Making it about him
Man brags about inserting himself into an abortion rights protest.
He shouldn’t be “really proud” of that. He should be really ashamed of it. He doesn’t need abortion rights, he’s not a woman, the war on abortion rights isn’t a war on him, he should sit down and be quiet.
The guy’s argument is that when one aspect of body autonomy is threatened, the entire concept of body autonomy is threatened, hence this looming abortion access crisis threatens all bodies implicitly. But this simply sidesteps the point: the crisis, and the rallies in response to it, are about the specific instance of women’s bodies and abortion, rather than being about the general concept of body autonomy.
There is also the history body autonomy pre-dating the current crisis. Looking back in time, we can see that the bodies that have a history of being the most controlled have been… female. Not solely of course, but even in times when people could be property that could be put to work, the female bodied ones were property that could be put to work and were sex receptacles (as opposed to participants) and baby makers.
The history of body autonomy was slanted against female bodies, and the current crisis is entirely about female bodies. Trans women can pull their fucking heads in.
If trans women want to tie ‘bodily autonomy’ to their own fights, fine–bring it up at gatherings of transwomen, and stress that they need to fight for women’s right to an abortion, even if none of them will ever need it. Bleating on at women about how transwomen benefit from the women’s fight is just… blergh.