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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been thinking a lot about this thread the last few days. And a lot About the Caitlyn Jenner quote. Not to pile on on her but frankly I feel like it actually does get to the heart of the issue in a way I was skeptical about before.

I do not know what it feels like to feel like a woman. I am a woman and nothing feels wrong, and I actually literally can’t comprehend how I could possibly not feel like a woman. So clearly I am not transgendered. But I have a lifetime of experiences that shape how I view women and feminist politics. They come from having a period, from having a period, from being sexually harassed, from having a baby, from having a critically dangerous pregnancy, from having subpar experiences with doctors, from being called bossy. These things have shaped me. And while every biological woman navigate these hurdles differently, they do navigate them, and it is those shared experiences that many of us use to bond together. It’s the reason women in an office building pass along l the names of serial abusers, the reason that post partum depression was  something historically whispered about more by women than doctors. It’s women healing each other through pregnancies, through relationships etc.

And most of us learned this because of how we were treated as we grew up.

A trans woman, even a trans woman who transitions at a younger age will have had an entirely different set of experiences. And the trans movement has entered and begun to try to define what being a woman means because they have felt and feel so strongly that they are a woman. And I assume with that surety comes a belief that they therefore have that core “what are women about” things down. But the fact that they want to think about menstruations as something that should be defined as gender nonspecific is, IMO, proof that they do not have it down as much as they think.

I’m not in their head, I can’t hear their heart, but I think this is why you don’t have trans men saying this with the Same vehemence. Trans men also understand how formative and female those experiences are. I trust trans women to know their own minds and hearts. It feels like trans women do not trust biological women to know their own minds and hearts.

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This sums up my opinion much more eloquently than I could write.  Thank you.[/quote]

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