What's not to like about trans rights, right?
However, the problem is not trans rights as such, but rather that the Trans laws being approved all over the Western world are a huge step backwards for women, children and homosexuals.
And one of the most galling aspects is the de facto nonchalance about violence against women that arises if, as a woman, one questions the Trans laws. The general reaction is not conducive to debate, but rather real women are being shouted down by trans women, that is, men. Many of whom are behaving like typical narcissists, hating those who don't cooperate with their unhinged worldview. Women are being cancelled and literally threatened with real violence, and yet those same women are being accused of hate speech by their aggressors.
The small print in the Trans laws being approved is horrific: men in women's spaces, the assumption that surgical enhancement actually makes you the other sex, irreversible treatment and surgery for children and the removal of their parents' rights to have a decisive say in their welfare in this matter, the psychological warfare being used to make perfect people feel unhappy about their bodies - these are just some of the actual terms of these laws. All of this is being cloaked as trans rights, when in fact deep psychological disorder is being left untreated and actively encouraged.
Current trans laws push many vulnerable, unhappy people who are not very good at relationships into thinking that the problem is not our society, nor a phase they are going through, but their bodies. And those of us who want a proper debate before these laws are rubber stamped are being called ignorant, hateful, extreme and transphobic. And these terms are being specifically hurled by very unhinged, and often violent, men, frequently following their takeover of feminist forums, as men impersonating women, often in the most grotesque and sexist way possible.
Which makes me, as a woman, feel that all of this reinforces what I've been saying all along: that we definitely need female safe spaces where men (whatever sex they say they are) are simply not allowed. And we definitely need to be able to ban violent men at women's rights events. And just because you say you are something that does not mean that you are. Can I be a 22-year-old, black hen, please? I didn't think so. Not matter how many feathers I dress in.
In this current horribly binary and simplistic worldview, if you are a man, say, and want to wear pink floaty dresses and loads of make-up, trip around in ballet shoes and carry a handbag, it must be because you are in the wrong body. How stereotypically sexist is that? So from this point of view, wearing loads of make-up and high heels is something innately female.
Very many of these trans women (ie men), whether surgically enhanced or not, then prey upon that most vulnerable of collectives, homosexual women, ie lesbians. Who might like to end up dating a woman, but may unwittingly end up being preyed upon by an autogynephile instead. An autogynephile who pretends to be a lesbian, but is a man. Similarly, women who want to wear typically male clothes (ie comfortable clothes) and eschew make-up and feminine wiles (ie sensible women) are now being told that they are really men. So that real lesbians are being told they are in fact men in women's bodies, and should accept a sexual partner who is in fact a man pretending to be a woman. And the man who is chasing after these women, thinks he is a woman, so he must naturally be a lesbian. (You really couldn't make this up.) And all this, if it weren't already enough, is also a really horrid, misogynist trope: that lesbians just haven't met the right man yet or, in this case, the right penis-toting woman!
All of which is definitely backed up by Big Pharma because what could be better that someone taking hormones and other medication for the rest of their life for no good reason whatsoever? Not to mention the synthetic estrogen-related strokes and heart attacks.
And, as Orwell would have appreciated, a society is in dire straights when saying something is true means it literally becomes true.
Repeat after me: women are NOT "validation stations" for those who have beliefs not based on material reality.
