The word "woman" is officially a swearword; using it is considered transphobic and uninclusive when discussing aspects of healthcare that only apply to women. Why don't they do this to men?
The names they call us
I'm not even joking, just look at what is going on:
Vaccination Considerations for People who are Pregnant or Breastfeeding
...affecting people with uteruses
Menstruators Need More Than Something to Bleed On
Individuals with a cervix are now recommended to start cervical cancers screening
‘Do Vulva Owners Like Sex?’ Is the Wrong Question
"Good" women are supposed to shut up and put up with this in the name of inclusivity but you may have noticed that prostate owners and people with testicles are not expected to. Not at all, this only goes one way and to my utter surprise, many women have gone all Aunt Lydia and are busily tarring those of us who point this out with the bigot brush as woe betide us if we use a name for ourselves as a discrete sex class. Thankfully some people are paying attention to the fact that the vast majority of us are not having it but it comes at the cost of being regarded as transphobic.
Get a Clue
Fertility tracker app maker Clue are trying to deliver a service to as diverse a range of women as possible, some of whom have identified as male.
Instead of designing for specific user personas or an abstract idea of a "woman," Clue is designed to be happy, quick to use and to help in the discovery of accurate insights. We believe these apply to all our millions of users, regardless of gender.
In the 100+ pages of scientifically supported text in the English version of Clue — that covers topics of menstrual health, fertility, common medical conditions, PMS/PME, sex, breasts, ovaries, vaginas and so many other topics — we never once refer to "women" or "female." (Other languages present unique challenges when it comes to gendered language, but we are working on improving this, too.)
We did that as an effort to be accurate toward our users, not as an effort to be "politically correct." When making decisions about the language we use, we feel confident that accuracy is a good foundation upon which to build.
...After considering all the various options, we have chosen to call the area that Clue serves "female health." We feel it best captures the area of health that Clue is currently designed to support, while being the least exclusive of all the ways to describe that biology. We also feel it is the best option in terms of communication and accessibility — in other words, we hope our community will understand the rationale behind this choice when this term is used in our communications.
You will also see us using the phrase "women and people with cycles" as a way to address our largest user segment (over 95% of our users identify as "women") without being exclusive of those who don't use that term. - Accessibility and gendered language at Clue, by Mike LaVigne and Lisa Kennelly for Clue
This is the minefield that gender identity ideology creates. Why are we obliged to pander to a very tiny segment of the population as if other people didn't exist? The way I see it if you opt out of the default by choosing to identify as something else while carrying out functions associated with that default, e.g. giving birth, you have no right to complain about not being included in articles aimed at women. Those people who demand to be included are usually pretending that men can give birth because that's their gender identity. Big whoop. I'll have a lot more sympathy with that position when I see men reduced to "people with prostates." So why aren't they? Because it's not about including non-binary people and trans men, it's about protecting the delicate feelz of trans women, i.e. men who identify as women.
It's a sausage fest
The woke and the wonderful will never be able to bring themselves to admit to this but gender identity activism only goes one way. Anyone who wants to argue otherwise can bring me the receipts of groups of women aggressively disrupting meetings and protests by men campaigning for their rights or healthcare. I'll be waiting for a while for those. Meanwhile, let's look at what happens when women want things for themselves as a sex class.
Pink pussy hats
The Women's March is back in 2018 with its Power to the Polls anniversary protests on the weekend of Jan. 20-21. The focus during this Women's March reboot is to register more women to vote, and to elect women and progressive candidates to public office.
But this time when marchers take to the streets in cities from Lansing to Las Vegas, there could be fewer pink pussyhats in the crowds.
The reason: The sentiment that the pink pussyhat excludes and is offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don't have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink. - Pink pussyhats: The reason feminists are ditching them, by Kristen Jordan Shamus for Detroit Free Press
Every woman's genitals are pink on the inside. Stop it, this is about protecting the delicate man feelz of male people who claim to be women.
Period poverty
Mx Blundell said periods were made worse for trans people by the link often made between menstruation and femininity or womanhood.
"Conflating [trans and non-binary peoples'] experiences with womanhood when that's not what it is can be quite invalidating," he said.
"It does also exclude trans women from the notion of womanhood as well, and that is discriminatory." - Women aren't the only ones who menstruate. This is why the Period Pack movement is using inclusive language, by Yasmin Jeffery for Heywire
What people today call "gender identity" is what the rest of us call "personality." That's why there are hundreds of them. "Non-binary" people are non-conforming/androgynous and that's okay, we don't need to make a big fuss about it. Wait... yes we do. We need to make a huge fuss about it or the world will come to an end.
We can't even have the words "woman" or "female" as someone (usually male) might find it offensive. Again, this does not happen to men. While some woke writers might use "penis-owners" the official outlets won't.
