TattieJan 7, 2025

Reminder to all feminists

If you accept trans people being defined by their reproductive role...
Then men can define all woman by their reproductive role

If you accept that trans teenagers are too young to make decisions about their bodies...
Then men can decide teenage girls are too young to make decisions about their bodies

If you accept medical gatekeeping of trans people's access to hormones...
Then doctors can restrict any woman's access to HRT and birth control

If you accept stripping trans people of legal protections...
Then men can strip women of legal protections

This is the truth of "trans rights are human rights"
Regardless of your personal feelings on whether trans people are "really" the gender they say they are, the exact same human rights protecting us also underlie women's liberation-- bodily autonomy, dignity, equality of opportunity, and protection from harm.
And so many men are desperate for those rights to disappear.

Show threadCaroline Bell Jan 7, 2025
@Tattie
I think the cis know this. My mother is an open anti-feminist and transphobe.
Show threadTattieJan 7, 2025

@halotroop2288 then she has picked her side. But there are a vast amount of cis women, especially in the UK, who think of themselves as feminist but "don't know what to think" about trans rights.

If they don't figure it out soon, they'll be scratching their heads as to how they lost their rights, when all they did was stay silent as the forces of fascism targeted their political dialogue at trans people.

Show threadSarah WJan 7, 2025
@Tattie @halotroop2288
Many of us know and are supportive.
Unfortunately I've met many women that don't get that we're on the same side.
Show threadTattie
@Sarahw and not only the same side in an allyship way but literally the same target.
Like, some people might be scratching their heads about how "childless cat ladies" suddenly became a fascist talking point, but I'm not in the least surprised, because it leads on directly from their "what is a woman?" attack on trans women. Because if women are defined by their ability to bear children, as the fascists want, then women without children are without value or validity.
@halotroop2288
Jan 7, 2025 at 9:55pmWeb
Show threadSarah WJan 7, 2025
@Tattie @halotroop2288
Exactly.