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#peaktrans really is the gift that keeps on giving. In unspectacular gender reasoning we are *all* expected to accept that because white women have a history of excluding black women from womanhood sex should no longer be the marker between the sexes. https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1216979525726240768
Ergo... my ancestral tribe who are allowed to live as they have for generations are a bunch of transphobes and racists to boot 'cos "historical racism perpetrated by white women".
Is it any wonder that when Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi announced "trans women are trans women"..
Is it any wonder that when Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi announced "trans women are trans women"..
... her love affair with the west ended? She became racist when she said "trans women are trans women" despite having pointed out "... I did not think of myself as black and only became black when I came to America...."
The irony alerts in all of this...
The irony alerts in all of this...
... are impossibly widespread. Chimamanda's hounding out of feminism (and current times will go down in history for people excluding others out of political movements) is underpinned by *western* notions of the *essence* of man and woman. Not the reality and materiality of...
... sex nor the how both translate to living experience.
We know the reactionary right accuses (and the accusatory tone has a meaning for trans) Michelle Obama of being trans despite having given birth (twice). That's down to the racial exclusion of black women from...
We know the reactionary right accuses (and the accusatory tone has a meaning for trans) Michelle Obama of being trans despite having given birth (twice). That's down to the racial exclusion of black women from...
... womanhood underpinned by the gender mechanism that pervades *western* societies based on people's sex. It makes absolutely no sense to redefine people based on anything immaterial but here we are enforcing the very set of arbitrary rules regarding sex instead of battling...
... against it the effects of the effective hierarchisation of people that the gender mechanism imposes as well as enable other social mechanisms to do.
What this, in practice, means for women, the historical losers in all of this is neither here nor there. After all, gender is *performative* (I must remind myself of that when I recall my pain during labour while supplicating my own mum to take the syringe away from the nurses...
... who pricked me 21 - yes, 21 - times before getting an anaesthetist to numb my hand in order to keep on pricking to get the antibiotic flowing through my bloodstream because, unlike me or my mum they couldn't see blood vessels).
What it means to children... they may be born...
What it means to children... they may be born...
... the wrong body. Nothing to do with a mismatch between who they are and who society wants them to be. The problem is with them and nature. Is there anything more liberal than this FFS?
No, according to Elthaway I've just become Samuel L Jackson's well played "Stephen" in "Django Unchained" or the house slave in Malcolm X's speeches, helping white women police womanhood. I'm not the black woman who can absolutely see how her feminism actually pushes not just...
... Black women further to the margins but butch women, lesbians, etc. My very demand that women have a right to be free from the male gaze dissolved by conflating sex with gender. My worries about the threat to sex based statistics which influence and record everything from..
... resource allocation to how seriously society treats women dismissed in one fell swoop of genderologics.
I ask... how exactly is this NOT racist?
