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Lightwing's avatar

This is one of your best. Thank you. This is exactly the crux of the issue.

I am still a woman when I run a chainsaw or work as hard as a man clearing my property or have dirt under my nails or wear steel shank logging boots. I am still a woman when my hair is frizzy and my face is covered in sweat and my clothes are covered in dirt. I am actually a very satisfied woman.

Glam does not a woman make. You can't define me with the word "feminine," although sometimes it applies to me, when I choose to embody that energy. Femininity is not a whole. It is only a part.

Also, I see that JKR is no longer pulling her punches or trying to make peace with these zealots. This is good. She shouldn't submit to their attempts to cow her.

Some trans women are starting to sound an awful lot like angry, deranged men trying to sell the idea that they have a right to dominate women's spaces and define women's identities - more right than women themselves. They are not happy to simply exist as trans women. They need to own "womanhood." This is exactly how (some) men act. It is not how (most) women act. It is the least female behavior - to dominate, to own, to conquer. This is commonly acknowledged as a male behavioral trait. I wonder if militant trans women know how ironic they appear to others?

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Matt's avatar

Great closing paragraphs there!

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