If you answered C
(This is a complementary note for my story “What Do We Do About Women With A Penis?”)
You answered, “I don’t fully agree - while I understand some men are very feminine and choose to dress and act as women, they’re still biologically men. I can humor them on pronouns, but that doesn’t magically turn them into women.”
Here’s the thing. Sex and gender are different things. There’s a whole unpacking of it right here for you.
Trans women may have been born with male anatomy, and you might say we’re biologically male; but we’re neurologically female. When we talk about trans women being female, we’re referring to gender, not sex. (And to a larger or smaller degree, these are both impacted by social constructs.)
And if you don’t like the idea of a trans woman explaining sex and gender to you, here’s a white cisgender male — Robert Sapolsky PhD, Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Stanford. I interviewed Prof. Sapolsky in 2017 for the Empowered Trans Woman Summit.
You might not be a TERF, but you're definitely lacking understanding of the transgender experience. I strongly recommend you read this article by Julia Serano.
Feel free to read the rest of my article — but fair warning: unless you can allow for the possibility that trans women are women, my piece will make little sense to you.
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Read another story by Cassie Brighter:
■ Welcome, Welcome, Cassandra! — The Long Journey to Self-Acceptance ■ I Wasn’t ‘Annoyed’ at Your Misgendering Me ■ Why This Sudden Trans Kids Trend? ■ What Do We Do About Women With A Penis? ■ The Cage Around Me, The Rage Inside Me (a short poem) ■ Welcome, Welcome Cassandra! — The Long Journey to Self-Acceptance ■ Coming Out Trans To Your Children: A Step-by-Step Guide ■ A March for ALL Women: A Trans Woman’s Defense of the Pussyhat ■ Gender Transition and Living “One’s True Self” Are Different Things ■ Trans Women & The Single Story — How Chimamanda Got It Wrong ■ Divisiveness Is Dangerous — The Women’s March And Linda Sarsour ■ An Open Letter To A Good Man ■ Just a Bad Date