The weirdest and most illuminating thing about the JK Rowling controversy for me was the absolute focus on TiMs, even though by trans logic it was TiFs that were most directly misgendered by making the point that everyone who menstruates is a woman. As usual, the focus is solely and forever on males

submitted by marmorsymphata from self.GenderCritical

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]sisterinsomnia 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This might be a more distant connection to the same thing, but worth thinking about:

The female body is in the process of being completely erased (we are vulva-owners or cervix-havers or uterus-carriers instead) by being made gender-neutral (pregnant people, menstruators), while the male body stands as it always has, with no attempt to increase inclusive language in health screening messages on, say, prostate cancer (all ejaculators, time to check your prostates).

I think this difference is driven by a kind of misogyny, the hatred of the female body, which might be shared by trans women, trans men and those nonbinary people who have that body. Nobody in those groups wants the female-bodied people to have a name, even though absence of a name for that group makes fighting sexism extremely tough.

And yes, I think the trans women are dominating much of the activism. Natal women are expected to be inclusive and kind and that plays into the very sex-patterned developments, too.