Universal rule
As long as I’m on the subject…exploring the Texas ACLU Facebook led me to the page of The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity. Guess what: they too refuse to say “women.” (And what tf is reproductive equity?) It’s all people who are pregnant, abortion care for Texans, yadda yadda. “Women” is a filthy word and absolutely must never be used under any circumstances.
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It’s a universal rule.
Does that include transabortions? Sounds tricky to me. Could easily turn into a trans-disaster.
And after all, doesn’t the slogan say Trans Women Are Women,? And aren’t women the sex that gets pregnant, or have I missed something in my own education.?
Just goes to show, times change and biology changes along with them. Next it will be trans-camels, trans-giraffes, and trans-rabbits.
Freudian slip? Kind of gave the game away, there. Love and kindness for men, none left for women, natch.
That’s why I included it! I think it’s pretty striking – total erasure of women to the point of calling women “you guys.”
Trans rights and reproductive rights are not even marginally related. Reproductive rights have to do with reproduction, and trans is NOT about that. Contraception, period care – all of that can fall under the umbrella. Ultrasounds are relevant. But trans is the thing that is not like the others, and doesn’t belong.
In fact, trans care may often render reproductive rights irrelevant.
The deliberate, calculated erasure of women* in discussing a risk and danger that is exclusively borne by females conduces to nothing good, right, or just. However much trans identified females declare that “Men get pregnant too!”, the primary beneficiaries of the decoupling of “woman” from the quintessentially female experiences of menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing are trans identified males. If the definition of “woman” is no longer connected to its biological foundations, then “womanhood” is up for grabs by others (i.e. men) who had no hope at all of ever meeting the original, ironclad, physiological criteria. If they had their way, the only “real” women would be men.
*It’s ironic that trans activists are always accusing women fighting for their rights of doing so for no other reason than hateful bigotry against trans people, and a pathological desire to hurt or kill them. But in order for these charges to stick, we have to believe that every feminist statement is a coded message or dogwhistle, that women’s spirited defence of their rights and spaces is in fact to be seen as nothing less than the denial of trans people’s right to exist, and a call for outright trans genocide. With the complete removal of the word “woman” from communications about abortion rights, no such imaginitively delusional mental gymnastics, or paranoid code-breaking is needed to read the signal. It’s out in the open. The careful circumlocutions and meticulous rewording to excise the word “woman” completely makes the message loud and clear. Women’s concerns aren’t just secondary, they are nowhere; they are invisible. As they should be.
This has gone beyond rudeness and spite and is now simply policy; a policy of misogynistic contempt. The ACLU are now the baddies. I believe that this deliberate, malicious erasure was the whole point of the communication, a show of power and intimidation. You can’t really be interested in defending the rights of someone you refuse to even name.
And where are all of the self-proclaimed champions of ‘inclusion”, the opponents of colonialism? What is more exclusionary or colonial than writing women out of their own rights movement? How come the roaring silence? Oh yes, they’re all busy helping the ACLU reword its communications in order to turn women into un-persons. Though at this point, being True Believers, it’s likely become second nature to them, and takes no effort whatsoever. Self-policing and self-censorship are no longer necessary. It’s baked into the organization’s ethos. They don’t love Big Brother; they are Big Brother.