A Rant on Gender, September 2023
I was born with a vagina and I just want to announce, publicly, that I do not in any way feel like less of a woman because trans women exist. I am 100% okay with acknowledging that my trans sisters feel just as much like women inside as I feel like a woman inside. What makes a woman a woman? Is it breasts? What if I had breast cancer and had my breasts removed? Is it a uterus? Fallopian tubes? Ovaries? What if I had a hysterectomy and had all that removed to save my life? Would I still be a woman inside? What makes a woman a woman? Is it menstrual cycles? There are women before who did not have them, could not give birth, removed their breasts, and yet they are still women! Because that is how they feel inside. It is the same for trans women. Anyone who refuses to see that is simply blinded by hate. Your “womanhood” is extraordinarily fragile if it’s dependent on someone else not having it for themselves.
The only time I in my life that I ever feared rape in a ladies room was by a fellow cis female in the girl's locker room in high school. That's it. Trans women using the ladies bathroom have never posed a threat to me. Why do they not also deserve the privacy and relative safety of using the ladies' room? They also deserve this. They are women, too.
Conversely, if the only thing that makes someone a man is a penis, then I feel really sad for mankind. There is so much more than just that to manhood, or what makes someone feel like a man inside. I have known trans men that embody masculinity as much as and in some cases even more robustly than people born with penises. What if a man with a penis got into a motorcycle accident and lost his penis? Would he still be a man?
Gender is a social construct, imposed upon us as children. If the foundation of this country is every American citizen's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then that also includes personal identity. No one has the right to enforce identity of any kind onto another person. No one. Not even a parent. It is everyone and especially every American's right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness without having that defined by someone else or some religion that free American does not believe in. No one is harming you by not following your religion or simply being allowed to be themselves. That's the entire basis on which the original forefathers settled here. We are holding these truths to be self-evident in 2023, too. Deal with it and grow the fuck up.
Do better, America. You are better than this.
Spoiler alert: For the first two billion years of life on Earth, everything spawned in a female-only parthenogenesis of oceanic fluid that covered the entire surface of this planet. To accommodate our rise to land, we had to make the warm nourishing saltwater ocean mobile, and we needed an apparatus to seed it. The womb, a portable mini ocean, and the penis thus evolved to make impregnation and birthing mobile and land-ready.
Everything on this planet begins as female. Everything. All other genders are mutations of one.
The point is, one of us has been here a lot longer than the other. No, I am not in any way less of a woman because trans women exist. I am so much bigger than that.
The only time I in my life that I ever feared rape in a ladies room was by a fellow cis female in the girl's locker room in high school. That's it. Trans women using the ladies bathroom have never posed a threat to me. Why do they not also deserve the privacy and relative safety of using the ladies' room? They also deserve this. They are women, too.
Conversely, if the only thing that makes someone a man is a penis, then I feel really sad for mankind. There is so much more than just that to manhood, or what makes someone feel like a man inside. I have known trans men that embody masculinity as much as and in some cases even more robustly than people born with penises. What if a man with a penis got into a motorcycle accident and lost his penis? Would he still be a man?
Gender is a social construct, imposed upon us as children. If the foundation of this country is every American citizen's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then that also includes personal identity. No one has the right to enforce identity of any kind onto another person. No one. Not even a parent. It is everyone and especially every American's right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness without having that defined by someone else or some religion that free American does not believe in. No one is harming you by not following your religion or simply being allowed to be themselves. That's the entire basis on which the original forefathers settled here. We are holding these truths to be self-evident in 2023, too. Deal with it and grow the fuck up.
Do better, America. You are better than this.
Spoiler alert: For the first two billion years of life on Earth, everything spawned in a female-only parthenogenesis of oceanic fluid that covered the entire surface of this planet. To accommodate our rise to land, we had to make the warm nourishing saltwater ocean mobile, and we needed an apparatus to seed it. The womb, a portable mini ocean, and the penis thus evolved to make impregnation and birthing mobile and land-ready.
Everything on this planet begins as female. Everything. All other genders are mutations of one.
The point is, one of us has been here a lot longer than the other. No, I am not in any way less of a woman because trans women exist. I am so much bigger than that.
