>>21493908To see trans women as women is misogynistic.
They did not have to go through the same things as biological women. The monthly bleeding. The period pains. Being considered the "weaker sex" since childhood. The systematic oppression in many parts of life and the world. Plus, the same stigma of the gender role of "woman" is not and never has been placed on them, where you are seen as a potential loss of labour by employers and paid that way because you COULD get pregnant (gender pay gap).
It is not harder to be a woman than to be a man or a trans woman. But it is different. A different course of life, shaped by the social fabric.
Trans women also have their own story, their own struggle and their own problems. Yet they will NEVER have the exact same experience of what it is like to be born a woman and to be perceived as such throughout their lives.
Trans women cannot and should not be seen as biological women. It is simply unfair for them to enrich themselves with the hard-won privileges that generations of feminists have been responsible for. They should not be allowed to occupy things like protected women's spaces, women's shelters and other things.
Violence against trans women is different from violence done to women. Very few trans women live in a heteronormative relationship that conforms to the "classical" division of roles (more common in more rural areas or conservative cultures). Yet this is the source of most violence against women.
TL;DR Trans women should be, and in some cases already are, given their own level of privilege, but they should not be allowed to benefit twice and then take on the privileges of biological women. This effectively makes trans women more privileged than biological women (being trans AND a woman) and this must not and will not happen.
That is why intersectional and/or queer feminism will fail after everyone realises this
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Greetings, your friendly latex TERF from next door.
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