Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Just a reminder.
Apart from the sting of invalidation, how are transmen and enbies hurt if abortion is treated as a women’s issue?
I think the real pushback against the framing of abortion as a women’s issue is from TiMs. Campaigns for “inclusive” language that erase women by reducing them to body parts and functions is not equally applied to men. That tells you all you need to know about the politics and optics of this “movement.” Men are the Standard; women are the Other. The Other is defined by, and in contrast to the Standard. Can’t go messing with the Standard now, can we? There’s no telling where that… Read the rest