I had a nice reply written and my power went out so this an example of what I'm talking about from a radical feminist author, Janice Raymond. Other notable, more recent anti-trans radical feminists are Sheila Jeffreys and Julie Bindle.
Wiki:
In 1979, Raymond published a book on transsexualism called The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. Controversial even today, it looked at the role of transsexualism – particularly psychological and surgical approaches to it – in reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes, the ways in which the medical-psychiatric complex is medicalizing “gender identity” and the social and political context that has helped spawn transsexual treatment and surgery as normal and therapeutic medicine.
Raymond maintains that transsexualism is based on the "patriarchal myths" of "male mothering," and "making of woman according to man's image." She claims this is done in order "to colonize feminist identification, culture, politics and sexuality," adding: "All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact, appropriating this body for themselves .... Transsexuals merely cut off the most obvious means of invading women, so that they seem non-invasive."
tl;dr
Transwomen are men, tools of the patriarchy, who appropriate female bodies in order to rape them and use male privilege to further the patriarchy's agenda.
That hurts to read from people who I would normally consider an ally. There's some great quotes from the other authors I mentioned too. Let it be clear that I have no problem with feminism in general. It's still needed in our society. But these women...
|