Man Feeling Questions on Trans
I am going to admit to being the world’s worst blogger. I never do it. But I made a video!
Edition 21: Ancient Gynocentric Societies
Give this a listen! The last segment is earth shattering!!
Photo of Babylonia, goddess Ishtar or Ereshkigal ‘Queen of the Night’ 18th C. BC by monopthalmos on flickr.
Greetings and Happy New Year! The team at WLRN is proud to share our first podcast of 2018, Edition 21: Ancient Gynocentric Societies.
This edition focuses on the developments and relics of woman-centric societies throughout history. Our guests Max Dashu, Riane Eisler, and Starhawk shared what they know about the herstories of woman-centric communities.
Now is the perfect time to set a feminist resolution for the year ahead: let us move forward in strength and sisterhood toward a more gynocentric future!
This month’s podcast starts with a friendly introduction by Amanda. Next comes WLRN’s world headlines written and read by Thistle. “Night Woman” by Carolyn Hillyer’ segues into Sekhmet SheOwl’s interview with Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives. Then we hear excerpts from Julia’s interview with Starhawk, ecofeminist…
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Trans Ideology is Anti Girl
I’m working through ideas about transgenderism and was prompted to say a few things after seeing a post on Facebook where the Women’s March is making sure to include males that identify as women. I feel betrayed by the handmaidens in politics and policy that have had the freedom to think about what transgenderism will mean for women and girls going forward and have continued to peddle it to us. I’m especially disgusted that it is being linked to defending sex work, again, where women and girls are sacrificed for the satisfaction of male lust. This kind of male lust is not inherently justified in being fulfilled since it requires the participation of another person.
In order to believe that a man-socialized adult male isn’t just capable of being a woman, but is a woman simply on the basis of his say so, one must pretend girlhood itself doesn’t exist. Girlhood is the process by which women come to learn that their role in this world is one of subservience and inferiority, this requires a breaking of the human spirit. Girlhood is the way society brainwashes girls and takes advantage of their vulnerability for continued male advantage. Girlhood is the way you have to spend hours starting in middle school learning to shave your legs and put on makeup while the the boys get to play videogames. Girlhood is when you realize walking down the street will never be safe for you like it is for a man.
For transwomen to come to be women in adulthood, especially after their bodies have developed into those of men, and thusly often retain both male safety privilege and socialization privilege, and assume they know what that experience is and has always been is not just an insult to women, but girls too. Men and boys cannot know what the oppression of women and girls is and has always been. We are at a critical time where transwomen are standing in the way of eradicating those dangerous and traumatic experiences from girls lives outright by insisting that gender roles must stay in place because they are somehow innate.
We’re being gaslit into pretending girlhood didn’t happen, or that if and when it did, it’s because we wanted it. This is the anti girl power, it must end so we can create girlhoods that are worthy of our daughters.
How I became a “TERF”
For a trans exclusionary radical feminist I consider myself pretty inclusive of trans people. I’ve always thought that every human being deserves basic human rights including things like equal access to employment and housing. I’ve also thought that human rights include the right to move freely in public spaces without fear of threats, harassment, or assault of any kind. I was positive I was doing my job to promote the interests of the transgender community until I was called a TERF when I made a Facebook post indicating that I would not support centering transwomen in the women’s movement.
The argument I made, and I still stand by, is that transwomen face very serious obstacles in life and in moving about in the world. However, the difficulties they experience are not fully inclusive of the experiences of women, and they therefore wouldn’t be good representatives for women in the political arena. Examples of things that are obviously central to the notion of “womanhood,” and are fundamental to our shared systematic oppression, that transwomen would not identify with and would not be predisposed to advocate on are issues of menstruation, abortion, and childbirth.
I’ve spent some time looking at the way the progressive left is treating transgenderism and it is accepting it unconditionally. This is problematic because a lot of transgenderism relies on self-identification, which has very serious implications for women. The transgender lobby is seeking to eliminate even the need for confirmation of sex change surgeries for transgender people seeking to change the sex on their legal identification documents. The result of this could be that males that identify as transwomen gain access to women-only spaces and programs, without having to demonstrate that they’ve changed their bodies accordingly.
Something else I found extremely disturbing when I began to research transgenderism is the fact that people, especially gays and lesbians are being told they are “transphobic,” if they refuse to date or sleep with someone on the basis of their physical sex. This is a form of sexual coercion where people are being guilted into dating or sleeping with certain people for fear that if they don’t they will be labeled “transphobic.” My understanding is this line of reasoning goes so far among transgenderists that some believe it is transphobic for a lesbian to refuse penetrative vaginal intercourse with a woman-identifying individual. That opened my eyes to how far males are willing to go to impose their bodies on women and has moved me to action.
