Words have to mean what they mean
Even now the ACLU is promoting its stupid all-trans all the time babble on Facebook. They’re obsessed. I’ll never understand why. Maybe because they missed out on the earlier struggles and want to experience something like them? But it’s a hiding to nothing, because the trans issue isn’t like Civil Rights or feminism or lesbian and gay rights or the peace movement. They want it to be but it isn’t. One it’s a tiny fraction of any population, and two it’s fictitious, and three it’s unavoidably narcissistic. People who aren’t narcissists don’t consider their personal discomforts worth a political campaign, let alone one that destroys the rights of women and lesbians and gays. It just doesn’t work to try to gin up political fervor about bratty narcissists telling other people what pronouns to use.
Anyway. Their wisdom:
Trans women are women.
Bad beginning. No they’re not. And as always, it’s just women they push around. They don’t bother to say Trans men are men. New boss exactly like the old boss – and they can’t even see it.
“Cisgender women should be concerned whenever an alleged concern for ‘protecting’ our well-being is invoked to justify exclusion.” — Shayna Medley & Galen Sherwin
Exclusion of what though? Of men from the class “women.” That is, of course, not “exclusion” in any pejorative sense, it’s just reality. It’s not “exclusion” to pat the dog instead of the table or the window, it’s just knowing what is what. There is nothing invidious about “excluding” men from the category “women.” The ACLU can keep its thoughts about “protecting” women to itself, because they’re bad and destructive.
Trans people have always been here.
They don’t know that. How would they know that?
“Trans people are not new. We have always been here. As long as there’s been recorded human history, we have always existed. But we have been written out of the human story — and when you come from a community that is without a full range of possibility models, it raises the question, in yourself as well as others, of whether or not you deserve rights or a place in society.”
If trans people have been written out of the human story, how do they and the ACLU know they’ve always been here?
You couldn’t make it up. “We’ve always been here, and we know this because there’s no record of it.”
It’s sad. There isn’t much time left, and apparently what little there is is going to be spent replacing women with petulant men talking about their pronouns.
Lia Thomas is literally the most unprivileged person to ever walk the planet. Never mind that nobody is trying to kill him or rape him; never mind that he’s allowed to swim on the men’s team AND the women’s team, whichever he wants; never mind that whole organizations and governments bend over backwards to let him cheat women out of prizes and traumatize them by having erections in their changing rooms — never mind all that: when he does the last of these, a few people on the internet question his right to do so, and that questioning is the most dehumanizing, deprivilegizing thing ever.
And therefore, the ACLU must fight for his rights.
It’s all there in The Rocky Horror Show: “I’m the trans-sexual, transvestite, from Transylvania.!” To which I would add: “With a trans-erectile, trans-penile, trans-donger for you to contemplate / in your formerly trans-exclusive changeroom, washroom or dunny;/ risen as from the briny deep, / to make sure you get no trans-free sleep./ Don’t think I’m just trying to be trans-funny.”
I reckon it would probably run for ten years on Broadway. Then there are the film rights to consider. As soon as I can get out of here, i’m going to put in an order for a gold-plated trans-Rolls-Royce. Hang the expense.
Omar, I was going to say that is trans-funny, but it actually is hilarious! Thank you!
What I meant to say:
Omar, I was going to say that is trans-funny, but that could be misinterpreted; it actually is hilarious! Thank you!
<blockquote<“We’ve always been here, and we know this because there’s no record of it.”
This is exactly the ‘reasoning’ that conspiracy theorists use to justify their continued belief in their pet conspiracy, despite being unable to find any evidence to support it. If they cannot find any evidence, the ‘conspirators’ must be really, really good at hiding it.
Dammit, I can’t type (or proof-read) in this condition. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Ophelia, for your editing skills, should you feel like employting them.
That’s easy. There are lots of historical accounts of people stepping out of strict gender roles: men wearing dresses or fleeing from battles, women speaking out in public or fighting with an army. Out of all these examples the odds are huge that some, many, or maybe even all were transgender.
Did any historian ever have the guts to say that? They did not.
Oppressors.