re: #106 Justanotherhuman

That Wiki link is some really weird stuff. Notice how it comes from an entirely male POV and immediately, in the first sentence, attacks “radical feminism”. I suppose I’m a TERF, however they want to hate me, even though no, I’m not homophobic and don’t care how people express themselves sexually within the bounds of consent. No amount of imagining, if you were born with intact male sex organs, will make you anything else even if you can change how you look, even if you resort to radical surgery and hormones for the rest of your life.

I don’t say this out of hate, I say it because women have far too little for ourselves than to have men intrude upon us, upon our very gender, even going so far as to glamorize what they’re doing in a paean to how they think women should look—lots of cosmetics, fancy clothes, etc which are not what makes a female a woman. We women are far too diverse to categorize our own selves that way.

As far as being a “radical feminist”, I also rejected that as a second wave feminist because it was too exclusionary and wound up as hate-filled for people I loved—my own sons.

I have to completely disagree with you. Gender identity disorder is a real thing and people are born in the wrong bodies. It doesn’t affect me as a woman in any way. I’m all for transgender rights.