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Female Erasure, Reverse Sexism, and the Cisgender Theory of Privilege

by Elizabeth Hungerford read by Genevieve Gluck

"Cis theory of gender denies the lived experiences of millions of women who despise the social role 'woman,' instead framing non-trans women's gender identity as a privilege. The theory is blind to how these seemingly benign 'gender identities' operate as a hierarchy of social roles and interactions whose end game is the unequal distribution of power between male and female humans. This essentialist, ahistorical assessment of gender identity short-circuits women's ability to recognize themselves as oppressed by gender-based roles. It denies us use of the language and concepts necessary to describe women's specific exploitation as women."

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I am Diane.

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"Rapists freed from jail have gone on to rape again at the rate of one a week.

We discovered that 264 sexual predators released from prison over the past five years went on to strike again."

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Alina said the conditions for surrogate mothers are terrible.

She said BioTexCom put her up in a small apartment 32 weeks into her pregnancy with four other women, where she was forced to share a bed with another surrogate mother.

"We were all very stressed. Most of the women come from small villages and are in hopeless situations," she said. "We spent the first week just lying around, crying. We couldn't eat. This is a typical situation for surrogates."

Alina said the supervisor visited the apartment most days to check on the women's lifestyle.

"If we weren't home after 4pm, we could be fined 100 euros. We were also threatened with a fine if any of us openly criticised the company, or directly communicated with the biological parents."

"We were treated like cattle and mocked by doctors," Alina said. "There was no hot water, we washed with plastic bottles over the toilet with water that was preheated in a kettle. I wanted to be transferred to a different hospital, but the staff threatened to not pay me at all if I complained to Anca."

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Transing of children is abuse and the legally sanctioned medical experimentation of pharmaceuticals on youth. All puberty blockers are simply drugs that are prescribed for off-label use. The most frequently prescribed is Lupron, a powerful chemotherapy drug made only and specifically for palliative care during end-stage advanced prostate cancer. It was originally developed for and prescribed to patients who were dying, and not expected to recover, as a last resort.

Now, this drug - which is also given to pedophiles as a form of chemical castration - is a so-called "puberty blocker". It was developed by Takeda-Abbott (TAP) Pharmaceuticals. In 2001, TAP paid an industry-record $885 million and pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of conspiring with doctors to bill government health insurers for free samples of Lupron; they provided kickbacks to doctors for prescribing the drug for off-label use. Whistleblower Dr. David B. Redwine claimed he was offered $100,000 to find reasons to prescribe the drug to patients. The company has to date paid out a record 1 billion for cases of fraud and deception about the harms of their drugs.

Transgenderism is a socially engineered marketing campaign for pharmaceutical companies which intentionally takes the guise of a human rights issue and exploits and abuses homosexual youth and children struggling with mental health and autism.

"An astonishing 17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Most of the youngsters undergoing the transformation are autistic, according to a teacher there, who said vulnerable children with mental health problems were being ‘tricked’ into believing they are the wrong sex."

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Men have denied, and continue to deny women education. It has been said we are too stupid to deserve an education. But men gave themselves credit for women's contributions.

Men have told us women are frail and weak, even as they bound her with corsets, mutilated her feet and genitals, and told us that dying in painful childbirth was our curse.

They told us God is a man and he created all life. Meanwhile, women went on dying to bring them into this world, quite literally sacrificing their lives to perpetuate humanity.

Men say that women are wanton, lewd, sexual in nature. And they rape us, they develop industries towards exploiting our bodies, and say that men just can't help themselves. Men have sexual needs which necessitate a perpetual industry of abuse. There's never enough porn, and women must be available for their consumption.

But they say we are the ones whose nature is sexual, that we are hysterical, irrational, and emotional. And when they kill us it is a "crime of passion".

Men commit around 98% of all violent crimes, and a woman is in the most danger of being killed by a violent man when she tries to end her relationship with him.

Now men are saying that we don't exist at all, that they conjured us from their imaginations. Not only do they have the right to use our bodies, they claim the right to appropriate our bodies for themselves.

Our bodies are not a social construct. To believe that, you'd have to believe that men's perspectives determine reality.

You'd have to believe women are a product of male imagination.

It's the greatest male reversal, the most sinister projection of all the poisonous projections:

That women ourselves exist only in men's imagination, but the gender stereotypes they created are reality.

That gender, their fantasy, is more real to them than actual women.

Men have been defining us in terms of their ideas for thousands of years. But the truth is that we exist independently of men, we always have. We are strong, we are intelligent. Wherever we are allowed to flourish we surpass them, because we work relentlessly.

