Truth be told, I was excited to read and engage with the new TERF piece on medium (https://medium.com/@aytchellis/trans-men-are-men-but-transwomen-are-not-women-7ba7a533e8a5 …) but it's hard to have much to say since I disagree with the premise.
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The foundation of the piece is that trans people's feelings of gender are relevant to what gender they are. But this is a complete nonstarter for me. I don't know what feeling like a gender means, much less find it relevant to whether trans women are women/trans men are men.
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Do cis women feel like women? Heck if I know. How would they even know? How would any of us? I know cis women don't experience gender dysphoria bc A) I've described gender dysphoria to some of them and they don't relate and B) They're not pursuing gender transition.
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Feeling like one gender or another might resonate with some people- trans and cis- but it's not the basis of trans identity or trans rights. The author's just doing that TERF thing where they seize on a superficial aspect of the language and act like they've done a big gotcha.
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