Male Entitlement to Women's Spaces

[Zooey]

By the way, I identify as bigendered, so thanks for doubting the authenticity of such identities in a previous post.

Let me be clear, I don't understand those identities. At all. I can't see them. That does not mean they're not real. I try to acknowledge and respect it as best I can. Like I said, if a person is willing to at least identify as "not a man", that's enough to be going on with for me at this point.

By the way, I think you want to be careful talking about male privilege here. Yes, it is definitely thing, and yes I have benefited from it. But so too have many transwomen.

I have benefited from it. I was never told not to study STEM, and I was rewarded in my career because of how people perceived me. IMO, it's incredibly important to acknowledge the cases where we have benefited from it, and many trans women do themselves and other women a disservice by not doing so. My goal is for ALL girls and women to experience the same benefits that I did growing up, and I work hard in my industry to help make that happen.

By the way, I've never cared for male chauvinist BS, and I am an active ally of women in my workplace. All of my CD friends are sensitive caring people, and don't go around disrespecting women either. So when I hear you paint us all with a broad brush, it gets my dander up.

Right - "Not all men". I KNOW "not all men" are like that, but when "basically no men" publicly stand up to the ones that are, including on this forum, then it's still a problem.

Zooey: Because personally (i.e. in my perspective only) I struggle to accept that men can assume the identity of & speak as if they represent all womanhood, cutting down cd's & others who have not fully transitioned in the process. As for "self-identified men feeling entitled to women's spaces" I guess I am just not a flaming feminist. I live my life not paying particular attention to how others are living their lives unless it is blatantly put in my face. Please consider, as I was told many years ago, equal does not mean fair. And vice versa.

I don't speak for all women, much less all trans women. A lot of trans women disagree with me on a lot of things. I speak for me, based on my life experiences and learnings thus far, and this is a philosophical issue that I am passionate about.

I also will gladly own up to being a flaming feminist.