People who is trans

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To be honest this sub isn't a monolith, the only basic views are (to my mind): sex is biological, women are oppressed primarily due to their sex, and gender and gender roles are a construct that hinder people, rather than help them.

I fully agree.

Many people here are LGB, some are trans themselves, or detransitioners. Despite detractors wanting to paint us all as rich white feminists, people here are from around the world.

I'm glad to hear that there are several people with different backgrounds, it's healthy.

A lot of people here (myself included) would take umbrage at you calling yourself a girl when you are a transwoman. Your physical body and lived experiences are different from "cis" women. Also, the fact you call yourself a "girl" rather than a woman, while being 27yrs old feels like you are infantilising yourself.

I'm from Sweden so my vocabulary isn't the largest, for me, girl or women is the same thing in my head, I just wrote girl because it's the first thing that came up in my head. It has nothing to do with infantilising myself. If I had better knowledge in english I would probably use "women". Anyway, thanks for noticing the mistake, I learn!
Ok here we don't agree with each other here, and it's ok. I don't see any different in behavior or appearance between myself and my friend who is also a sporty women like me. Yes I did a transition, but I have no obligation to tell anyone about this, my medical history isn't an open archive, I am a woman and society hasn't had a single problem problem with it. I'm a women as much as my friend in my opinion, everything else is just an attempt to create an unnecessary conflict, and I do not see any points to do that.

Probably everyone here would think you are a gender non-conforming male.

That's sad for me to hear.

many accept that transition can be necessary to relieve dysphoria, but encourage it as a last resort,

I totally agree. If there's another way instead of a transition, it's a way better way! For some, including me, I couldn't handle being in the male shell, I felt very bad. There are many pros and cons about a transition and it's very important to think about the decision for a long time, that's nothing you decide during a month or a year. For me, it was a process that took place under several years.

rather than first. Many are concerned about people who transition without having dysphoria.

I agree. I can't understand how one can not have dysphoria and transition. But I don't judge them, because I don't know what they are experiencing. If they are feeling it's the right choice despite not having any dysphoria, I wish them as good luck as I do to others too.

It's important to recognise that everyone here accepts people who are gender non-conforming - that as a man you can wear dresses and makeup, and as a woman you can wear a suit and have short hair. Neither choice makes you less of a man or a woman. But by choosing to actually call yourself a woman or a man respectively you are relying on and reinforcing gender stereotypes - it implies that by putting on a dress you become a woman, when all that being a woman entails is having a female body.

I agree here too. In a perfect world (according to me), everyone can wear all clothes, regardless of gender or identity. But we are not there yet, unfortunately, today's society is a binary system, at least here in my town.

Trans activists often feel we are against trans people or trans rights, but the issue is what is considered "trans rights". I doubt anyone here supports, e.g. murder, violence against trans people, employment or education discrimination, housing discrimination, ostracism or sexual harassment of trans people.

We are concerned with violent rhetoric ("I punch TERFs", "TERFS can choke on my womanly dick","All TERFs deserve to be shot in the head" etc) and literal violence against gender critical people (a woman at Speakers Corner was punched, there was a bomb threat against women organising to take about gender, many women have been physically harassed in marches and meetings, many lesbians talk about feeling pressured into sex with transwomen, or not having a rape believed).

We are concerned with homophobia ("cis lesbians are vagina fetishists", "if you won't accept women with dicks as partners then you're a bigot", "lesbians are so privileged","butch lesbians are just men").

We are concerned with sexism ("Talking about your period problems is cissexist", "feminism needs to centre and elevate trans women","male socialisation isn't a thing/transwomen weren't socialised male","people with a cervix","pussy hats are trans exclusionary", "abortion isn't just a women's issue")

We are concerned with protecting the most vulnerable women, and keeping domestic abuse shelters, prisons and changing rooms female only (a man who claimed to be transgender assaulted women in a shelter, many transwomen who wish to transfer to female prisons are sex offenders).

We are concerned with protecting children, many of whom will grow up to be healthy gays and lesbians, from permanent, irreversible changes that make them life-long medical patients. Its a tricky subject and feelings on this vary, but its undeniable that children and teenagers do not have as fixed an identity, and that by simple affirming gender feelings without first exploring potential underlying mental health problems physicians are disregarding their duty to "do no harm".

We are concerned with the lies spread by trans rights activists - that sex is a spectrum (when there are a tiny number of intersex people, who face a whole raft of issues and mostly do not want their narratives co-opted), that transwomen can get periods, that transwomen never had male socialisation, that transwomen win in female-only sports due to their hard work and not their male body, that TERFs are violent, that there are no detransitioners, that puberty blockers and hormones have been fully tested and are safe, that neo-vaginas and neo-penises are just like the real thing.

We are concerned...with a lot of things actually. Whether or not you find these views transphobic is ultimately up to you, just make sure you understand what people actually believe, and the statistics and sources that back them up.

Thanks for sharing your concerns. I agree with almost everything, some not. But as you said, it's up to everyone to have there own opinion. I appreciate that you wrote a detailed answer. Very nice of you.

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