Yay, Bint!

Bint Alshamsa had some very good news the other day.

I just want to celebrate it a bit.

There’s a Great Conversation in the Blog Next Door

Renegade Evolution has posted her perspective about all this stuff I’ve been posting about lately.

For those radical feminists who keep asking stuff like, “How can you call yourself a woman when women are telling you that you aren’t?” Aside from it not being a vote, other women acknowledge and respect my womanhood. If I have to pick someone to acknowledge or deny my identity, you’ll lose every time. Plus, I don’t have to.

And now, a few thoughts on this whole transgender thing that blew up while I was chillin’ in the sun…

I don’t get a lot of it. I don’t get a lot of folks objection to the term “cis”. I don’t get how folk who are so all about being women, yet warriors against gender-which yep, is largely constructed by society- but still, love their woman/female-ness and all, love, love, love it, get so riled up when some woman who might have been born with different parts, but felt that woman/female-ness all along just wants to be seen as who and what she is, and accepted as such. Then there are the lists of things that “real women/women born women” (puke) can do that those other women can’t…like have babies. Produce breast milk. Have periods. Except, you know, a lot of cis-women can’t do those things…they can’t have babies, or produce breast milk, and sooner or later they all stop having periods.

Does that make them “not women”? No one seems to want to answer that, but sometimes I feel like the answer out of some might be yes…

I also don’t get how some people who claim so much not to care about appearances get so angry at the appearances transwomen take on, be they gender ambigious or plain or “passing” or down-right girlie.

I don’t get how people who are so against gender turn around and attempt to enforce it themselves.

Read the whole thing!