I believe in gender liberation.
Female oppression and the oppression of women is real and it sucks. I hate that a false hierarchy of male over female (and by extension man over woman) has been created in so many societies and religions — and I hate that some feminists are insisting on maintaining that hierarchy just so they can be transphobic. I hate that some feminists think this means we need to destroy religion, thereby invalidating and erasing the work of millions of feminists of faith who have worked so hard for equality within their religions.
Male and female aren’t as different as extremists on both sides want you to believe. Males and females are in fact equal! We are in fact biologically very similar. Sex is not and has never been a binary; it is a spectrum, with a bimodal distribution. Believing in bioessentialism, that there is an insurmountable gulf between male and female, and that males and females have inherent traits and behaviors, is antifeminist.
Gender, as a social construct, is complicated. It can be a form of euphoric expression, a way to connect to your culture or religion or ethic identity and express joy in belonging, to connect to your ancestors and your descendants — but it can be also way for that culture to oppress you.
Trans people are on the forefront of dissecting all of this, of playing with gender and sex in ways that tease it apart from the oppressive systems our societies built simultaneously with these identities. We are, in essence, abolishing the traditional social construct of gender and building it anew as as a form of individual human expression, not a system of oppression linked to birth sex.
And if gender critical feminists, radfems, and gender abolitionists aren’t on board with that, then I’m not sure what more trans folks could possibly do.
https://hadeantaiga.wordpress.com/2023/11/24/gender-liberation/
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