Guest post: Exactly zero work
Guest post by Josh Slocum
Lesbians and gays had to ask, beg, plead, protest, and keep it all up for decades just to get:
- The right not to be fired for being gay
- The right not to be evicted for being gay
- The right to participate in the same tax incentive system that straight married people had
That’s all. That’s all we asked for. Nothing that took from, or imposed on, anyone else.
Trans comes along and is required to do exactly zero work. All they have to do is be a straight man in a wig and scream that they’re oppressed, and instantly laws are changed to make women’s space their legal property.
This is fucking obscene.
Yes.
Here’s something else which I find puzzling:
A transvestite, a gay man wearing makeup, and a trans woman enter a not very dark alley. A group of angry men appears, and they snarl “Men should dress and act like men” as they begin to roll up their sleeves and take out the brass knuckles. Then the trans woman cries “ But I’m a trans man and a trans man is a woman, period! ” The men apologize — women can dress and act like women — and they now focus instead only on the first two. Suddenly they notice a gender-critical feminist poster on the wall which states “ A trans woman is a man who identifies as a woman.” Heads snap around — what? The bullies change their minds, and instead of beating just the transvestite and the gay man to a pulp, they attack all three.
This is how gender critical feminism literally provokes violence against transsexuals. At least, it’s the best I can think of. Apparently the other gender critical feminist poster — the one saying “Men and Women should all dress and behave however they want” — doesn’t count.
Josh, well put.
I’m reading Martin Duberman’s book “Has the Gay Movement Failed?”, and he talks at some length about the conflicts within the movement between those who wanted access to the institutions of society (what you describe here) and those who wanted to dismantle those institutions. I confess I hadn’t really thought about it before except in the most vague terms. I see conflict within every movement I currently follow, and so it should be totally unsurprising to see conflict in the early gay movement. Nor had I thought much about dismantling certain institutions (such as marriage), except in vague terms. The book has been illuminating.
I agree that it is astounding how fast trans activists have been able to get traction in the legal system for their demands, notably the access to women’s resources. How the hell did that happen?
Sastra, nail, head.
I’ve been pointing this out for years. The people who parrot this nonsense don’t even notice that they’re throwing gender-nonconforming people who DON’T identify as trans under the bus.
I’m sure you mean “But I’m a trans woman and a trans woman…” etc.
@ Lady Mondegreen #3
Oops, yes. My mistake.
Unless a trans man was also in that not very dark alley, in disguise, and the plot has thickened.
Or is a trans man a transwoman?