This is the new religion. Sing it, sister. Or sibling or whatever. Sigh.

How did we get to this from second wave feminism? When did we think that it would be a great idea to take the class 'women' and turn them into a sub-category of the new gender identity -based category 'women'? And how did it happen that the old class 'women' is now the privileged class and that the other class of 'women' is the less privileged one when it consists of people who enjoyed male privilege until transitioning?

In any case, to be 'cis' requires that one identifies with some abstract female essence in the head or even the soul, then looks into one's pants and notices, happy, that what is there matches this abstract female essence. Most people define their gender on the basis of their biological sex, not apart from it.

And when that is the case, well, then we are adding up apples and oranges when we use 'inclusiveness' as the justification to write 'pregnant people.' Because every time one nonbinary female-bodied person is included and validated, a bus-load of ordinary women are excluded and invalidated.

I hate that whole trans-built edifice, as if one's gender is some weird shitty religion, as if what personality someone has determines which box to tick on forms. And once you go that way you can't define what the group oppressed on the basis of sex even is. "Woman" has become an individual choice, and all the structural reasons why women have been oppressed are disappeared.