It’s actually refreshing to come here and read things like the comments from this thread. I fully agree - I’m not cis, I’m just a woman.
I fully support trans people to live their lives however they want. But the political agenda has played it off as women against trans women. Apparently both can’t exist?
There needs to be some acknowledgment from trans women that they may not feel like a man, but they just can’t ever know what it feels like to be a woman. It’s perfectly valid for them to talk about what it means to be a trans woman - and apparently we all must respect that - but women are just not respected in the same way. As usual women are shit all over.
If it’s offensive to say - I feel like I am a black person born into a white person’s body, and I know exactly what it feels like to be black - with no acknowledgment of the the generational and societal weight to what that means - then why is it not ok for women to say trans women will never be able to truly know what it means to be a woman.
It’s just so fucked up. All women are doing by pushing back on this is saying respect us for who we are. But yeah, as usual, that is disregarded and shit all over.