Unless one believes in a “soul”
then there’s a very basic issue with the fundamental claims about what it is to be trans, and which does feed into Cunquat’s response.
All that *any* person can experience is what it is to be themself. Intense discomfort with one’s own body does *not* = accurately identifying which group you *do* belong in. Every trans woman has become a trans woman by having - and this shouldn’t be controversial - a *male* person’s assumption of what it is to be a woman, and an assertion that they are also one. How far you go along with the claims that trans activists make - whether you buy into meaningless mantras like “trans women are women” depends ultimately on the extent to which you think male people’s ideas of what it is to be a woman should be taken literally
Based on the fact - and it is fact - that a trans woman is, by definition, living a male person’s idea of what it is to be a woman, it’s not unreasonable to notice that it’s often male people who seem to be performing the most ludicrous caricatures of femininity who don’t “pass” at all.
(, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 11:20, Reply)