotypical high-school experience with crushes and proms and so on and so forth.
They're not thinking of poor women who have to work hard long hours in order to keep a roof over their head. The women who can't afford nice clothes or makeup.
They're not thinking of disabled women.
They're not thinking of mentally ill women.
They're not thinking of women who deviate from strict societal and cultural standards of beauty.
They're not thinking of women of colour like me.
They're not thinking of women born into third world countries, who have to deal with misogyny as well as the lack of basic things like access to food, shelter and education.
They're not thinking of women who have been abused their entire lives and have no one in the world who cares or thinks about them.
They're so obsessed with the caricature of womanhood they've been fed their entire lives they don't even see these other women. They don't acknowledge these other women. These women aren't women to the because the only woman they see in value is the privileged teenaged white girl that so many of these transwomen try to emulate.
And it's disgusting.
So many women are under the false guise that accepting transwomen will aid us in some way (spoiler- it won't) that they can't see that they're accepting a literal wolf in sheepskin.
They're trying to change what it is to be female and it is only going to hurt actual women in the end.
Having a flat chest doesn't mean you look like a man.
Being hairy doesn't mean you look like a man.
Not having an hourglass figure or wide hips doesn't mean you look like a man.
Being tall doesn't mean you look like a man.
But, having a man that has these features come and try to say that he's a woman is not the way to combat this, yet so many women seem to think that it is for reasons I cannot understand.
I, like other women, do not want to be compared to a man in any circumstance. The most "manliest" woman is still more feminine than the most emulating transwomen by the fact that she has two X chromosomes ALONE.
The whole idea of "passing" is inherently misogynistic.
I don't know how any woman that claims to be a feminist can bear to be around these people.
I'm just angry.
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