Do heterosexual men saying trans women are women realize that by saying it, if they refuse to have sex with a trans women, they'll be seen as transphobes, or could be called gay by trans women, and that if they accept, they're actually gay ? [it's a funny joke, right?]

This is just another way for men to oppress women. I think a whole lot of them secretly hate women and get a thrill out of taking away our rights. Some have gender dysphoria, while others are just predators.

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes. I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others. I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to. Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib. Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class. Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people. I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation. I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

"astonishingly clear and absolutely sharp" Virginia Woolf

Anybody can put suffragist colors in their display name. But the tweets tell a different story. Beware those that are trying to make terfs look bad. MRAs and TRAs act like this, not terfs.

I am relatively new to the gender wars. And, I admit, I have changed sides. I used to be a trans ally. Let them be who they want to be. But, then, I started listening to women and I started listening to the gay community. I have changed sides.

I will never understand how a male celebrity can post a photo like this, announcing that they’ve paid to buy a child and hire a woman’s body, and not only does it in no way affect his career but he’ll be publicly celebrated. Yet if you say a man’s not a woman your career is gone.

Female gets pregnant. Illustrating perfectly that gender identity does not change anyone's sex. How much clearer can it be?

When “trans women” make the news, they’re dominating something: the corporate ladder, women’s sports, and every other space reserved for women. When “trans men” make the news, they’re usually popping out babies. They aren’t defying gender roles; they’re the literal poster children.

That's SO ridiculous... #TheLittleMermaid

If calling a man "he" would cause him to take his own life, he should be in a psychiatric hospital receiving mental health care - not being blindly affirmed in his delusion.

500 million women and girls!!! Why is the UN and other INGO so committed to erasing women and girls? The use of “people” in this tweet is beyond problematic. The women and girls the UN needs to support are suffering because of their “sex”.

1/ As one commenter in this thread about Lesbian erasure at a French Pride event said, those who created the first Pride in 1970 must be "appalled and disgusted" at what's happening to Pride. True, that. And I would add, saddened.

Ne pas confondre sexe et genre, reconnaître ces deux notions et leur importance relative pour décrire le réel, cela fait aussi partie du travail des sciences. Mais attention aux instrumentalisations. afis.org/Intrusions-ideologi… @afis_science

It's mind-blowing... #SuperMarioMovie #SuperMarioBros #supermario #supermariotheme

It's crazy that the LGBTQ community thinks that is ok. I'm a lesbian and feel like my own community doesn't want to allow women to love only women. #RespectMySex #LGBWithoutTQ

So a penis wouldn’t define you as a man, but your breast did define you as a woman? #makeitmakesense