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I would be interested to hear trans’ users opinions on whether they view themselves and/or prefer to be treated as literally the same as the other biological gender, or something different.
E.g., male-to-female trans folks, do you hold that there is only one kind of woman and you are no different from those born as women?
Or do you think that transgender people have a fundamentally different experience, and thus trans women are a little different category of women?
I don’t mean any offense by the question, I’d really just like to know how people see themselves.
Yep, my point exactly. Admittedly I am not a trans person, but my understanding is that trans people have slightly different concerns, protections and risks than cis people.
I am a woman who is trans.
Trans women are women. Cis women are women.
I am not a cis woman.
For 99% of issues, the trans/cis distinction doesn't matter and we are the same. Where it matters is on issues of healthcare. That's pretty much it.(*) This is the only area I don't want to be treated the same, because it's the only consistent difference between trans women and cis women.
My lived experience is not fundamentally different from other women. We've experienced most of the same things. The biggest difference is that for the first two years of transitioning, I was treated like garbage by strangers because I didn't look feminine enough to be considered a woman. But even then, a bunch of cis women experience that too!
All these laws and all this discrimination, it's all because too many people are ignorant on the science of sexual diversity, refusing to admit that neither sex nor gender is binary because it wasn't what they learned growing up. Now that ignorance has fueled misinformation to run rampant, E.g. the Cass review, the public and politicians still assert their false information and bigotry -- even when every major medical association states over and over that trans people -- and trans healthcare -- is scientifically valid, and even when new reports come out that disprove the misinformation in the Cass review.
Trans people are facing legislative genocide in the US right now and it's getting worse every day. I am terrified. If anyone doesn't believe me about how bad it is for trans people right now, look at Erin Reed's reporting on substack.
If the UK doesn't get their shit together, trans people may very well face the same horrors there too.
Right, so those are two typical TERF (trans-exclusionary radical/reactionary "feminst") talking points. Edit: I am not insinuating that you are a terf in any way or that you aren't presenting your viewpoint in good faith.
Neither do most trans people once they are treated for it, by having access to health care. I don't think it's a big deal that fundamentally separates cis and trans women, especially to the point of excluding one group or the other from spaces, events, or with laws.
While it's true that cis people didn't grow up socialized as their opposite gender, neither did a lot of trans people in the last 20 years, because they had supportive parents and access to gender-affirming health care from a young age. I say this because socialization and upbringing is not a constant among trans people, and if it's not a constant, it shouldn't be used as justification for laws against all trans people.
But even if we ignore them and focus on trans people starting transition after age 18, it still doesn't justify any of the discrimination these laws are doing. It doesn't justify exclusion. Trans people aren't any less valid because they started transitioning -- or were forced to delay transitioning until -- after age 18. And it most certainly does not mean that trans women aren't women. Gender identity is innate and rooted in science and biology. Being trans is not a choice.