Why are they doing this?
Take a wild guess.
And this proves what? That there are idiots everywhere? I already knew that.
— Prairie Girl (@kid_prairie) January 28, 2021
This person's deranged opinion means nothing. Maybe they need therapy
I told Prairie Girl she'd be saying the same thing six months from now because that is the endgame of the gender identity movement.
It's not for transsexuals
Anyone who buys into the idea that this movement is all about protecting a tiny minority of people who alter their gender presentation with hormones and surgery to make their bodies match their perception of themselves is a dupe. The clue is in the fact that "transsexual" is considered offensive by people who include cross-dressers and other fetishists under the trans umbrella. Meanwhile, actual transsexuals are having none of it. Read through this thread:
Well if it's not for them, who is it for?
Well it's not for detransitioners, that's for sure. It's not for transsexuals as they're too few in number, hence the insistence that "transsexual" is offensive. Nope, it's for this motley lot:
You see, the more (how shall I put this?) outright weirdos that embrace GenderWooWoo, the more potential there is for medical entrepreneurs to take advantage of their desire for bespoke bodies, and this, dear friends, is a growing market. As the range of identities increases, the way such people want to present themselves will increase too. As long as they have the cash, they can have the surgeries. Needless to say, pharmaceutical companies are salivating at the thought of countless thousands of gender-confused people being dependent on hormones and medication for decades. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
I'd do no more than twitch an eyebrow and say, "Horses for courses" if it was only about grown-up adults wanting to do this but they're going after kids. Despite the fact that the Tavistock admitted to not keeping records, doing any follow-up, and basically experimenting on kids, the most surprising people are defending them and hoping they win their appeal against the Bell case. Okay, not surprising. There is literally no women-only place these people won't try to get into and make all about them in the name of inclusivity. And people go along with it.
What can we do?
Anyone who wants to be kind will no doubt be drawn to the gender identity side because they think they're being drawn to the Billie Lee side of the story; "Man trapped in woman's body needs to be rescued from horrible people who won't accept them as they are." However, they're forgetting that they don't all pass like Billie does. Here's Joe Biden's pick for Assistant Secretary of Health:
Bear in mind that the story now is that one doesn't have to be dysphoric to be considered trans. If that's true, the ones who don't have dysphoria are not vulnerable. This also allows fetishists to claim trans identity and thereby claim the exemptions and special considerations we afford to those who do have dysphoria. Oh, and it's no longer necessary to make any changes; you can keep the beard, etc. So, to nobody's surprise, this happens:
— John (@johnt0709) January 8, 2021
Well I'm not having it: this twerp is not a woman. The whole "A woman is anyone who says they are" is bogus, a con on the particularly stupid based on the lie that they're all vulnerable and will try to fit in. The only way to combat this is to keep sharing these truths:
- a woman is an adult human female; her body is organised to produce large gametes, i.e. ova, whether ovaries and a uterus are present or not. There is no third gamete so sex is not a spectrum
- "Trans" is an umbrella that covers a range of identities including cross-dressers per Stonewall
- predatory men are abusing trans identity to get at women and girls
- the vast majority of "trans" people are white male fetishists; transsexuals are a tiny minority within that set
- transsexuals are routinely vilified as "truscum" by the fetishists
- lesbians and gay men are being targeted by members of the opposite sex and are labelled transphobic for saying no to them. See "cotton ceiling" and "boxer ceiling" for details
- puberty blockers are not reversible and result in stunted growth and development. They were meant to be used for precocious puberty, not normal puberty. They are untested and experimental
- most children, if treated on a watchful waiting basis, will grow out of gender dysphoria and end up gay or nonconforming
- playing with gendered toys does not mean kids are trans
- records on regret and detransitioning are not kept by design. To get an idea of their numbers check out the detransitioner websites and crowdfunders for reconstructive surgery
- gender-affirming hormone therapy is still experimental. Little is known about the long-term effects
I've been doing this to great effect in my activism: when writing to MPs, etc., I get all of those talking points in there. Write to your representatives, get involved in public consultations, join a GC group, and get the word out.
What about trans folk?
Many of them are on our side. Find out who they are and befriend them; they get hammered by both their own community and by intersectional feminists who call them quislings and bootlickers.
I bear trans folk no ill will. The way I see it, identify however you like, dress how you please and sleep with whoever will have you. What you don't get to do is take away our word for ourselves, take over our stuff and make it all about you, and bully us into submitting to this. Anyone who is willing to live in peace with the rest of us will have my full, unwavering support. It's the misogynist bullies and their grovelling handmaidens that I have no time for. I will not bow to misogynist astro-turfed transactivism. Who's with me?
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