1/ I think a discussion is long overdue about why female impersonation by men in & of itself is inherently problematic and an affront to our dignity.

Why are women the only oppressed group whose biological characteristics may be mimicked by an oppressor group without...
2/ ...the oppressor group being held to account? Time & again, I am tone policed & censured for saying that regardless of whether a TIM says TWAW or TWAM, he is not "sticking up for women's rights" when he is impersonating the very biology which is the root of our oppression.
3/ I am always staggered by the self entitlement of TIMs who wear our biology as a costume & the denial, diminishing & gaslighting they engage in when I point it out. Misogyny is so culturally entrenched that it goes unacknowledged by TIMs & their allies that it is wrong.
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