Transwomen are Not Females - Mirrored video

So one of the problems that I find with the *** community is that there is no space to speak openly and honestly about oppression that is specific to females and that's because whenever there's a discussion in the *** community surrounding women there's always a relentless pressure to include trans women in the conversation without acknowledging our differences in how we are oppressed. The *** movement is very very male centered. There's a lot of focus on gender transgression and I feel like a lot of people are so caught up in being pc about gender and people's gender identity that they don't want to acknowledge or recognize that biological sex plays a huge role when we're talking about oppression. I admit that in most cases when I'm speaking about women's issues I'm talking about females okay and that's because I'm a female and my experience is from the female experience and that's what I'm going to speak about okay. I can't speak for anybody else but my own experiences and what i've seen from other people. This is a venn diagram of women's oppression. Okay. My intercourse video represents a global academic of fuckery against women and it does not include trans women it's only specific to females however as you can see if we come over to the middle here if we're talking about *** harassment or *** or in the case of some fetishization then all women face it. And then there are also some things that trans women face that females will not have to face ok and as you can see there just about you know equal amounts of things that we all have to deal with on both sides but they are different okay and those differences need to be a knowledged. This diagram is not by any means meant to be comprehensive but it's meant to just give examples of different things and you can feel free to add as you wish but this is just an example okay. I accept trans woman as women but because trans women are not female I don't accept them as being female okay if you notice i'm using the word female instead of cis women and that's because I don't believe in the cis/trans binary because I don't believe that females are privileged on the basis of gender. Trans women and females are oppressed in different ways and the defining factor in fact distinction is biological sex because sex matters. Womanhood on the other hand is a gender identity and that identity is socially constructed. Womanhood is an identity that is forced onto females okay throughout our lives girlhood and womanhood for trans women womanhood is an identity that they feel that they embody okay Even though i'm rooted in my identity as a woman and i'm proud of it that does not change the fact that socially and culturally womanhood is just an abstract concept that is used to oppress people on the basis of gender and get us to conform to these *** up gender roles a couple months ago I made a video called being queered does not make you radical and I talked about the fact that I encountered a grown man who had no intention of living as a woman he was very violent he was very sexist and he abused my female friend and he identified as a woman and as a lesbian okay and I didn't accept it. I didn't accept it personally because not just because of what happened with my friend but also because when he is identifying as a woman he is appropriating and exploiting not just my experience but females experiences but also trans women's experiences. but either way he is proof that legally and socially anybody is free to identify however they want to ok a grown man who is actively exploiting women is able to identified as a woman and enter women spaces okay if we allow for that type of *** to happen. The thing is that not everyone can identify as female and females are globally oppressed class in and of ourselves that means if we created civil rights and legislation around women or womanhood simply for the sake of including of allowing anyone to enter the group including trans women it would be ignoring the fact that females are a distinctly oppressed class and that females need to have certain rights and legislation in place to protect ourselves not to mention that we would also be allowing anyone to enter the women's group because woman is again a gender identity it is a social construct is not something that is concrete and and defined ok females cannot be grouped in with trans women all the time because we have been oppressed on the basis of sex most trans women have lived as boys and men for some time in their lives the fact that trans women are pressed on the bases of gender does not mean that they are exempt from sexist modes of thinking it doesn't mean that they have not benefited from male privilege and it doesn't mean that they still don't benefit from some forms of male privilege and that's because trans women were born as males ok hence the term male privilege and because sex matters biological sex matters in this society having a working *** or male reproductive system counts as a form of male privilege people really need to be more sensitive to the fact that females have been oppressed on the basis of biological sex and that oppression creates real traumatic impacts in our lives okay I recently read an article by woman who used to be married to a man before he transition and began living as a woman she was married to him for twenty years in the article she described her former partner using that he/him pronouns and she got a lot of backlash for it people accused her of being transphobic for using the he/him pronouns and so the article was taking down, k. I personally agree that they shouldn't have published an article to the public without some sort of context solely because people could look at it and say that it's okay to use the wrong pronouns to regard or address all trans women ok but I also thought the way that people responded to that article was really *** up and really insensitive and that that kind of backlash was really just sexist you'd think that maybe people would be sensitive to the fact that she thought of her former husband as a man because he dicked her down for twenty years and they had a baby together and he left her with the baby and on top of that he could have you know more