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- Jul 8, 2020
Agreed. The key is the ambiguity. Soundbytes don't really have a lot of space for exceptions and clauses. The mantra, the public statement, is "trans women are women/trans men are men". Even if this is code for 90% of allies for "sure, as long as you're not involving me in your fetishes or flashing people in public or expecting guaranteed sex with me, you try your best to pass/stealth, and you keep to yourself, then whatever", there's enough wiggle room to just interpret it as a blanket acceptance and equivalency under all circumstances.There's a huge gap between "transwomen should be allowed to live as women as long as they're not hurting anyone" and "transwomen are actually women."
Almost nobody I know buys the latter, but that's the hill the troons decided to die on. If they keep pushing it, we'll push back.
The only people I've seen who buy the latter are other trans/NB people who are in deep. I've even talked to some MTF/FTMs who don't buy into the whole thing. I've noticed if you push nicely, most cis LGB people have deep reservations about the whole thing. They just don't want to be labelled as a TERF because TERF in common lefty parlance = "I want trans people to commit/die/be arrested/have no human rights", which is much more serious of a stance to align yourself with than "I think that 16 year olds shouldn't be on poorly researched hormone treatment" or "I don't think you should be forced to have sex with someone whose genitals you're not into" or even "I think you should be diagnosed professionally with something before you have essential organs removed", which is where your average ally liberal/non-trans lefty probably lies. If only there was more education on the subject, more gray areas, and it wasn't a game of "you're 100% with us or you're against us".