Grrrrr. Now we’re “non-trans women” – a subset of ourselves.
Sneak sneak sneak. Sneak in the “non-trans” bit as if it needs to be spelled out that women are not men who call themselves women. No thank you, that is surplus to requirements; we are women; men who pretend to be women are men.
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Definitely regressive. For so much of human history, we’ve basically been ‘not men’. Now we’re ‘not men’ again, only this time the men we’re not wear dresses and affect a head tilt.
Worse than a subset of yourselves – you are now the negative, the non-, the ones that lack an attribute; trans women are now the positive state, the attribute-havers. What makes this nonsensical as well as insulting is that the trans in trans woman functions as a negating modifier, equivalent to non woman; so you are now non non women.