Men tell us imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We are different and that upsets them.

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Two more medical schools in Japan have admitted to systematic discrimination against female students this week, the latest institutional scandal to hit the industry after Tokyo Medical University was accused of rigging examination results to suppress the number of women in the student body.

Juntendo University and Kitasato University on Monday conceded that they had set different passing scores for female and male applicants in entrance exams, as well as prioritized male candidates. Female applicants were held to a different standard because “women mature faster mentally than men and their communication ability is also higher [when they take the entrance exam],” Juntendo University’s medical school dean said, according to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. He added that “in some ways, this was a measure to help male applicants.”

In August, Tokyo Medical University was found to have manipulated exam scores to exclude female students for more than a decade, prompting backlash and a government investigation into entrance exam processes at medical schools across the country. An investigation found that the university had reduced all medical school applicants’ initial test scores by 20%, before inflating the scores of male applicants’ exams. The institution initially defended the policy by arguing that women were more likely to leave the medical profession to pursue motherhood, creating a staffing shortage in the sector.

Juntendo University President Hajime Arai apologized for the discriminatory testing practices, and Kitasato University’s officials have said they will introduce an external committee to address the issue.

The latest news of the academic discrimination comes amid government efforts to raise the profile of women in Japan’s workforce. As of 2017, women made up 43% of the laborers, according to the World Bank. In the same year, Japan ranked 114th out of 144 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report.

Despite Shinzo Abe’s pledge to create “a society in which all women shine,” the Japanese Prime Minister himself faced criticism in October after a reshuffle left only one woman in his 19-member cabinet.

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Cyntoia Brown will be released in August.

She served 15 years for protecting herself from a man who paid to rape her when she was only 16 years old.

A month ago, the Tennessee Supreme Court was unanimous when it ruled against Brown saying she would have to serve at least 51 years of her prison sentenced before she would be eligible for parole.

The ruling by the courts came in response to a lawsuit in which Brown argued her sentenced was unconstitutional, citing a 2012 opinion by the US Supreme Court that said mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders violate the US Constitution.

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Thirty three year old, 6′ 3″ tall Brazillian volley ball player Tifanny Abreu is expected to be one of the first male-born transgender athletes competing in the Olympics at Tokyo 2020.

New rules set by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) in 2016 now allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sport if they can show their Testosterone levels are below the arbitrary level of 10nM for 12 months. Surgery is not required. 10nM is below the average male Testosterone range (average 23nM) but above the female average of 2.6nM.

Abreu started playing men’s volleyball at age 17 as Rodrigo Abreu, competing at men’s professional league level. After starting to identify as a women in 2012 and changing names to Tiffany, Abreu started playing in the women’s professional league in 2017. In less that a month, Abreu was scoring the highest number of points a game on average and then beat the record set by one of Brazil’s Olympic stars, Tandara Caixeta, for total points scored in a single game: 39.

Few elite athletes speak up about the obvious unfairness and adverse impact on female sportswomen. However, 4 times Olympian for Brazilian Volleyball and bronze medal winner Ana Paula Henkel (now Connelly) has bravely spoken up and written a powerful open letter to the IOC.

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A group of women Facebook users filed a gender discrimination complaint with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday, accusing the social media giant and nine other companies of posting biased job ads on the platform, according to the New York Times.

The businesses reportedly bought ads on Facebook to publicize job openings, but targeted them so that no women who use the platform could see them. The jobs included positions for truck drivers and window installers, according to the report.

The women claim that hiding employment ads from an entire gender of job seekers is a violation of the Civil Rights Act.

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I hope one of the women gets spontaneously pregnant through parthenogenesis and her daughter starts a colony of women on Mars who can reproduce without men

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Transgenderism is a false flag

The only forms of rebellion the system allows are those which create the illusion of choice while benefitting the status quo.

Black rights activists are still murdered. Indigenous activists are still murdered. Environmentalists are still murdered. Women are still murdered.

Transgenderism is a false, sanctioned form of rebellion that falls within a framework of the oppressive, capitalist system. It benefits pharmaceutical industries and relies on patriarchy's lie that gender stereotypes are innate.

The system creates the problem and sells a solution. Gender dysphoria is real, as any woman can attest. Gender, however, is not.

All forms of rebellion can be absorbed into the capitalist framework, especially through the sale of selfhood as an external marker. Under such defense, nothing is sacred and any idea or identity may be bought; there are no limits to what can become a commodity.

