Can we find thitherhood?
Again with this crap.
No, they can’t, because trans women are male people, so they can’t be sisters so we can’t find “sisterhood” with them. Men are not our sisters. That’s not some terrible thing, it’s just reality. White people shouldn’t run around flapping their hands and trying to force people of color to accept us as fellow people of color because we’re not. Same with women.
What ever happened to “respect boundaries”? Wasn’t that a thing for awhile?
I just watched (well, listened to, really) a new video from one of my favorite youtube channels, TheraminTrees, on the subject of how abusers command the love of their victims. Although the focus of the video is religious nonsense, he does also speak about pseudoscience, political groups, and personal relationships. The whole time through I kept mapping his observations to the strident voices in the trans rights movement.
All that is to say that there can be no respect for boundaries from a narcissistic abuser. All that is allowed is the continual performance and repetition of affirmation. All that you can do is give them the love and sisterhood that they demand. And it will never be enough.
Or you can resist.
Such dishonest framing. The gender critical position is not about ranking people in terms of importance, it is about separating sex from gender – biology from culture and feelings – and proceeds from there.
Forgive me, but this sprang immediately to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo3MLJL8xvI
A comment on that tweet:
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It’s in the goddamn word. How can this be so difficult?
I would be happy to do that once the rest of the world stops discriminating against women based on genitals, as well as menstruation, child-bearing, and other things commonly associated with the definition of womanhood.