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[–]Shadow_Lurker 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think “truscum” are not as reasonable as they try to pretend they are......

The way they treated Ariele Scarcella is already enough proof of that.

She gave them a larger platform and even defended them from attacks by other TRAs only for what? To be vilified and discarded when she was of no more use to them.

The only way to really believe in this is if you’re really sexist and think that playing with dolls is only for girls. To put it into law you would have to say women must dress feminine otherwise it wouldn’t be fair because “cis” women can be tomboys but trans women can’t.

Not only that, but also have you noticed how vague the criteria for the diagnosis of gender disphoria is?

It's how you said: it pathologies gender atypical behaviour by attaching a medical diagnosis and the need of a "treatment" to it. It's very regressive.

Tucutes are just trying to apply gender equality to trans. Which is hard because trans requires lack of gender equality...

I would not say so.

If tucutes really wanted gender equality they would recognise at least that the relativization of the concept of woman is damaging mainly to woman in the same way the relativization of the concept of black is damaging to blacks.

If you can't define in material terms the people you are fighting for, then how are going to articulate concrete demands to really around? You'll end up like the modern liberal feminist and LGBT movements, focusing on culture warrior bullshit instead of real problems, because as we all know, the main problem woman, gay and lesbian people face is that they are not represented in capeshit movies!

[–]peaked2020 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m not saying they’re doing a good job... only that they’re trying to avoid generalizing the sexes by saying “oh trans women can look any way and so can cis women”