You are not Dr. King, so shut it
A popular argument that gendergoons use against feminists in all this arguing over sex and gender is that we’re “white supremacists,” because apparently white people who want us to believe they are actually the opposite sex have lost their white status or something. My argument that women of color are even less tolerant of this bullshit than we white women are is falling on deaf ears; recently, Alice Walker has added her two cents to the debate and I’m hearing now that they’re calling her a white supremacist too. Okay, it’s possible for a person of color to be a white supremacist, yes, in the sense of supporting the idea of whites as the supreme race, whatever the fuck that means. But in practice, how many people of color with such beliefs are there? And since when is Alice Walker anywhere near one? And why would I expect these assholes to have ever read Alice Walker when they’ve never so much as cracked a basic human biology textbook published before 2010?
(Okay, I’ve never read Alice Walker either, as of this writing. But unless every single person claiming to have read her has in fact read her completely wrong, the woman’s never been for the idea of any supreme race, much less whites being that supreme race. And it’s irrelevant anyway, because trans is not a race.)
Here I am tempted to add my voice to the chorus admonishing these fools to stop dragging black people into gender arguments. I would be a hypocrite if I did; I think there are some valid parallels between the civil rights movement and what is happening now, and so occasionally I draw those parallels. But certainly, gendergoons need to stop drawing dishonest parallels. It’s insulting.
For starters, the entire basis of the gendergoon movement is men claiming to be women, women claiming to be men, and both men and women claiming to be neither man nor woman. But if you look at the civil rights movement, black people were not demanding equal rights based on claiming to be white people. Their basis was that black people are just as human as white people and therefore deserve the same human rights.
“Yes,” a gendergoon might reply. “That’s all we’re after. Trans women, for instance, are just as human as cis [sic] women are, therefore deserve the same human rights as all women.”
Of course men who claim to be women are human beings. But they are not women, and therefore are not entitled to women’s spaces or women’s resources, which women have for very specific sex-based reasons. So-called “trans women” are not the same sex as women, therefore do not have the same sex-based needs and requirements as women.
Black people and white people deserve the same access to water fountains because both black people and white people need water. Women do not need access to urinals because women do not have penises with which to aim a urine stream. We sit down when we pee unless we use special equipment to do otherwise. Most of us would prefer not to do that under most circumstances. It’s just one more thing to clean when we could just sit down on a toilet and then use toilet paper afterwards instead.
Black people and white people deserve the same access to sports teams because both black people and white people can play sports. Women need separate sports teams because we have more physical differences from men than black people have from white people, and some of those differences are dangerous to us, especially in contact sports.
When Jim Crow imposed separate white and black facilities, it was white people, the dominant racial class, who demanded these separate facilities. When women’s restrooms were introduced, it was women who demanded them in a world in which men are the dominant sex class. Men resisted the introduction of women’s restrooms. Men were offended at the idea of women’s restrooms.
Men are still offended at the idea of women’s restrooms. But now they can pretend that putting an end to women’s restrooms is some kind of social justice movement.
Imagine if the white supremacists of the 1950s and 1960s had gotten the bright idea to start pretending to be black. Then decided to start acting like utter lunatics, denouncing black people who resisted them as “racist against black people.” Then started selling dubious, dangerous skin-lightening treatments and skin-grafting surgeries so that black children could identify as white children. The equivalent of all that is what women and children are facing now at the hands of crazy, hateful men.
I wonder how many more women have to be raped and impregnated by their prison cellmates, how many more women have to suffer concussions from male teammates in rugby, how many more children have to be involuntarily sterilized before the public finally figures this out.