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Some women are just women. They’re not cis, not trans, just women.
Here’s why… 1/10
Here’s why… 1/10
You wouldn’t say “all balls: golf, tennis, inauguration…” as that would make no sense. You’d be muddling two completely different concepts that happen to share a word, “ball”. 2/10
And you wouldn’t say “all bats: baseball, table tennis, long-eared…” as that would make no sense either. You’d again be muddling two completely different concepts that happen to share a word, this time “bat”. 3/10
Unfortunately, there are now two very different concepts that share the word “woman”: women-as-biology and women-as-gender-identity.
“I am a woman” can mean either “I am a woman [in the sense of women-as-biology]” or “I am a woman [in the sense of women-as-gender-identity]” 4/10
“I am a woman” can mean either “I am a woman [in the sense of women-as-biology]” or “I am a woman [in the sense of women-as-gender-identity]” 4/10
These two completely different concepts sharing the same word, “woman”, allow TRAs and MRAs to carry out several acts of fraud.
One fraud is to insist women accept the label cis. The first diagram shows why this is nonsense. 5/10
One fraud is to insist women accept the label cis. The first diagram shows why this is nonsense. 5/10
To elaborate, the concept “blood pressure” applies to long-eared bats, but is utterly irrelevant to table tennis bats. Likewise, the concepts cis/trans apply to women-as-gender-identity, but are utterly irrelevant to women in the sense of women-as-biology. 6/10
A vast number of women are only women in the sense of women-as-biology, so to insist they must be either cis or trans is like saying a table tennis bat must have blood pressure. 7/10
Another fraud is phrases such as “women of colour, disabled women, trans women, Muslim women”.
This is like saying “baseball bats, long-eared bats, table tennis bats”. 8/10
This is like saying “baseball bats, long-eared bats, table tennis bats”. 8/10
Saying spaces for women-as-biology must also open to women-as-gender-identity: again a fraud. Two completely different concepts, sharing the same word.
It’s a little like saying shops selling baseball and table-tennis bats must also sell long-eared bats “to be inclusive”. 9/10
It’s a little like saying shops selling baseball and table-tennis bats must also sell long-eared bats “to be inclusive”. 9/10
Yes, a few women *are* cis: Sally Hines, Alison Phipps, the Stepford celebrities and politicians. I’ve just never met any in real life, and suspect there aren’t very many of them.
But most women are not cis, not trans, just women. #JustWomen 10/10
But most women are not cis, not trans, just women. #JustWomen 10/10
