Exactly. I'm in my 60's and narrowly avoided being paid less than a man for doing the same job, being able to continue working after marriage, getting a mortgage in my own name etc etc. My mother's generations had far less rights than I did, and not long before she was born there were protests and marches in our local town about girls being educated at school past the age of 11 (it was considered unnecessary).
All of this was real to me, not part of dusty history long gone. When I went to school only the younger women were married. All of the older ones weren't as they'd chosen their careers over marriage. My Aunt never married, possibly for the same reason.
I recall a time when a boy was ridiculed in class because he was "beaten by a girl" (me). I didn't receive any recognition of my skills - male teacher making the comments. (It didn't upset me, even at a young age I thought it was an idiotic thing to say).
I could give so many more examples.
It's taken years to get to where we are now, and there's still a long way to go. I'm not willing to give up everything we fought for.
Completely sidestepping the utter lunacy of treating ordinary men like they might have a uterus hidden away in their male pelvises.
yet puberty blockers are ok!
