It’s all in the hips

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Ophelia Benson

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“Author David Thomas still lives as a man, but has begun the male-to-female transition that will eventually result in becoming a woman.”

It won’t you know. It can’t. It doesn’t. It won’t. A man can’t “become” a woman. You can call it the male-to-female transition all you want, but it still won’t result in becoming a woman. Not even eventually. Not ever. This isn’t because we’re too mean to open the door of the club house, it’s because that’s not how it works.

But hey, I’m sure if he “learns to stand and walk like a woman” no one will ever suspect that he’s a man, because having a special dainty but seductive way of standing and walking is just that crucial to the whole thing.

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4 responses to “It’s all in the hips”

  1. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    Proving yet again that the trans view is that femaleness is perfomative.

  2. Screechy Monkey Avatar
    Screechy Monkey

    For consistency’s sake, shouldn’t “walking like a woman” just mean “walking while you believe yourself to be a woman”? If David has declared himself a trans woman, then he is a woman and therefore walks like a woman, talks like a woman, and has a woman’s penis. So what learning is required?

  3. Skeletor Avatar
    Skeletor

    Interesting that Thomas doesn’t seem to be on board with transwomen competing in women’s sports:

    Before I go any further, I have bad news to report. I may no longer be eligible to compete as a woman at the Tokyo Olympics.

    You might ask, ‘How could a shortsighted sexagenarian with no obvious sporting talent qualify for Tokyo 2020, irrespective of their gender?’ But that’s just a hopelessly un-woke, ‘OK boomer’ way of looking at things.

    As of six months ago, my testosterone reading had sunk so low that I was qualified to compete as a woman, under International Olympic Committee rules. Naturally, I intended to exercise that right and was ready to take on Team GB if it refused to select me. In the Brave New World of 2019, I, as an Official Trans Person, am apparently absolutely entitled to do whatever I want, wherever and whenever I want, in whatever gender I choose – and anyone who tries to stop me is just a transphobic bigot, so yah boo sucks!

    Now, however, a new set of blood tests has revealed that my plucky Y-chromosome appears to be leading a fightback against the female hormones invading my body. Despite six more months of HRT patches, my oestrogen level is down by 15 per cent and my testosterone has quadrupled, albeit from a very low base. Dammit, I’m no longer a sportswoman!

    (Emphasis added.)

  4. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    A lot of medication, effort, training and performance to become who he “really” is.

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