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I was a GC/TERF too at one point and materialist feminism was sooooo helpful for me once I decided to leave the community. Great article, I hope it changes minds and reorients people’s flawed transphobic feminism in the fight direction.

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This is extraordinarily good - closely reasoned and rigorous in a way I suppose only someone arguing against their former position is likely to be. Excellent piece.

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Loved you in twitter before I left. Hope this makes some people think

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I love this so much it made me cry. The way you mixed a solid material analysis and flowing human empathy was beautiful and painful at the same time.

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Please I am trying to engage in good faith. I'm a gynephelia cis male dad of an FTM socially transitioned 13 yr old son. He asked me to use his male name and male pronouns and I do because my relationship with him is paramount.

He was just diagnosed with moderate anemia: ferritin level of 3 and hemoglobin of 10.5....

He is male because he says so. And yet ....there is the biologic reality of iron deficiency caused by monthly menstruation and the normal processing of those ginormous (unfertilized by the patriarchy) gametes.

I suppose I could go full Andrea Chu (in so far as her theory) and load him up with enough GnHA and T to stop that menstruation cold. Fight biology with biology!

Or accept Jesus as my Savior , do my best Nancy Regan (just say no to trans), and find that verse in the Bible where it says there are only two sexes and two genders. Praise the Lord and Hallelujah!

But I'm a theistic agnostic so I suffer in-between, which sounds kinda Buddhist / Christian. But I digress....contemplating religion seems easier than raising a child.

This debate seems always to evolve /devolve to two bright lines that are far apart and completely unrelated:

1) biological determinate (e.g. chromosones)

2) self declaration

Biological determinate has the exceptions (DSD)

Self declaration has the minor child consent problem and the prison rapist problem.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/pronoun-use-center-rape-case-involving-former-chowchilla-central-california-womens-facility-prisoner-tremaine-carroll/15696730/ per Andrea Chu and this judge, this person is a woman because she says so. Period.

A note about using the 'the numbers are so few / it's such a rare exception ' argument,: either it's allowed on both sides or it's not.

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