This has become a moment where women need to begin to take note of what is going on within mainstream feminism and educate themselves so we can take back our movement.
Refusing Male Dominance in One Act of Defiance
This is the most revolutionary thing I’ve read in a lonnnggg time.
Why are we still having children? Why are we (heterosexual women) still participating in penetrative intercourse (PIV) with males?
I wrote a post recently about pregnancy and having children. I questioned why it is that we provide male systems with the one thing that they must have and are unable to do themselves, which is create PEOPLE as workers and consumers. I mean, we do it for free, at great risk to ourselves, and with males crying about it the entire time. Why are we populating the world for them?
Pregnancy should be compensated, period. We provide ALL of the actual humans for males to use, abuse, profit from, etc. Why are we doing all of that for free?
We shouldn’t be doing that for free. Our lives, bodies and time are valuable. Males put a price on everything. We either need to stop producing for them, or charge them…
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Stop wagging your dick at me, sis.
via Stop the Harassment and Threats Against Radical Feminists
This month, The Progressive ran an advertisement that seeks comment on the need to eliminate intimidation, threats of violence, and no-platforming and other silencing from the debate around gender identity and radical feminism.
This comes not a moment too soon. The advertisement lists several examples of very serious violations of the norms of political discourse. One incident included transwomen sending rape threats to a radical feminist, along with photographs of their genitals, presumably as a way to prove that they are capable of carrying out the threat.
In January, 2017, Carey Callahan, a person who has detransitioned from a transman back to female (not herself a radical feminist), posted on her blog a link to screen shots of responses a friend of hers, also a de-transitioner, had received to a post the friend made on twitter. Her friend had tweeted that she believed there was a need for female-only space. Two transwomen responded by providing a detailed description of how they would rape her, sending her pictures of their genitals.
This kind of sexual terrorism is more of what women must already endure under the patriarchy and is specifically why radical feminism even exists. It is disgusting and defies all logic that people would use their penises to perpetrate sexual terrorism against women under the guise of promoting gender inclusivity.
My personal take is that the recent rash of promotion of violence among progressives is somehow being influenced by the power structure. In response to the ad, I submitted the following as my comment:
I am writing to submit a comment of support of the initiative to stop the harassment and silencing of Radical Feminists.
I have noticed, because of my work for Black Liberation, that a lot of the themes of Antifa approaches to confronting white supremacy also appear in their confronting what they perceive to be trans exclusion. I oppose Antifa on many grounds but one of the biggest reasons is their promotion of the notion that a means to combat racism would be to “punch nazis.” Interpersonal violence as a strategy for liberation is obviously fundamentally flawed and advances no progress. I became concerned about Antifas involvement in racial struggles because they do not take their orders from POC, but instead self-deputize, which essentially results in a lack of agency by the people Antifa claims to be trying to protect, namely people of color.
I bring that up because I have noticed that, and this is clear from spending anytime on social media, a lot of folks in the current transactivism movement are also loosely affiliated with Antifa and support the Antifa approach that to eliminate problems, here “TERFs”, interpersonal violence will do. This again violates the norms of collective agency because individual interpersonal violence, especially first strike aggressor violence, does nothing to advance the interests of an oppressed class.
It is clear to me that this promotion of individual interpersonal violence is coming down as from a hierarchy. Somebody somewhere is deliberately advancing and distributing this “Punch a [blank]” messaging, and it is not the people at the grassroots that are personally affected by these struggles.
I believe to freeze this line of thinking it would be best to issue a complete moratorium on violence and threats of violence. It may be appropriate to create a RadFem/Trans alliance that is bound by a commitment to nonviolence and the eradication of threatening language. It is also important to have standards for excluding people from places of importance in this debate if they prove they cannot exercise that minimal bit of self control. These are very serious topics with many people’s lives, safety, and futures on the line. We must find ways to move together harmoniously.
I recently became a radical feminist specifically because I noticed there are critical questions and gaps in transgender activism that leave women and girls vulnerable and these things need to be discussed. Biological women, not empowered by any such thing as “cis women’s privilege,” are helpless to fend off silencing by people who simply throw around the term TERF when confronted with genuine concerns about the erasure of biological sex based protections. For the liberation of women, this must end.
I’m banned everywhere.
I have come to WordPress as I am running out of platforms where I can share my views and radical politics. Twitter has banned me for life and Facebook keeps deleting my accounts and putting me on 30 day bans. It is an undeniable problem when so many marginalized people, especially Black activists, are denied platforms to engage the masses merely for speaking their uncensored truths.
Words are not violence; violence is violence. I believe in free speech up to the point of threats. I don’t appreciate name calling and think it has no place in revolutionary discourse but even that isn’t violence.
If we want a revolution we have to normalize the notion that conversation will require people to hear things that will hurt.
Power to the people.
Liberation Monologue 