Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Arty’s Just how creative expression works.
…the trans movement doesn’t want male and female to be completely arbitrary categories, it wants them to be just a little bit tweaked so that a few outliers can sneak into the other camp. It wants the categories of male and female to remain relatively intact, stereotypes and all, with just a small change: let the “special ones” truly and completely cross the aisle.
Exactly. When it comes down to it, trans activists don’t even want “equality” amongst themselves. Cheating males lose their advantage if women’s teams are flooded by too many other males claiming to be women. Why is it that male sex offenders who suddenly “discover” their “trans” status in prison want to be moved to female only prisons? Because they are full of female prisoners. If they are followed by other opportunistic, predatory males like themselves, they’re back where thay started, back in a male prison. They don’t want that, do they?
Without actual female human beings who are forced to accept them in their spaces, TiMs don’t get to have the thrill of “being” women, and among women, taking women’s awards and spaces and making women accept it. The sex offenders don’t get to continue assaulting women while imprisoned. Mediocre males don’t get to win so easily (or at all) if too many mediocre males “discover” they’re trans.
This is why third spaces, specifically for trans identified people, have been non-starters for trans activists. They don’t want to be shunted aside and ghettoized as “trans”, they want to invade women’s spaces as “women.” They want to blend in with women, but make sufficient noise about it that they are still seen as “special” or “more than” everyone else. They still want their Days/Months/Years of Pronouns/Visibility/Remembrance/Victimhood/Martyrdom. They “just want to live their lives like everyone else,” while reminding EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME, that they exist, and the world OWES THEM constant linguistic vigilance and self-policing, attention, remembrance for non-existent victims of a non-existent war, all to the drum-beat of emotional blackmail of threats of suicide if any of the above is questioned. How one blends in while pushing themselves into the spotlight is anyone’s guess, but our role in allofthis is to let them keep us in shadow. In parallel with their simultaneous craving for both anonymity and visibility, they continue to claim vulnerability and marginalization while having been handed unearned, disproportionate power, influence, and “rights” by the organs of government, industry, and civil society.
It’s not just those wanting to “switch teams” who are out for themselves in this way. Precious, special EnBees lose their special status if everybody is liberated from Gender Jail. They only want to break their own chains, while leaving everyone else imprisoned. Without dull, boring, unimaginative cis people to serve as a backdrop, they can’t stand out from the grey mob of conformist schlubs that they’ve been clever enough to rise above.
For those who believe that their pronouns are the most interesting and important thing about themselves, I can almost see how they would translate doubts about “transness” and “gender identity” into denials of “their right to exist.” Without them, they would have to actually go out and do something to easrn respect, rather than simply expect and demand it.