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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
My feeling is that this whole topic has become a minefield, with people fearful of expressing their opinions in case they get called trans-phobic. The thing is, it's a debate, no-one is being persecuted, people should be free to choose the words that they think expresses their feelings best and makes their viewpoint clear. I mean it's almost as if expressing oneself is becoming a mortal sin. No laws have been broken, no-one is preaching hate. People should not be guilted into suppressing their opinions when they have done nothing legally or morally wrong.
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Yes I agree.
This is a very good article actually talking about just that, in it also she pretty much down to a tee describes what I was trying to say earlier about what I think makes me a woman, lots and lots of women have said the exact same thing but when we say it we're told no we're wrong that isn't what makes us a woman, instead we have to just believe what someone else tell us makes us a woman :
My experience of being a woman is, for the most part biological. When I think about what makes me a woman, it’s all tangled up with my female body. It’s the embarrassment the first time I leaked on a chair during my period, the frustration of trying to buy a nice bra in TopShop when I was a D cup and none of my friends had reached a B yet. It’s having sex for the first time, discovering masturbation, having pregnancy scares, feeling my biological clock start to tick as I enter my late twenties. Having adult men shout ‘nice tits’ at me when I wasn’t quite fifteen yet. It’s as simple as having your bra’s underwire poke you in the chest all day or asking a stranger in a bathroom if she had a spare tampon. Small, universal experiences that any other woman – or at least any other cis woman – would understand.
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