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Eliza Mondegreen's avatar

"If we take seriously Long Chu's logic of what being "female" is (hollowing yourself out to make room for another’s desire), an actual woman parroting "trans women are women" is the most "female" declaration possible. For her to say “trans women are women,” which is her saying, trans women are ME, is for her to perform a complete self-excavation, erasing herself entirely, to make room for a male’s desire. What more “female” act could you imagine?"

Perfectly put.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

The dissonance between your footnote with her tweet and the “female bodied” photo is something. How does one reconcile a very passing “female bodied” aesthetic with the idea that any body is a female body, regardless of passing?

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