(Responding to: Speaking as someone who was nominally pro-trans, but has been increasingly turning away from that for various reasons, I really don’t understand why there can’t be a third option for transgender people.)

The problem with that is it still denies reality. Men are not a third sex even if they look like drag queens, and less feminine women are not a third sex (though the majority of F2Ts are Fem.)

It still plays into the cult and lies and female-hating. Why are men so precious that they have to have a special category that considers them oppressed? Men claiming to be women send us rape and death threats and are among the most dangerous of men. Women posing as men are far less in danger than Butches. This just continues the appropriation.

No, Gay men have enormous privilege and will not stop being considered men. (Recently, a Lesbian was telling me about what big business the AIDS industry is and asked me to not tell her name or she’d be killed. Another Lesbian said when she volunteered to help gay men with AIDS, 80% of donations were stolen, even while the director was making $150,000 a year. Now he makes $300,000. All the fuss over what is an STD that primarily men get.)