fuck cis feminism.

3 months ago

fuck cis feminism.

I haven’t seen a single trans person deny that anti-abortion laws are often rooted in misogyny. I really haven’t. We’re genuinely not asking you to ignore this. However, when you’re talking about these things, when you say things like ‘this harms women’ or ‘this is bad for women’ or post anything with a picture of a uterus or a vuvla cupcake or whatever and talk about women women women, you’re being a cissexist asshole. You’re telling me that either I’m a woman because of my uterus or I’m just not important. You’re telling my DMAB trans siblings that they aren’t women because they don’t have these parts. You’re telling me my personal experiences with abortion that had a strong relation to my transness aren’t important, that the work I’ve done for the pro-choice movement is meaningless. Above all, you’re telling me that because the lifers see me as a woman because of my genitals, you will too.

Because I’ve seen that excuse. And do you know how much that fucking hurts? Do you know how much it hurts to know that the assholes trying to take away the little control you’re allowed over your body misgender you, but those trying to stop that do the same thing? And excuse me while I ignore the cis women’s tears here but when you talk about reproductive rights you talk about abortions. Maybe even IVF for cis women. You talk about how important it is that women have abortion rights and if men could get pregnant this wouldn’t be an issue and all the rest of it and you never mention that men DO get pregnant, you never mention that a lot of countries demand we are sterilized before we are legally recognized as our gender.

What about our fucking rights, eh? What about my reproductive rights? What about my right to bodily autonomy, my right to have hormones and surgery without some cis gatekeeper telling me I’m just not trans enough because I still wear skirts? What about our rights to be recognized as our ACTUAL FUCKING GENDERS without being lumped under ‘women’ because you people find it too hard to include us at all. Actually, I don’t think you even find it hard. I think cis feminists seem to find it harrowing and painful to even consider including us.

You talk about how women are marginalized because vaginas are seen as bad things and you never mention how your own communities marginalize women without vaginas. You worship at the altar of the vulva and talk about how important periods are to shared womanhood or whatever else and leave trans women at the sidelines, while telling DFAB trans folk that they’re only trans because the patriarchy made them hate their ‘womanhood’.

You lionize the vilest anti-trans second-wavers, you stick up for Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, you talk about lesbian sex like it can only ever include vaginas, you tell me I should feel shared womanhood with you because I was born with a set of organs I didn’t even want…

No, fuck you, cis feminism. Fuck you. You are a movement of primarily cissexist assholes. I am unfollowing more and more of you every day because of how many of you I see sticking up for cissexism or talking about how mean us trans folk are for daring to ask for more inclusive language. I see you crying cis tears at ‘die cis scum’, I see you bullying my trans siblings out of activism, I see you sticking up for well-known cissexists every day and I want nothing more to do with any of you.