This is why activists who pursue changing the system are killed, why transgenderism as an ideology is being embraced worldwide by governments who understand that it benefits men and legally erases patriarchy.

Those who oppose this way of thinking are murdered; those who adopt it as a person choice become lauded mascots.

How do you immediately understand that transgenderism is a false flag?

By how quickly it has been embraced by celebrities and politicians, and how very quickly laws are being changed globally.

Reminder: the US never passed the ERA granting women equal rights.

We have so much work to do. We are on the brink of mass extinctions. What better way to divert from global ecological crises than to label biology itself as socially constructed by men, and who better fit to encourage bio-denial than corporations and celebrities?

It makes complete sense that the death throes of an obsolete system collectively resort to violent gnashings against nature and biology itself, at a time when our very survival as a species depends on healing biological systems.

Anyone who cares about the survival of the planet, or even of humanity itself, ought to shun outright the concept of becoming a true "self" through toxic chemicals. Instead we ought to re-establish a concept of selfhood through actions as opposed to perceptions.

Indeed, human self-identity is also at odds with the survival of the planet, as long as we shape it as dependent on external means.

You can never buy an identity, or medicate yourself into existence; in truth, your existence is nothing but part of an ecological system.

It's my view that transgenderism goes hand in hand with climate change; that it diverts us from our own extinction by feeding an appetite for validation, to fill a hole created by a destructive system.

So we turn inward, rather than facing our shared reality.

As much as transgenderism is biophobia, extreme societal denial of physical reality, it can't exist without the very real phenomenon of womb envy, which is to say the acknowledgement that women reproduce life and men play a less significant role in continuing humanity.

Women have emphasized repeatedly that the female ability to reproduce is what men seek to control when they oppress us.

Now, they demand our silence regarding our physical differences.

We are allowed a body, or a mind; never both at the same time.

When and if society at large realizes that this has been but a stepping stone towards transhumanism, the human merging and dependence on technology for survival, it will be too late; and undoubtedly, a man will receive credit for pointing out what is quite obvious to us as women.

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Lucy Parsons (1853 – 1942) was an American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarcho-communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator.

Parsons entered the radical movement following her marriage to newspaper editor Albert Parsons and moved with him from Texas to Chicago, where they co-wrote an anarchist newspaper called "The Alarm".

Following her husband's execution in 1887, Lucy Parsons remained a leading American radical activist, as a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World.

It is speculated that Parsons may have been born a slave, to parents of Native American, African American and Mexican ancestry. Lucy Parsons' origins are not documented, and she told different stories about her background so it is difficult to sort fact from myth.

Described by the Chicago Police Department as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters" in the 1920s, Parsons had become highly effective as an anarchist organizer primarily involved in the labor movement in the late 19th century, but also participating in revolutionary activism on behalf of political prisoners, people of color, the homeless and women.

"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth."

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Na Hyeseok was a Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter, educator, and journalist. Her pen name was Jeongwol. She was the first female professional painter and the first known feminist writer in Korea.

As a young woman, Na was known for her high spirits and outspokenness, making it clear she wanted to be a painter and an intellectual, rejecting the traditional "good wife, good mother" archetype.

Her major written work, Kyonghui (경희), published in 1918, concerns a woman's self-discovery and her subsequent search for meaning in life as a "new woman;" it is the first feminist short story in Korean literature.

In 1919, she participated in the March 1st Movement against Japanese rule. She was jailed for this, and the lawyer hired by her family to represent her soon became her husband.

She challenged the patriarchal social system and male-oriented mentality of Korean society at the time. In "A Divorce Confession", Na criticized the repression of female sexuality; stated that her ex-husband had been unable to satisfy her sexually and refused to discuss the issue; and finally she advocated "test marriages" where a couple would live together before getting married to avoid a repeat of her unhappy marriage. It was "A Divorce Confession" that ruined Na's career as her views were regarded as scandalous and shocking as in traditional Korean Confucian culture premarital sex was regarded as taboo and women were not to speak frankly of their sexuality.

Unable to sell her paintings, essays or stories, Na was reduced to destitution and spent her last years living on the charity of Buddhist monasteries.

Her fate was often used to scold young Korean woman who had literary or artistic ambitions; "Do you want to become another Na Hye-sok?" was a frequent reprimand to daughters and younger sisters. However, she has recently been acknowledged in Korea for her artistic and literary accomplishments.

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Indigenous women are roughly seven times more likely than non-indigenous women to be victims of serial homicide, according to a compiled international dataset of serial killings.