“Transgender” Simplified by Bev Jo

If all females refused to look like porn/drag queens but instead looked the dignified ways men designate for themselves, which many feminists in the Seventies once chose, then not only would young women and girls be able to see images to let them know they aren’t freaks or somehow males in female bodies. And the men professing to be women would have nothing to copy or fetishize. The trans game would be over.

This is where feminists need to be honest with themselves about their motives and how much they care to protect other females. Fake femininity is about attracting men (or bringing that het role-playing game into our Lesbian communities) and competing with other women. It’s revealing when women say they want to give up “being beautiful” to not play the game, because that reveals that they still think the ugly artifice and superficiality of male femininity is attractive, as opposed to grotesque and ugly. Why don’t even feminists think more deeply?

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