Transition, 'inclusion' etc all have political ramifications. Instead of buying into the remarkably masculinist assumptions of queer theory that the dissolution of boundaries is always good, we should be examining them from the point of group power relations.

But the question isn't being asked. Who has power here?
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She's right. It cannot be a right to identify into a group you are not objectively a member of, because the boundaries of that group, which are what secure their group protections, are instantly voided. You have to create a separate target category. https://t.co/XkzCpxsjMl
— Caroline - Real Feminists XX \U0001f1ff\U0001f1e6 (@radicalhag) April 3, 2019
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There are status differences among classes of women - race, sexuality, economic class - and they continually come up in feminism as things we have to be aware of and combat. Men don't care about low-status women - look at prostitutes, the various NGO food-for sex scandals etc.
— Caroline - Real Feminists XX \U0001f1ff\U0001f1e6 (@radicalhag) November 20, 2019
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