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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]How does giving Trans women rights diminish biological women's rights[/b]?

We're all in the same group as "female." I don't care if trans women want to join. The more the merrier.[/quote]

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It doesn't. I think JKR is dumb to make this about the bathrooms. I don't care about trans people advocating for rights at all. They should! They should absolutely do that and feminists should support them as an intersectional partner for advocating for equality.

Changing language so women don't exist is the issue. And it is an issue that trans people would I assume not like either, as they would then not have language to describe their own vision of their gender. [/quote]

I think you would do well to reframe your analysis here. No one is changing language so that women don't exist. Women exist, but not everyone who menstruates is a woman, and not all women menstruate.

I'm using the menstruation example because it is what set Rowling off this time. You can say that women exist, and you can say that some men menstruate. Neither invalidates the other. [/quote]

Humans who are born biologically female, ie women, menstruate. Maybe not all women menstruate for a variety of reasons, but it is a part of being biologically female and it is something that has shaped the experience of women throughout human history. I strongly disagree with divorcing women's issues from the word 'woman'. Watering down an advocacy group waters down the efficacy.

Saying BLM doesn't mean you're saying other lives don't matter. But calling out blackness for being a unique condition in america is important. The specificity is important because it calls out SPECIFIC prejudices faced by black americans.

Women have specific issues. Trans women have specific issues. Some of those issues overlap and some do not. Being specific about that does not mean being exclusionary, it means being precise and accurate with your language. [/quote]

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