According to some in
trans health fields, we are on the verge of a
trans baby boom. Meaning more and more
trans females are giving or seeking to give birth. While there were a handful of
trans females who had given birth before Ms. Beatie became ignorantly known as the "pregnant
man", it was after her fifteen minutes of fame that other
trans females seeking a similar fame got themselves pregnant. I suspect this potential
trans baby boom is a combination of attention seeking
trans females and
trans females who have in their warped
trans minds convinced themselves that after giving birth they can further validate their
manhood by being viewed as
fathers.
In and of itself you might think, as women, besides the obvious feminist issues this disorder and its cruel
treatment evoke,
trans females having children really has little to nothing to do with me. Wrong. Because this specific function, the ability to create a life within and give birth to that life, is wholly a female experience. And as such, herein lies the problem when it comes to
trans thinking, if only female humans have the ability to give birth, and a
trans female (
transman) gives birth, is the birth experience no longer a female experience?
From a recent article:
Within the needs of trans people in pregnancy and birth is the challenge of addressing what seems like an obvious connection: between pregnancy and femaleness. Trans people are often neglected in the arena of pregnancy and birth because of the strongly-held notion that only female-identified people experience pregnancy and birth. While not all trans people, whether they were assigned female at birth or not, can experience pregnancy (because of infertility or hysterectomy), some can and do, prompting the need for our pregnancy and birth providers to accommodate.
Feminists have long fought against
trans males
(autogynephiles
) aggressively co-opting female spaces, calling into question the female experience and currently calling into question the very notion of
female. This in hopes that by undermining female legitimacy they can linguistically slip their maleness into the newly hollowed
female in some Silence of the Lambs like way, giving
trans males the female legitimacy they lack as men. Add this insanity to
trans females whom are legally (visually) recognized as
men having babies and now combining their efforts with the efforts of autogynephiles, further destabilizing not merely the semantics of
female BUT the very NATURE of female!
I am the first to scream that
female needs to be released from the Gender Straight Jacket that continues to bind and gag her, but subverting the nature of female and the female experience is clearly no way to go about it! Female doesnt simply have a her-story, she has an undeniable biology that nothing can weaken, no amount of drugs to her system, no removal of any healthy body part or parts and certainly no post modern semantics! These are indisputable truths sealed in the seeds of nature, but the laws of man unfortunately do not comply with the laws of nature. And in a
civilized society we're conditioned to eschew the laws of nature for the laws of man (patriarchy). It is these laws, man's laws that have the potential to bankrupt
female, thereby fostering a greater misogyny creating more self hating females and the circle goes 'round and 'round.
I'll save the harmful effects testosterone use (short and long term) have and can have on a growing fetus and button my lips on the high number of autistic children born to trans females already and avoid making any comparisons to trans baby boom babies being the thalidomide babies of the 21st century.
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