The psychological underpinnings of liberal support for transgender identity politics

It really is this simple:

• If you aren't disgusted by transwomen, you won't have to lie to yourself about them.
• If you don't hate women, you won't erase femaleness or feminism.
• And if you aren't terrified of men, you'll hold them responsible for the violence they commit.

Disgust, hatred and fear. Every emotion you project onto TERFs.

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.

Gender charts and graphics

I am no graphic designer, but I often try to get my ideas across visually, whether in charts or graphics. I have gathered most of them here for easy access.

Gender crit cheat sheet, also available as one page PDF:

Clarifying gender:

Another chart:

And related graphics:

A couple more charts, re. gender & race. First, on liberal power-blindness:

Next, on white vs. "cis":

More on "cis":

Intersectionality:

On brain sex/gender identity:

On "feeling like a woman":

On AFTAs (anti-feminist trans activists):

And more:

Some new additions-

On transing kids:

On blaming women:

To sum up:

Rachel Dolezal vs. Bruce Jenner: The Real Difference

There are, of course, a slew of new editorials out which purport to explain the difference - the identity politickers of the Left are tying themselves in pretzels to justify transgenderism while decrying transracialism, even though they have made this bed:

• Don't reduce women to vaginas? Don't reduce black people to epidermises.
• We're all female in the womb? We all descend from Africa.
• Intersex? Mixed Race.
• Infertile? Albino. (Albino Africans in Tanzania are hunted and killed because of attitudes like yours!)
• No shared girlhood? No shared black childhood.
• You can't police identities? WELP.

Anyhoo, the difference between how the Left treats transgenderism and transracialism is both simple and obvious.

Rachel is a villain because the Left does not believe in black brains (or at least - they know better than to admit such a belief.)

Bruce is a hero because the Left does believe in lady brains.

What's the difference between the idea of black brains and the idea of lady brains?

"Black brain" erases the experience of racist socialization. Some men experience racist socialization, so that experience cannot be erased.

"Lady brain" erases the experience of feminine socialization. No men experience feminine socialization, so that experience can be erased, with glee.

This is also why we can have an essay on how Rachel Dolezal is not a black woman because she did not grow up as a black girl, when no such standard holds for Laverne Cox or Janet Mock.

HTH!

[More thorough take on this issue here: Sex and Race and Boundaries on the Left.]

Editing to add: For those asking why Dolezal couldn't work for civil rights and socialize with black people as a white person: 1) I agree, and 2) Why are we not allowed to ask why Jenner couldn't simper in expensive lingerie on a magazine cover as a man?

Transgender identity politics and brainsex: the epitome of pseudoscience

Brainsex is the centuries-old, conservative idea that men and women have different brains - resulting in innately different personalities, which just happen to serve male supremacy. This is Jon Ronson, quoting 19th century doctor Gustave ale Bon:

Meanwhile, in 2015, male people become female via brainsex. What does a female brain mean? According to transwomen quoted here it means you like "being dominated and fucked in bed," are "super emotional and dramatic about silly things;" et cetera.

Brainsex now is just as sexist as brainsex was in the 1800s. However, the sexism of brainsex is not my topic today. As someone who values critical inquiry, what bothers me even more than the blatant sexism is the sheer level of anti-science thinking required to accept that transgenderism proves brainsex when in fact it disproves brainsex

WTF

If your thesis is that male humans and female humans have different brains, you must define male and female and those definitions must STICK. Male = sperm producer. Female = ova producer. The existence of males/sperm-producers who supposedly have "ladybrain" means THAT'S NOT A LADYBRAIN. 

THIS COPING METHOD OF CHANGING YOUR DEFINITIONS TO DISGUISE THE FAILURE OF YOUR HYPOTHESIS IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

P.S. for those who think the existence of (sexist, anti-scientific) brainsex theory differentiates transgenderism from transracialism/#wrongskin, I give you THE HISTORY OF BRAINRACE THEORY.

Stop bending yourselves in pretzels and just accept that human personality isn't innately sexed any more than it is innately racialized.

[For much more in-depth feminist analysis of the pseudoscience of brainsex, see Elizabeth Hungerford here as well as Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender and Rebecca Jordan-Young's Brainstorm.]