ACKNOWLEDGING “TRANS” AS A COHERENT CONCEPT IS A FATAL OWN GOAL FOR FEMINISTS

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“Trans people” is being sold to us as a socially acceptable form of male sexual fetishism

Still, even though “trans” is both nonsensical and untruthful, we must acknowledge that an industry exists to get these concepts enshrined in law and accepted by the larger culture. This industry has seen a tremendous amount of success in the U.S.

“Trans” is the commercialization of a fetish that objectifies women’s biology to further male sexual entitlement. And it should go without saying that furthering male sexual entitlement is fundamentally anti-feminist. It is not possible to both advance the goal of feminism (women’s liberation via the enshrinement of women’s sex-based rights) and champion the commercialization of men’s entitlement to female sex. Using phrases like “trans people” sets us back, if our goal is to liberate women.

So-called transgenderism is the branding of a fetish, at the heart of which is owning women’s biology. Through “trans,” women’s objectification is sold back to us by branding it as progressive. This includes not just men pretending to be women, but also the recent phenomenon of the spike in young women reporting to “gender clinics” for double mastectomies and testosterone. These young women are seeking to escape the male sexual entitlement that they encounter all around them – from street harassment to pornography to the everyday sexual exploitation of women in advertising.

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