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1. That a small number of transitioned trans women have been using women's spaces for a long time is not the same as the impact of a new rights movement
To the small group of cis women worried about sharing spaces with trans women: you\u2019ve almost certainly already been doing so for most of ur life. The online trend of anti-trans hysteria is new, not trans women existing in th world we all share (under patriarchy we all experience)
— Sally Rugg (@sallyrugg) January 15, 2021
that demands that *anybody is a women only on the basis of self-declaration* and explicitly includes cross-dressers under the trans umbrella. There was less than 5000 people who received a GRC. The estimates of the numbers of cross-dressers in the male population is around 4%.
THAT is a MASSIVE difference.
2. Therefore, any comments you make re: women's current resistance are irrelevant. We are not responding to the same thing.
3. Calling women's concerns about the number of males who may now have access to their intimate spaces 'hysteria'
immediately discredits you as a feminist. (Hello Judy!)
4. Female people are socialised into the rapeable class. They are subjected to objectification and violation from childhood, and especially from their early teens. This has a massive impact on
The world can be scary for women: we are at risk of violence from men we know and men we don\u2019t, we can be ridiculed and ignored in health settings, mocked in popular culture, excluded from opportunities for leadership and power. Cis women share all these experiences w trans women
— Sally Rugg (@sallyrugg) January 15, 2021
mental health and sense of their own personhood. Many of us experience being female as fucking traumatic. We *do not* share this experience with people who go through childhood and puberty as males, and whose impression of what 'being female' means is informed by patriarchal
Some people are reacting to the Capitol and Christianity in the worst possible way - ethically and strategically.
Several people responded to Christian Identity / white supremacist theology thread with calls to eradicate religion.
Let's just get one thing out of the way:
1) that won't ever happen
2) you're assuming religion is the problem (spoiler; it's
Brief thread on the white supremacist Christian Identity theology you asked in response to this thread.
— The Provost / \u0633\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u0646\u0629 (@MsEntropy) January 15, 2021
Incoming. https://t.co/TM4pDI3jcC
Not only do non-religious ideologies prove equally lethal, but in many cases, religious observance - like regular attendance of mosques, for example - is inversely correlated with political violence.
Also: generalizations are always a very bad idea; they lack analytic depth.
I also had people read the Christian Identity thread, and then write to me to ask:
"I heard a politician open his/her remarks with the name of God / Jesus, and it worried me. Is he/she a Nazi?"
Okay, let me stop you RIGHT there.
The answer here is not āevery Christian politician is a Christian identity Nazi, and every mention of āthe words āJesusā and āGodā is the āChristian Talibanāā (or whatever Islamophobic term is in current use).
That ain't it.
For a couple of reasons.
#Washington #DC
— Shane B. Murphy (@shanermurph) January 16, 2021
-UNKNOWN EMERGENCY-@dcfireems fire crews appear to be at the scene of the US Capitol building for an unknown emergency matter.
First alarm response on scene (from the looks of it on camera).
Cc: @alanhenney @RealTimeNews10 https://t.co/qzbbgKyTyx pic.twitter.com/PvZQsvvqsE