Who shouts the loudest
Survivors’ Network proudly announces it is throwing women to the wolves:
We have recently received a huge increase in attention and interest in our inclusion of trans women in our women-only services. We are happy to make it explicitly clear: Survivors’ Network recognises trans women as women, and we welcome them to use all of our services.
You might as well say you recognize wolves as daffodils. Trans women are men, and they don’t belong in women-only services, especially those for survivors.
We know, through groundbreaking research, that trans people are disproportionately impacted by sexual violence, and we consider a trans inclusive feminism to be key to our values and central to our service as the Rape Crisis Centre for Sussex.
They “know” something that isn’t true (and what is this “groundbreaking research”?): women are the people most affected by sexual violence, not trans people.
Our policies will not be changed by who shouts the loudest.
Shouts the loudest? Really? Louder than Morgan Oger, louder than Rachel McKinnon, louder than the Degenderettes with their axes and threats?
So women in Brighton won’t be able to go there for help.
Even if “women” really were something you could identify as (or identify into), how does it make sense to provide the same services to trans women and women? Don’t they (clearly) have different experiences, different needs, different issues?
Woke up, Ben. Transwomen are women and always have been – they were girls from birth, don’tcha know – and are identical in all respects, physical, biological, and psychological, to those boring, old-fashioned, actual women. So because they’re women they cannot by definition have different needs, experiences, and issues to women, can they? That’s translogic, is what that is, and it’s the best form of logic because shut up and stop murdering us with words and reality.
Because, of course, women are such a monolithic group that we all have the same physical, biological, and psychological needs.
Well…let’s not overstate:
[self-declared] ‘trans women’ include misogynist men.
It doesn’t seem possible to know what non-screaming types might actually think or feel. Bill Donohue doesn’t really speak for actual Catholics after all.
But thinking and feeling isn’t determinative of material reality. One can think one “feels like” anything; it doesn’t follow that one actually is that thing, except in cases where the feeling is the thing (“I feel like someone who feels sad/happy/whatever.”) Feeling like something is a very fuzzy or even woolly concept anyway. There’s no such thing as “feeling like a woman,” there are only billions of women each with her own experience and feelings.