Even from a categorical standpoint I don’t see how the distinction matters. Like, if the categories were “can give birth” and “can’t/won’t give birth” that’s one thing because the “can’t/won’t” category would include trans and cis women but having the categories be “trans women” and “women who can give birth” feels very gender essentialism to me. By that logic we should also have a separate category for cis women that can’t/won’t give birth but then at that point why even differentiate based on whether they’re trans or cis at all?
I mean, I’m happy for you and your partner I suppose, but like you’re creating an unnecessary and arbitrary divide between cis and trans women for no real reason. Plenty of trans women can and do have biological children, so if it’s an issue of being able to have kids at all (which it seems to be going off of your other comments) their ability to give birth doesn’t really matter. The only time it would matter is if a trans woman and a cis man wanted a child but even then there’s ways around that, albeit in slightly more complicated ways. And also, you’re not receiving negative feedback due to a lack of “enthusiastic praise for trans positivity”, your getting negative feedback because you came onto a trans sub to proclaim your opinion that trans women are “categorically different” than cis women and are treating it like a fact when it simply isn’t
Even from a categorical standpoint I don’t see how the distinction matters. Like, if the categories were “can give birth” and “can’t/won’t give birth” that’s one thing because the “can’t/won’t” category would include trans and cis women but having the categories be “trans women” and “women who can give birth” feels very gender essentialism to me. By that logic we should also have a separate category for cis women that can’t/won’t give birth but then at that point why even differentiate based on whether they’re trans or cis at all?
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I mean, I’m happy for you and your partner I suppose, but like you’re creating an unnecessary and arbitrary divide between cis and trans women for no real reason. Plenty of trans women can and do have biological children, so if it’s an issue of being able to have kids at all (which it seems to be going off of your other comments) their ability to give birth doesn’t really matter. The only time it would matter is if a trans woman and a cis man wanted a child but even then there’s ways around that, albeit in slightly more complicated ways. And also, you’re not receiving negative feedback due to a lack of “enthusiastic praise for trans positivity”, your getting negative feedback because you came onto a trans sub to proclaim your opinion that trans women are “categorically different” than cis women and are treating it like a fact when it simply isn’t