#they love to accuse trans ppl of making gender into an ontology when they littchrally define female as the platonic form of the child-bearer

[virtue-boy]

lowkey my reading on ontologies of the body and disability has complimented and developed my transfeminism a lot

The Body Multiple - particularly the section where Mol describes the doctor's language looking at X-Rays and discussing fat deposits when patients are female.

Fearing the Black Body - Racial history of disease and moral coding of the body, with a focus on racist and colonial conceptions of Black women in Europe and North America

Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America - racial and gender history of prosthesis and other reconstructive methods in USA.

On the Normal and the Pathological - analysis of medical taxonomy and deformity

Xenofemist Manifesto - -if nature is unjust, change nature!

it's pretty funny to see TERFS fall back upon god and his divinely ordained telos to try and keep their soundbite shibboleths coherent