35/ Which is that some of the objections to permitting trans women into certain aspects of female spheres may HAVE MERIT and we should talk about that because it’s important.
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36/ And to do that properly we have to examine why those gender differentiations exist in the first place and to what degree trans women as a broad category fit or don’t fit the criteria there, without denying them dignity and access to other appropriate spheres in the process.
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37/ And also acknowledging that people are different and needs are different and that a 16-yo who began her transition last week will be very different from a 40-yo who transitioned 20 years ago, which is also part of the problem of discussions around this without clarity.
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38/ All this to say I find it very grating when people use the “trans women are women” argument as a blanket wedge to demand access to spaces without respect to how the people in those spaces may feel about it. This serves no one and looks tactless and rude...
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39/ And unfortunately this is very common and even more unfortunately is an exceptionally male pattern way of interacting which often the person making the demand is wholly unaware of.
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40/ Because if I’m going to generalize here, women tend to be much more consensus and permission driven than men in our culture and ESPECIALLY in social settings and to demand access to female spaces you have not been invited into is not something most cis women get away with.
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41/ So it’s ironic to think we could claim a female social role and than expect people to be cool with immediately turning around and violating a really common norm of female interaction by using that identity to take rather than ask for acceptance.
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42/ And now I’m really veering off into something that could basically be a whole book on its own so I won’t spend too much more time unpacking it... but all this to say that I think the proxy battle is a necessary one for trans people.
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43/ And yet the necessity of it doesn’t mean that it’s okay to abuse it as a means to avoid the more nuanced discussions of boundaries that we really ought to have respect for. Chesterton’s Fence is there for a reason.
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i didnt like every tweet in the thread but only because there were a Lot of them and you should not look for any kind of pattern good thread
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
I desperately want a "like whole thread" button
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