Feeble
The current gender wars are not a fight against the binary roles that constrict our society, instead this particular manifestation of the culture wars is a battle against trans women in particular. Most of the debate concerns what services trans women should or should not be allowed to access, from public toilets to public services.
And why would that be? Because trans women are men, and women need protections from men in certain circumstances.
Perhaps all of this was to be expected, and perhaps it is just part of a larger backlash against the mainstreaming of LGBTQ+ rights over the decades.
No, it isn’t, because “LGBTQ+ rights” aren’t a big pudding, they’re a bag of rocks, and the rocks are not all compatible with each other. The T “rights” aren’t always rights, and the ones that aren’t rights are often in conflict with actual LG rights. The T “rights” are mostly about being ratified as the other sex, and that is in fact not a genuine right, any more than it’s a genuine right for me to identify as two feet tall and get in brawls with toddlers.
This debate may remain contentious for some time, but any lesbian, gay or bisexual person, in particular, supporting the current war on trans people, should remember that while T is near the end of our acronym, the other letters are just further back in the queue.
Uh…okay.
Any talk of the movement going too far, or the community getting too broad is just a shameless display of exclusion, pointing at someone else you think is weirder than you and saying they are the real problem.
No, that’s wrong. It’s just handwaving. There are real issues, and declaring them automatically invalid because the T is near the G is just empty sloganeering.
The Trojan Horse was a clever ruse by the Greeks to infiltrate Troy, so that they could breach the defences. However, unlike the MRAs who invaded the LGB in disguise as T, even Odysseus wasn’t canny enough to tell the Trojans that his small group of elite fighters needed protection from the Greeks even more than the Trojans did. They may have sneaked in; but once in, they fought the Trojans openly as Greeks, and didn’t demand to be protected by the Trojans while they were doing it.
Oh deary me, here I was thinking that it was gender roles that were restricting. Men tough, women caring. Men hunt, women cook and clean. Men talk to god, who lets him know how women should dress, behave, and be docile wives.
Women’s liberation didn’t fight to end the sex binary, it was to set women free from their gendered roles and to make them equal in all aspects of life. And by achieving that, they also helped some men break from their gender assigned roles so they could become better partners to women.
TRAs are intent on enforcing a code of what a woman looks like, how she acts, how she submits, all while ignoring the “lived experience” of actual women. The TRA performance of woman is the same as that desired by MRAs and incels.
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Well, given exclusion is a thing to be avoided at all cost I present LGLGBTQR+. You can’t possibly exclude a sexual minority over a minor matter like their preference for a lack of consent.