That's a fair question. But let's say nonblack victims of police violence said they didn't like all this focus
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on race. Wouldn't that be missing the point? Black people, as a class, are more affected. Not exclusively.
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? but black victims are black whereas menstruators are not necessarily women or vice versa. So I guess my question
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should be refined. Are there instances where an *inaccurate* shorthand has helped things?
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bleh, I think I'm failing at being clear, but am basically just interested in how using women over menstruators helps things
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oh, because I think it's important that we maintain "women" as a political class people can use w/o feeling transphobic
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and it is important to refer to that class when discussing things that pertain to it. But how is menstruation one of these?
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I'm not sure of my own thoughts on this, but this seems to be an argument based on the fact that 'women' is 'close enough'
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yeah, I think it's close enough. Like a zillion other political groupings w/far lower correlation
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yeah, which makes things difficult for certain people who are demographically small enough to be smoothed away
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trans health care is a really important issue, but PP mentioning "women" doesn't make it harder for trans folks to access
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I suspect the logic that lets one say that using 'women' doesn't affect trans access would also let one say that using
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'menstruators' doesn't affect people's access to the relevant care
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