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gender-euphowrya · 2 years ago

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honestly i think the way transphobes are so attached to that "you'll never be a real ___" phrase is because the fact that sex/gender isn't some immovable unchanging fact that nothing could alter is a threat to sexism as a whole. which despite the claims of those who'd self-label as feminists, is exactly what transphobia is about upholding.

how can a society that says "men/males must be this way, women/females must be that way" have any credibility and keep functioning if it's possible to go from one side of it to another ?

the idea that cis women and cis men are almost separate species that can never resemble each other is the very foundation of sexism, so when we acknowledge that not only can the line between the two be crossed or blurred, and that there may not even be a line at all, it all crumbles down. not to mention acknowledging how billions of different human beings wouldn't realistically be classifiable in only 2 categories.

so witnessing us changing something that should, in their mind, always remain the same, and doing it so effectively that they sometimes can't tell us apart from them, that's making them seethe lmao

#how can i Big Beauty Industry Moneybags sell women the idea that their skin is frail and sensitive and requires specific products #if it turns out that they can just start shopping in the men's section and notice no difference besides the price tag #precisely because trans people demonstrate that the innate barrier between different types of human bodies isn't so strong or uncrossable #how can i Glass Ceiling Enforcer keep entertaining the idea that some jobs are for men and some are for women #if a 'man' can be a woman and a 'woman' can be a man and there are people who exist outside of those labels entirely #we're a threat to society's control of individuals through gendered norms being passed off as biological facts #so what's their reaction ? ''well you don't count. you're not a real ___ and you can't be''#when it's just. undeniable at this point that we're able to meet any random criteria for 'real womanhood/manhood' that they set #not even always through medical procedures !#we're the finger that points out that sexism is founded on nothing but lies and misunderstandings and they cannot accept that

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