By using terms like:
Uterus-haver
Vulva-person
Person who menstruates
Lactator
Gestational parent
Person with a cervix
You are a) reducing a person to a function which is dehumanising but more important b) fragmenting and thus obscuring the reality of female oppression. 1/

You’re separating out bodily functions rather than looking at the overall pattern. What is it that cervix-owners, menstruators and vagina-havers all have in common? That gets completely lost in the new ‘progressive’ language. It’s not my having of a uterus that’s the problem 2/

It’s the fact that society treats someone like me differently to a man (we never hear the terms penis-owners or sperm-maker). It makes no difference whether I actually have periods every month or whether I have children. I am still visible to the world as female 3/

And it’s that fact and that fact only that makes me be treated differently from a male person. This is NOT the same as saying that you’re only a woman if you menstruate (which is dumb anyway bc a huge part of female experience is menopause). 4/

This is because being a woman is not like being part of an exclusive club. The question of who is a woman is unnecessary because women are female humans (yes, even if they have a DSD). It’s like asking who is a human- there doesn’t tend to be much ambiguity in real life 5/

If you’re not a woman, you’re a man. That means men cannot be women, even if they really feel like they are. I accept that post medical transition, a male person can pass as female and will experience female oppression. The fact that that is a possibility doesn’t undermine 6/

the basic position that women are female humans though. But most of the discrimination trans ppl face is bc they are perceived as their birth sex but clearly don’t conform to expectations. Eddie Izzard may get abuse but that’s bc he is visibly male but wears lipstick 7/

If he were female, there wd be no such abuse but oppression would arise in other ways. That’s why pretending that women’s oppression has nothing to do with their sex is harmful and false. It’s done bc we want to be kind to males who wish they’d been born female. 8/

It might make them feel better but it actively harms women’s interests. It can only be done by totally dehumanising women and denying the reason why we’re treated unequally. It’s also really hard to keep up the illusion and even TRAs slip up. 9/

Take this person who claims that it’s too hard to use the word woman when talking abt breastfeeding and that it’s easier to just describe the activity (bc there are so many ‘genders’ who can lactate apparently. BUT 10/

Note that when Rebecca talks about her own experiences, she uses woman rather than ‘gestator’. Why the double standards? All of the ‘intersectional feminist’ people do this. They call GC women hateful but show time and again that they know exactly what a woman is. 11/

Technically, Rebecca’s tweets are exclusionary and bigoted but nobody’s going to come after her bc she has pronouns in her bio, hates JKR and says that Kathleen Stock shd be fired. But she’s showing that she doesn’t believe any of it. 12/12