My response that I’m working on: To start off No one that I am aware of earnestly believe that the vast majority of men are identifying into womanhood in an attempt to benefit from “female privilege”. There is an array of different causes that cause someone gender and/or sex dysphoria. Many of these causes have to do with patriarchal and misogynistic culture. They have to do with people being traumatized by traditional gender (aka sex stereotypes), traumatized by internalized homophobia and misogyny. There is however a sizable contingent of Transwomen-identified heterosexual males with a paraphilia called Autogynephillia. In this case, it’s not about oppression but a kink, often started by unhealthy obsession with transgender or sissy porn, or lesbian porn, that people get into full time. There are many forums where transwomen wax poetic about getting hard or “emitting” when someone uses she pronouns for them. This sexual fetish is an example of what they call “gender euphoria”. Funny, because I never had a spontaneous orgasm for being a female or someone calling me “she”. I digress...

Primarily the cause of dysphoria is mental illness. It is a well known fact among even the staunchest of transgender ideology supporters that there is a huge relationship between trauma and trans identity. A sexuality and gender therapist friend of mine (who also disagrees with me by the way) has told me that it is the thing everyone knows and don’t really talk about. According to an article in psychology today, 50% of trans identified people experience mental illnesses categorized as such by the dsm. That number actually goes to 100% when you include gender dysphoria itself, which is also classified as a mental illness in the dsm.

Psychology Today’s explanation follows exactly the rhetoric of the TRAs... that transphobia is the explanation for this. That simply does not make sense, because what is transphobia anyway? If a little boy wants to play with dolls and wear makeup and is prevented from doing that... is that transphobia? No, it is a misogynistic culture policing femininity in men. If a girl wants to wrestle and dress like a boy, and she is treated badly as a result... is that transphobia? No, it is misogyny. If a girl dresses masculinely and wants to date another girl, and some kids bully and harrass her... is that transphobia? No it is misogyny and homophobia. If a homosexual boy is ridiculed for wanting to wear makeup, and he is so deeply affected that the only way he can feel free to be himself and wear makeup is to say he is “gender fluid” so he doesn’t feel beholden to being a “sissy boy”... then he goes through life calling himself genderfluid and he comes across an antifeminist conservative who looks at him with his makeup and calls him a “sissy boy”... is that transphobia? No! It is the same homophobia and misogyny that it always was. But, because the conservative man, also will not humor the gay “genderfluid” man by giving the gay mans chosen descriptor term any credence, suddenly it is branded as “transphobic” and misogyny and homophobia are promptly forgotten by all “trans ally’s”

Ironically, I do see myself as an ally to trans identified people, because I am not colluding in this bizzare and backwards ideology. It by and large does not liberate them anyway, and in most cases their dysphoria never goes away through transition.

The fact is it should set off alarm bells that the main trans people who people talk about and staunchly defend are trans women. I.E. Males. Males who make small gametes and have XY chromosomes. This is a reiteration of a cycle of prioritizing males, of letting females fall to the sidelines.

If, like the trans rights activists would have you believe, misogyny and sexism is all about “gender identity” then you would think that the trans men would be getting all the attention. Trans men would have the privilege, the voice, the dominance over the focus. Instead, what we find is trans men universally still experiencing sex-based oppression, invisibility, etc. Trans men are often as invisible as lesbians, because the overwhelming majority of them are, infact lesbian or at least bisexual.

Race is a social construct, race doesn’t exist outside of our minds. Like gender, it has real world consequences for racial underclasses. It has real world consequences because people consciously or subconsciously believe in it, and project it onto people. “Subconscious bias” on the individual level, and a blindness to systemic and historical realities of oppression. Imagine the outrage if suddenly a group of white people burst forth as “identifying as black” and the entire black world was expected and demanded to bend over backwards to validate them. (We have already seen the result when a White person tried to do this cough Rachel Dolezal cough.) They were running African American community programs, heading programs at Historically black colleges, legally able to be regarded as African Americans, statistically counted as African Americans... It would raise questions such as “what does black mean anyway?” To which the transblacks would say “a black person is someone who identifies as black”. Then you say “ok well what does black mean? It has to mean something” you tell them “my definition and the dictionary definition is 1) of or relating to any of the various population groups that have dark pigmentation of the skin. And 2) of or relating to African American people or their culture.”

“That is an exclusionary definition” they respond “the definition of black is something determined by each individual. If they identify with their own individual definition of black, then they are black”. “But that is not correct nor fair”, you respond, “you have white skin, and are descended exclusively from Europeans”. “That doesn’t matter” they reply, “I feel black, spiritually we are all one big human family anyway, and it’s hard to be a black person in a white body”.

“How can you “feel black”?” You ask “what feeling are you talking about?, you inquire. “Well ever since I was a kid I had a really good sense of rhythm and was a good runner. I just love having long bedazzled nails and locks, I only listen to rap music, I am lazier than most other White people, I love fried chicken, and I feel at most at peace with my body after 8 hours in the tanning salon”

“That is incredibly racist” you say. “Those things have nothing to do with being black”. And this is exactly what is happening with the definition of woman. If a woman isn’t an “adult human female” then what is a woman? The definition of woman that no trans ideologist will admit to is: woman is femininity, nurturance, softness, wearing dresses, makeup, long hair, having breasts, no body hair, hate sports, love shopping, weak, fragile, emotional, high-strung, slutty, prudish, less intelligent than men, etc etc. This does not even touch on the effects of white supremacy in the definition of woman and the de-feminization and complexities of Misogynior. Their definition of woman is based entirely on sex stereotypes. And the reason they universally shut down when you ask them to be specific about what a woman is.. is because on a subconscious level they see their argument holds no water. There is no such thing as “the female brain” there is no such thing as a single male or female brain. It is absurd and it is profoundly misogynistic. Just as in my example, the transblacks definition of black is entirely based on stereotypes, because literally there is no other possibility once they stop talking about skin pigmentation and/or being descended from African Americans.

Trans identified people are proof of the diversity of personality and expression that exists within the two sex categories. Wonderful, we need to bust open those gender (aka sex stereotype) myths. There is no such thing as liberation from gender through more gender. There is nothing progressive about the denial of material reality in favor of ambiguous undefined “feelings”.

Dysphoria (of which there are three types 1)gender dysphoria 2) sex dysphoria 3) ROGD - rapid onset gender dysphoria) is a mental illness. Sex is immutable, however complex it may be when you get into the weeds, in practicality no one is confused about who is male and who is female. A man with less testosterone is not “less male” or “more female” and a woman with a flat chest is no “less female” or “more male”. A man with a big penis is not “more male” nor is a woman with a bigger clitoris. Male is determined by the presence of a Y chromosome and functioning Androgen Receptors. If both of these things are not present, female development will occur.