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What Does It Mean to Be a Woman?
This tweet came across my timeline this week, which at first made me laugh, and then gave me pause:
The idea that womanhood can be reduced to wearing dresses and nailpolish, and now, being moody once a month, has been one of the most troubling side-effects of the transgender movement. We are letting men with a mental illness (gender dysphoria) determine what it means to be a modern woman. Is it enough to feel like a woman? And does feeling like a woman just mean we’re cranky around our periods?
Spain’s beauty queen is a transgender activist with a message for the schoolchildren she visits: “There are women with a penis and men with a vagina, because the only key part of being a woman is to be and feel like a woman.” https://t.co/pxX9hwUv0E
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) July 13, 2018
I’ve always been a tomboy; it didn’t occur to me to try my wedding dress on until a week before my wedding; too late to make any alterations to what amounted to a potato sack. I wore red sneakers and forgot to get a manicure beforehand. Does that make Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner or Angela Ponce more womanly than me, because they like to wear pretty dresses and high heels? Dressing like a woman doesn’t make them more of a woman than me, someone actually born with female parts.
Transgender activists understand the shaky ground they’re on; it’s why they’ve begun inventing new ways in which they are women. It’s not enough for them to feel like a woman emotionally, now they feel like us physically. The Twitter thread below by Ultrans Instinct Bria was instructive about how little even those who pretend to be women actually understand the biology behind reproduction. Like most men, they believe that PMS is just about being moody; that being a woman is exemplified by being cranky women once a month.
Without a uterus, what muscle exactly is doing the cramping?
The “around the 10th of every month” line made me laugh. This is a common misconception from men about our cycles; they are called monthly, but they vary dramatically; very few women have a predictable period around the same date every month. Months have different lengths (February has 28; July 31); and our cycles don’t align with the calendar. The timing never falls neatly on one date every month.
In the process of emasculating themselves, transgender individuals with the biological parts of men who nevertheless identify as women, are through their activism stripping women of what it means to be female. There is no female version of “emasculation,” but that’s exactly what is happening here.
By accepting the transgender narrative, we are letting men define what it means to be a woman. We are letting them take our female athlete of the year awards, win our beauty contests, and best us at our sports matches. One would think feminists would be standing up for the definition of womanhood, but they’re too busy playing along with this delusion.
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Oh I don’t give them one. The surgeons are butchers and the shrinks are quacks.
… or did they?
Right, but “trans’ people are being strongly encouraged to make these demands by psychologists and doctors who are supposed to be sane.
This is kind of an issue for me, because I have actually had the experience of being delusional, and having people get angry with me while I was delusional, and it didn’t help. I never demanded that anyone share my delusions: I attempted to convince those around me that my delusions were real, but that wasn’t the issue. At one point, I was staying with relatives, and was having a total psychotic break: I sat on their couch and said nothing and did nothing for two or three days; my mind was reeling with delusions the whole time. One of my relatives responded to this by becoming enraged with me and accusing me of being lazy; she knew that I had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and she knew that I was off my medication at the time this happened, but somehow it didn’t seem to sink in with her. Or, she just didn’t care.
Most people have no idea what it is like to be delusional, and that is a good thing, but I do know what it is like, and I don’t think it is helpful to respond with anger. We should absolutely refuse to go along with the delusions, and have the person locked up if necessary, but it isn’t a good idea to treat insane people as though they are sane.
It may be that one reason why people get angry with “trans” people, and why some of the people who knew me became angry with me is because in both cases, we obviously weren’t/aren’t totally insane: most trans people seem to be fully capable of holding down a job, for instance. I never heard voices or saw things; never believed I was another person, always knew who I was, where I was, the date and the time. The fact that it is possible for people-a few people, anyway-to be so cogent and so crazy all at the same time is scary; in a lot of ways, it is actually scarier than someone who thinks he is George Washington. And anger is very much related to fear, and the fear is totally understandable.
I am late to the post @bethanymandel but I see your crazy Tweet and raise you another:
And a headline for good measure:
Boy, ain’t that the truth…
Which gets us back to the “wharrr is uterus” for the original trans person’s periods to act upon? Even if person had “bottom surgery,” that is only the faking of a vagina. Or is something missing here? Do they get oscillating levels of grouchy drugs?
Transexualism is only one symptom among a myriad of psychiatric disorders that many of these people have. A significant portion of them are psychiatric basket cases. We do them a great disservice when we patronize them rather than pointing them toward remedial psychiatric/psychological treatment. As a society we apparently have decided to tolerate sky high suicide rates in this group rather than risk being accused of being judgmental, trans-phobic, or politically incorrect.
I know a little more than I’d like about this…
Apparently post op trans women require artificial lubricants and I believe some have started marketing lubricating tampons to post op trans.
I know bio female hormones fluctuate. Male hormones do, as well, but not to such extremes or in such short time cycles. I do not know if hormonal specialists are cycling hormones for transwomen.
If they are, though, there are withdrawal symptoms that results in moodiness. Cramping is probably a bowel problem exacerbated by hormonal flux. My monthly cramps are typically a combo of gut and uterus… and this is imitated in pre-labor… which is why one of the signs of pre-labor is bowel evacuation… (labor is also triggered by a shift in hormones).
Thank you – now we all know more about this than we’d like :D