#posted on my spare url because this is a fury rant

[syl-phy]

what's especially heinous about the new trans drama with TERFs and transphobes targeting the intersex community is not only the jagged line of when one deserves ire in the sand they draw between the willingly transitioning and those born that way but also that they're pretending to protect some "sanctity of womanhood" or what I'll call it for the sake of this rant: femininity.

the sanctity of being the weaker gender because a boon when you are masculine in sports is cheating when you are feminine. the implication in this is that even the strongest Olympic feminine would lose against the weakest Olympic masculine. It's on the same dumb logic as when amateur masculines think they can beat Serena Williams, no matter the strength feminine is always weaker and any show of strength is being Too Masculine. You're enforcing Player 2 Gender and worse you're tipping the bar to Feminine Need Not Apply.

the sanctity of being the pregnant gender. because it's so special right? having your life on the line but your choices still apparently needing to be decided by those who cannot become pregnant because you are feminine and don't know your life or your body or your future the correct way like the masculine. I especially hate the transphobic/TERF woobification of pregnancy like it's superduper special peak femininity moment as if it hasn't been the weapon that it is used against us for 1000s of years. while you glorified it, they went "Look, we've relieved you of your ability to choose when you want to be pregnant because the masculines know best!". again.

the sanctity of being doubted no matter your expertise by any gender because you are feminine. And the kicker is your doubter's gender could be anything. You could be working in this field for 30 years and be the exact same gender but masculinity in the societal voice knows all and they're gonna ask the new amateur or worse the outdated ancient prejudice. femininity is regularly considered lower quality enough to pay less, but not less enough to not pay the same tax %. And despite being an equal tax player, like with pregnancy, you are to cleave to the masculine way of your feminine life. Why expect equal rights? follow directions, feminine.

the sanctity of being the victim. it doesn't matter that there is just as many masculine victims as feminine ones, you're gonna hear about the feminine ones and you're going to roll your eyes or belittle the masculine ones. because being feminine is weak, we all know that! because if we ever let go of the top victim spot we'd have to do something like address how we overvalue domination and sexuality in the masculine in the first place. Because if you're masculine being sexually targeted is "scoring" or being "lucky". But nevermind all that we need to use the victim card to explain why there's a difference in validity points in how the one presumably getting penetrated gets killed when their genitals aren't the same.

And then the sanctity of being not enough: the sanctity of denial. the only thing that I see transwomen and ciswomen share regularly is TERFs and transphobes and tryhards telling them they are not feminine enough for some arbitrary asinine reason. "it's the genitals! but for her it's the chromosomes!""you'll never be a woman because you don't know what it's like to be targeted and a victim!" "You were attacked because something you did, feminine one, you're not a victim!" It's crazy that you don't accept them as women because you're already engaging in history's oldest feminine pasttime: denial for the sake of denying them.

when you are protecting the sanctity of womanhood you are protecting one thing:

the sanctity of inferiority.

gender is so fucking stupid, sincerely an AFAB non-binary.