Transmen welcome
No, men are not going to pretend to be transmen to get into women's toilets, FFS
I regret to inform you that Natasha Devon has been at it again. The latest craycray she’s plucked from her arse is that, well, take a look…
I’m not even going to touch on the inanity of “assigned at birth”. My son’s cock and balls were the first things I ever saw of him when I had my first pregnancy scan at 20 weeks, so the phrase just makes my arse laugh every time.
The idea that men would pretend to be transmen to access women’s toilets is pure fantasy. Most transmen look like boys, for a start. Take *Elliot* Page - she’s 35 but if she packed in the acting and took up teaching, she’d be smaller than virtually all the boys in my son’s year 7 class. Transmen can beef up and lose hair due to all the testosterone but they can’t make themselves grow to normal male heights and they can’t stop having soft skin, soft features, a soft browbone, a soft jaw, no adam’s apple, a curvy shape, and - this is quite the giveaway - they don’t have a penis. Then there’s their voices. Beyond a split-second glance at them where the brain might briefly lazily code their appearance as male due to crude cultural markers of appearance, they do not pass. Women can tell women.
TRAs hate the fact that RadFems and GC women have zero problems with transmen using women’s loos. Why would we? They’re women too. What they look like doesn’t change their biology. Not even surgery and medication changes that. And whatever they want to believe, men do not see them as male. They are not safe in men’s loos. TRAs hate the fact that our acceptance of transmen in our spaces means they can’t claim we want to keep trans people out of them and they’re willing to sacrifice transmen to prove their lie… I wonder why?
Wanting transmen to use men’s loos is as theoretically dangerous as putting transwomen into women’s prisons. It’s putting females into vulnerable situations with males to sacrifice them on the altar of gender ideology, only this time the other way around.
The danger to transmen in male-only spaces is something that people don’t always want to look at, perhaps because transmen seem to be doing it to themselves willingly, but just how “willing” is being so traumatised by patriarchal and gendered expectations that the idea of being female hurts you so much that you have to pretend to yourself that you’re actually male to cope with life?
While transwomen get to be all glam and gorgeous (at least in their own fervid AGP fantasies), hogging all the limelight and sucking up all the oxygen with everyone pretending that they’re beautiful and inspirational and all that shit, without doing much more than badly applying some lippy and alway, always dubiously referring to themselves as ‘girls’, transmen get to mutilate themselves and wreck themselves internally for shortened lives with appalling drugs like Lupron, a drug designed for elderly men with end-stage prostate cancer. The very path of becoming a transman is very particularly and specifically feminine, that’s the irony: it involves so much hatred of self as female, castigation and rejection of the female body, emulation of the masculine in order to be ‘real’ and afforded some sort of agency and humanity.
The Biblical belief that “woman is born to suffer” which permeates Western society is absolutely acted out on the bodies of transmen. Physical suffering and sacrifice are both entirely coded feminine, as is making oneself vulnerable to males, which transmen have to do in such spaces as men’s toilets and changing rooms. Transmen get raped a lot, which TRAs like to brush under the carpet because so much of it happens when they are in situations where no woman would ever usually be alone with men. Their abuse is only possible precisely because gender ideology has facilitated a world where people can pretend that they don’t know what sex others are. It puts women in danger even when they believe they’re men and everyone is meant to pretend they believe it too.
And transmen don’t report or seek help and certainly don’t seek justice, because this would be admitting not only that they are female and have been seen and treated as female in the worst way possible by actual men, but that all The Evil TERFs they have been taught to hate were right about predatory men and female people need to be kept safe from them all along. Bullshit like the nonsense Devon is spewing just alienates transmen further from the only people who seem to be thinking about their safety.
What always breaks my heart about the gender cult is how uncaring it’s made so many women towards other women, how untethered from any real sense of feminism, of sisterhood whatsoever. I’m an old skool RadFem: the accepting of all other women in sisterhood was a conscious, almost spiritual process that is constantly ongoing and evolving, and it is very meaningful to me, and I was always on Team Yuck - BOYS! even as a small child, so the way other women are so gleefully callous towards other women utterly bewilders me. I don’t mean this in a smug, I Am Considerably More Feminist Than You sort of way, I just mean simply that it really upsets me. I don’t get it. Why don’t they care about transmen? Do they like pretending they’re male because it relieves them of the psychological discomfort that internalised misogyny creates when such women support other women?
WHY do people always say this shit? They really think they’re making some cool, enlightened point when really all they’re saying is “meh, creeps are going to get to women and kids if they really want to, so why bother protecting them?”.
Well, I’m going to bother. I’m going to care. My feminism is also for transmen, even if they absolutely don’t want it to be. Not one woman left behind, however she identifies, whatever she does to her body to obliterate as many signs of being female as possible. So sorry, Natasha Devon, transmen are welcome in women’s toilets. You’re just going to have to come up with some other bullshit to placate the great satan Gender. Knowing you, we won’t be waiting long.
(And yes, my feminism is for you too. Sorry, not sorry)