There is no “reproductive system” common to females
Good to know.
Each one is a mystery. Some are like coconuts, some are like locomotives, some are like Kansas City, some are like law school, some are like November…it’s all totally various and random and ??????
It’s ironic that so many TRAs consider the gender critical position to be a form of “essentialism” when apparently they believe that any variation from a Perfect Form means that person isn’t truly male or truly female, but something else. Male-male-female-Male, maybe, or female-male-Male-female. I would think the view that there are many variations within each sex would be sufficiently broad.
It reminds me of people who refuse to say what religion they are, describe their beliefs, define God, or even throw out a couple bones to grab ahold of because pinning their spirituality down means it can no longer be grasped on any level, it’s that special and unique. My own reproductive system is now primarily used for opening bottles and signaling in semaphore, but of course the words and concepts in that probably differ from the way you use them.
I think the real question is what is “common to all females” according to these people. If being a “woman” or “female” doesn’t say anything about physical traits, what does it say anything about (and circular definitions and tautologies don’t count)? Why should we keep using words like “man” and “woman”, “male” and “female” at all if the reasons they were coined in the first place are all wrong?
If “woman” (or “man”) didn’t refer to anything outside of someone’s head—not to bodies, not to experiences, not to social roles and expectations (gender)—why would anyone give a rat’s ass? If “woman” only described some ineffable something locked away inside an individual’s mind, what would be the point? Why talk about the harm of misgendering? Why talk about any kind of political movement? There would be nothing at stake.
“I am a blorf. I can’t tell you what a blorf is or what makes someone a blorf or not a blorf. But I know for a fact that I am a blorf. And my being a blorf is key to my identity.”
Surely the medical community should be notified of this?
Should we chuck our copies of Gray’s Anatomy then?
twiliter, Gray’s Anatomy is transphobic. You shouldn’t just chuck it, you should burn it. That way you won’t be guilty of wrongspeak or wrongthink. Or of causing literal violence to a trans person.
what planet are they living on?
Remulac?
Some people ‘know’ that there is a god, they have had a revelation, it can’t be explained. And yet, outside the US this revelation that people claim to have, is not really acted on by politicians and corporations: because it would make them look stupid!
Trans people know something they cannot communicate, that is a revelation. So why isn’t it stupid to base policy and corporate behaviour on it.?
“There is no “reproductive system” common to females.” So um, what is the female sex? This is all very… shaped like itself.
My reproductive system ran away with the mailman in 1987. Since then I’ve made do with a small box, painted red and yellow, filled with marbles and bits of string.
They don’t all work perfectly, Virginia, but evolutionarily speaking, they all have the same purpose. There is one and only one reason reproductive systems evolved: to reproduce.
That’s why they’re called that.
And there are two (and only two) kinds.
Nature is such a TERF.
Exactly. If you go into the emergency room with a problem with your genitals, you will be identified as male or female, in order to properly address whatever issue you are having. Even if there were an ‘other’ box to check on the paperwork, you will still be treated under the current understanding of male-female. The rest is in your head darling, sorry.
Well, you say one and only one reason, but I think perhaps you’re overlooking the utility of jade egg storage.
OB @ 14, that gave me a needed moment of levity today. Thank you.