I've heard some women say that trans women make them not feel like women anymore.

Imagine being that weak and fragile that even sitting next to a trans woman makes you feel like you don't have a vag anymore. If I sat down next to a trans female, this doesn't mean I'm not female anymore. Imagine having a cisgender identity that is SO fragile that anything breaks you. Imagine being that weak, I could never be like that.

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M Best Comment

According to studies, most people (in the UK at least) are pro-trans and anti-discrimination. Support for trans people is higher among women than men.

There is a small section of trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFS) who make the arguments that trans people undermine womanhood. As you say, it's ridiculous. The most important point to make is that trans people have negligible or zero negative impact on the lives of cis women.

There are not many of these people but they are very angry and committed. They also get a lot of disproportionate attention because they are platformed by the hard-right. This way, the right (who are usually anti-feminist on any other issue) can claim to be 'defending women'. They can't just say that they are against trans people (because that looks bigotted) so they gain traction and acceptability for their ideas by pitting minorities against each other. So TERFS get bigger platforms because they serve this function.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Burnley123 Oh okay I forgot all about TERFS, I knew I was aiming this post at something specific because there's this whole women first movement going on as someone else stated. I've also seen similar views around the internet growing and that's why I decided to address how I felt.

See, TERFS are weird and their argument has no logical sense because neuroscience defines trans as having a similar brain structure to the gender they associate with. Maybe there is a biological instinct in regards to trans people, maybe they do literally define that way because there's a reason for it.

Even if there wasn't, I learned recently that denial of someone's reality is mentally abusive.

TERFS need to realize that trans women are women. They go through the same things as women, they get attacked for being feminine too, harder than biological females because they were once men.

You see, the irony is of this feminist (conservative) logic is that by hating trans women and trans generally, they're feeding into the patriarchical notion of womenhood.

By thinking trans women are inferior for being feminine, well they must then think that biological women are inferior.

You can date women and hate them at the same time, I've seen it many times. That's not feminism in the least, it's dog whistles.