Center someone else, anyone else
Amnesty centers trans rights on International Women’s Day.
Trans rights are women’s rights are human rights. It’s that simple.
No. Women’s rights are women’s rights. We get to have our own rights, and we get to keep the emphasis there just like any other subordinated group. Imagine a poster that shouted
TRANS RIGHTS
ARE
BLACK RIGHTS
ARE
HUMAN RIGHTS
Wouldn’t that seem like the usual clueless white people changing the subject problem? Wouldn’t it seem like an obnoxious intrusion into someone else’s struggle in order to talk about a different struggle that is more fashionable right now?
Women’s rights are women’s rights. Trans people have other concerns, and they don’t always overlap with women’s concerns, to put it mildly. Women don’t have to share their rights any more than anyone else. Yes, we know we’re supposed to be Universal Mommy and share everything with everyone, but we say fuck that, we’ll have rights instead. Amnesty doesn’t get to decide we can’t.
Just non-specified ‘trans’? That suggests that the men who say they’re women get to claim women’s rights because of the ‘transwomen are women’ mantra, but women who say they’re men also get to claim women’s rights because they’re still women who ‘identify’ otherwise.
So apparently transwomen are women and transmen are women. Yet we’re also told that transwomen aren’t men and transmen aren’t women. Which has me wondering – where does this leave the transotters?
TRANSOTTERS ARE OTTERS. PERIOD.
There. Answered your question.
Now that you mention it, every one of the obnoxious shouty trans people I have seen barging in to other spaces has been white and male. Hmmmm.
When do Louis Farrakhan and HAMAS show up to ‘intersectionalize’ Women’s Day?