#jrkisnottransphobic

[xuxunette]

JKR is not transphobic and you shouldn't be either

So, I've recently witnessed a series of opinions that baffles me.

Women born with a female reproductive system experience a series of challenges that are unique to us.

Historically, we are a group of people oppressed because of our reproductive system. Kept hidden in the gynaeceum to bear children, refused the right to education, refused the right to vote, forcibly bodily mutilated (excision) etc.

That, in the interest of patriarchal societies.

These inequalities and injustices still exist.

Trying to address the unique challenges women born with a female reproductive system faces is not trying to exclude people who weren't born with a female reproductive system, the same way that addressing the challenges women with breast cancer face is not exclusive of patients who suffer from another type of cancer.

Genderfluidity should not be oppressive to women's rights.

I do believe trans people know that, and I also believe the episodic buzz around JKR being transphobic is not well thought out and come from gut reactions that are well-meaning but misguided (I hope).

So no, I don't believe that trying to help biological women around the world with the unique problem of menstruation is transphobic or detrimental to women who don't menstruate. And saying so is hurtful to many people who are less fortunate than you, the audience of the English speaking internet.

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