TERF detrans people talk a big game about how many of the people who transition will one day regret the impact it had on their fertility, and the fact they've lost "healthy tissue" that has a "purpose" (feeding a baby). I don't know how you can believe this obsession's feminist
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The obsession these people have with the bodies -- and specifically the reproductive capacity -- of young trans people is unsettling. They don't care about agency. They care about preserving parts & functionality they think trans mascs should want to have, and should want to use
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I've heard them talking about how twenty-two year olds don't have the same priorities & brain development as thirty-somethings... implying that not only should trans healthcare be banned for children, but for literal fucking adults as well.
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I mean hell, I might one day regret not having children when I'm 50, so by their logic I better have some right now just in case!
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(The whole "the brain isn't fully developed until 25 thing" has a lot of very ableist and adultist implications by the way. We shouldn't define who gets to make decisions about their own life based on their brain development. I hope it's self-evident, when I say it that way, why)
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And btw, breasts aren't "for" feeding a baby. Most animals that nurse don't have breasts. If we wanna be evo psych creeps, breasts are secondary sex characteristics on par w buttocks, & evolved when primates started having sex facing one another. but that's not what they're "for"
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It's nonsensical to say that any part of a person's body is "for" any particular thing. Your body is you, it's not an array of objects "for" any purpose. And dividing up one's body mentally into tiny discrete parts is a huge contributor to self-objectification. it's bad for you
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so it's very interesting.... to see these self identified feminist women claim that they want other "women" to feel good in their bodies, and to be free. all while reducing them to their reproductive parts & chests, and objectifying those parts as objects "for" a purpose
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It's amazing how much these supposedly radically feminist gender abolitionists sound & think EXACTLY like the conservative women I grew up around who told me constantly that i'd change my mind about not wanting to have kids, and could conceive of no other way for me to live
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Wauw, that fits really nicely into the far rights playbook with the focus on procreation and babies from the “right” (aka white, cis, straight) mothers. I’m reading an awesome (Danish) book about antifeminism, the far right, violence and gender at the moment, interesting book.
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a lot of TERF ideology comes direct from conservatives and far right places. labeling it feminism is just a tactic to falsely legitimize themselves so they can continue to prey on and attack marginalized groups with less scrutiny
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