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

Sex and gender are two different things. Sex is biology: male/female. Gender is ideology based on sexist stereotypes: masculine/feminine.

Many people who ID as trans do not have gender dysphoria, or as it used to be called, gender identity disorder. Also, have you read the diagnostic criteria for clinical gender dysphoria? It's a joke. You can be dx'd with it just because you prefer the sex stereotypes associated with the other sex; no dislike of your own sexed body is required.

Also, why is the one form of human distress and unhappiness called "gender dysphoria" privileged above all others? Everyone else on planet earth learns to accept that none of us gets everything we want in life, and that distress and dissatisfaction with our bodies, with sexist sex stereotypes, and with our lives generally are simply part of the human condition. Why can't people who ID as "dysphoric" over sex stereotypes learn this too? Why can't they adjust to reality and make the best of what they are/have like everyone else does? Why must they be given everything they want and demand? And why must the whole world be forced to play along with their fantasies and put up with their petulance?

if they want to be let in in women/men's spaces they need to legit be trans, pass as a woman/man...

You are conflating women/men's spaces as if they were the same, had the same history, and as if the needs of the two sexes are the same. But they're not! The concern for feminism is with women's spaces, sports and protections; men can take care of themselves and sort their own issues out - they run the world after all.

What you seem oblivious to is this: the decision to allow males into female spaces and sports is not yours to make; these don't belong to you. And my hunch is, you were not involved in the long campaign to establish and build female spaces, sports, programs and to get us certain limited legal protections and accommodations based on our sexed bodies in the first place.

Also, we're all free to use whatever lingo we want in our personal lives, but if the definition of the word "woman" in law and public policy is changed so that it includes some men - the ones you and other genderists deem "legit trans" - then many of the rights and provisions women fought for over the course of generations are destroyed. This is not just about you!