than likely he did have sexist modes of thinking and internalize sexism and they could have bennett actively acting out those oppressive gender roles in the relationship ok I guess we're just supposed to turn a blind eye to that and just just throw her entire experience as a female away in favor of her former husband letting the honest okay if any of the men who i've had intercourse with in the past whether it was consentual or not if they *** me if it was consensual whatever okay if we had sex or we had intercourse at some point and they came out to me looked me in the eye and they were- even if they were presenting as women and they demanded that I see them as a woman I would refuse okay and that's not because I hate them that's not because I don't want them to have civil rights but that's not because I don't want to respect their gender identity just because they happen to be living as women no that's because when they were busy shoving there *** into all of my orifices and I was risking pregnancy and they were not I was having sex with a man I was being *** by a man I was having intercourse with a man and I was not having sex with the woman that was my experience I was my lived experience as a female and that needs to be respected just as much as anyone else is experiences because that *** is real and those experiences have stayed with me my whole life and it's not going away just because of the way that someone identifies himself on the inside having a uterus and a *** is not just some exclusive club for women who happen to be able to bear children and make babies that we want to exclude trans women from it is a very real experience. Being *** and knocked up and forced to push out a child that you don't want and forced to breast feed it and if you're poor or you know if you're a woman of color and likely in america living off of welfare and supporting the child off of welfare for it's entire childhood and adult life that is not a form of oppression to ignore okay that is a reality and that is how a lot of women are living and that is not something to be ignored okay and it gets a lot worse when you get outside of the country having your having your *** cut off because people think it's dirty it's not something that's to be ignored okay it's a real life thing and it only affects females not just erase it as something that we can talk about just because it's you know not universal to all women the other thing as that being female surpasses your gender identity because trans men and gender *** people who are female face the same exact oppression for being female ok that female oppression for trans men does not go away just because they choose to live as men ok even though for in the case of trans men they don't identify as women and they might experience some forms of of male privilege that trans women don't have it's called intersectionality okay it's not it's not all one thing or all the other and it's true that trans women do fees unique forms of discrimination but that discrimination is largely rooted in them being associated with being female okay and occupying the female sex role and their oppression is compounded because patriarchy does not agree with males who choose to live openly as women okay it's an abomination but trans women are not the only male born people who are pressed on the basis of gender ok *** males in general are oppressed on the basis of gender because they are also associated with being closer to occupying the female sex role especially if for example they are more effeminate or they are on the receiving end of any penetrative sex that they might be having they are associated with the female sex role and so they are relegated to a lower class status ok trans women are oppressed on the basis of gender not sex only females are oppressed on the basis of sex but all gender oppression is still rooted in the hatred of femaleness ok a couple months ago I went to take a *** test at an organization that is for *** youth of color and to the person who administered my test was a black trans woman and you know she told me that she started to a caucus a group for specifically for trans woman because she felt that the women's groups that included trans women did not accurately address the issues that were specific to trans women I thought that was the great idea and told her that that's something that we should be doing more is that we should have caucuses I'm sure, you know, if she decided to announce her group to the organization that i'm sure most people there at least would be very supportive of it but I can assure you that if I for example wanted to create a group that is specifically for females I would receive a lot of backlash and a lot of people would accuse me of being transphobic. Now, this is not again this is not about the oppression olympics but is just about being honest why can't we be honest and acknowledge that we have differences that there are differences between trans women's experiences and females experiences and there are similarities as well and organize around that. People need to stop playing gender police and calling certain women transphobic when they want to organize around women's issues that are specific to females knowing fully well that most women are female most lesbians are exclusively attracting to females stop telling lesbians that they need to have sex with trans women in order to not be transphobic and also people need to learn how to support female only spaces support trans woman only spaces and also support and create women spaces that are you know for all women i'm against the idea that trans women and females cannot organize together politically because the truth is that we need to organize together in order to make real progress okay you cannot have a situation in which females make gains and trans women are left behind and you can have a situation where trans women are making gains over females okay because that can happen too. I also don't support the eraser of certian forms the oppression just for the sake of being PC and that definitely includes female oppression and I really think on this issue the *** community needs to get its *** together that's all I want to say and Yeah that's pretty much it. Peace.