I am tired of having to pretend that I share the same existence and identity as people who are literally redefining my own language to exclude me. I do not have to give up the words that I use to describe my experience because somebody else thinks that they should be able to re-define the words that I can use to talk about my own self and my own material reality so that they no longer apply to me. It’s literally ripping the words that I used to talk about my experience with a specific definition relevant to my experience and saying that I no longer am allowed to use them in the way that I do to describe my experience, but that now my words are gone and belong to someone else who has re-defined it to exclude me and include themselves. They all said that they were this was about inclusion, and I support inclusion, but now you are excluding me, and that is not OK.
I am a woman, and I am a woman only because I am biologically female. There is no other reason that I am a woman, and when you take away my ability to use the word woman to mean biologically female, you have stolen my name. I can no longer use the word woman to describe myself, without other people in the lgbt+ community assuming it means that I have a female brain (nonsense) or that I consent to the social position of women or that I “identify as a woman.” When I talk about having dysphoria and being a female and not transitioning, and being a proud woman who only calls herself a woman because she is female and shares the lived experience of other females, I am told that I am wrong about my own identity, but of course they would never tolerate me saying this to them. Where did my language go to describe my own material reality? How come I suddenly can’t define myself by my own actual lived experiences? Comments are closed.
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