#ftr its like definitely dickish but its punching up at a very real phenomenon of ppl who cling to bioessentialist ideas of ‘being female’

[unlimitedbutchworks]

the theyfab backlash shit drives me a little crazy mainly because it’s like, so insanely shallow and so clearly based in arbitrary norms of online identity speak. like, directly addressing the past experience of sex assignment, because it doesn’t dance around it, is always likened to misgendering and bioessentialism. and you see this despite these people being the first to rely on actual bioessentialist rhetoric; the first to bring up “male and female socialization” as a way to prescriptively excuse their behavior or cast harmful light on transfems, the first to misgender themselves by actively identifying with an idea of inherent femaleness at other opportunities where they can benefit, etc…