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I honestly can't imagine how hard it must be, but I offer you my empathy, solidarity and respect. It is awesome that you are speaking out and I really hope it helps your healing process. I totally agree with you (and many other exited people) who speak to the fact that most of those trapped in the system of misogynistic sexual exploitation are silenced by the demands of survival-- which is why it always just stuns me when someone -is- able to speak out.

I guess this is probably more for readers than for you, as you probably already know it, but on the off chance you haven't heard of it yet I highly recommend Rachel Moran's memoir about her journey through prostitution: http://www.amazon.com/Paid-My-Journey-Through-Prostitution/dp/0717156028

Again, best wishes and thank you for your insight!

The science stuff bothers a lot of GCers, at least it did me for awhile, because its not grounded in current reality, but even when I disagree, I'm glad you contribute. I also think science will save us all, just not in our lifetimes. I think social science, like anthropology, is more useful in understanding race, class, and gender. I would highly encourage you to read a book called Unnatural Selection, its about tech in the developing world influencing sex ratios at birth and its disturbing and fascinating.
https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Consequences/dp/1610391519

I try really hard to forget that feeling because I don't want to shave all of the time haha. It's easier now thanks to HRT, but I'm still lazy...when my wife and I check out a comedy show soon and I dress up a little, I'm sure I'll shave my legs for that so I'm more comfortable in a certain dress.

There have been a lot of studies that find that school teachers give more attention to boys: they call on boys more frequently, they wait longer for boys to articulate their thoughts, they use more eye contact with boys, they reward boys more often for speaking out while punishing girls for the same behavior. Here's a book about it. The authors, Sadker and Sadker, wrote another article in 2004 about the same stuff, but I can't find a copy of it online.

There was a study that came out of Israel a couple of years ago where they found that teachers gave girls lower grades on a math test when they knew the kids were girls.

MtF trans people benefit from these sorts of teachers' biases as long as MtF trans people are in the closet. What I mean is: until a trans person comes out as trans--at 15, at 26, at 50--everyone around them will treat them as their birth sex, and so even if a MtF trans person doesn't feel like a boy inside while they're in school, the teachers around them will still treat them like boys, not like girls.

For the record, the definition I posted comes from an anti-trans source, but defines gender and sex in the original radical feminist terms, which distinguish between sex and gender, so the things you posted would be parts of being female (sex), as opposed to a woman (gender). I agree they're usually synonymous and I understand why people would see it that way, but there are some feminists who thought it was worthwhile to make a distinction

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You might want to read something on the topic before you so cavalierly discount the work of global feminists and the existence of many peoples outside your own culture.

I don't know what you mean by "based on," but you're welcome to just spit out the word you are fishing for.

Check out the table of contents. It's a great book.

https://www.amazon.com/Transgender-History-Studies-Susan-Stryker/dp/158005224X
Transgender History (Seal Studies) (9781580052245): Susan ...

Used as the definitive Text at College and Universities.

https://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Studies-Reader-1/dp/041594709X
The Transgender Studies Reader (Volume 1 ... - Amazon.com
Also used in college Gender Studies courses.

https://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Warriors-Making-History-Dennis/dp/0807079413
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan ... - Amazon.com

I don't know how they labeled themselves, but it was definitely under the Tran Umbrella.

The amazon reviews for them are hilarious.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/reviews/B004FTF6H4/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_top?ie=UTF8

I had been anticipating this video, expecting the worst. I expected ContraPoints to throw feminism under the bus and to come out as an anti-feminist, but this wasn't remotely as aggressive as I expected it to be.

Also, you might want to check out this book. Women have a history of flashing their crotches. At one point in time it was considered a good omen for a woman to flash. It was also considered an effective way to ward off evil or enemies, so once upon a time women's genitals too were "weaponized".

I understand that this "cabaret" aspect of these videos is not everyone's cup of tea and could come across as intentionally crass or offensive. I totally get it, as a fellow radfem, that you would look at this and only see objectification and humiliation. I have seen a lot of contemporary ballet and performance art over the years and am a bit desensitized in that regard, but I totally respect people who are unfamiliar with these art forms and are just completely put off. I found it rather amusing for example that ContraPoints would wear Mardi Gras necklaces and flash their pixelated titties in one of these videos. Yes, probably no woman would ever want do that in the midst of discussing a serious point in a Youtube video (though there is plenty of flashing of other body parts in YT videos by women), so in behaving like that ContraPoints is primarily flashing their very male gender privilege to do something wacky or outrageous and still be taken seriously as a person making a point. At the same time, isn't that flashing a gestural commentary on either socially acceptable or transgressive behaviour with regards to both men and women? If ContraPoints is able to flash and still get their point across, are they to blame for society being so receptive to that kind of exhibitionism? I am not discouraging you from being offended. I respect your feelings. You are probably a better feminist than I am for being offended. I just would like you to see how people seeing the humour or implied commentary in these images might be reading (into these images) something other than merely humiliating aggressive intimidating objectification.

https://www.amazon.com/Aion-Researches-Phenomenology-Collected-Works/dp/069101826X/ref=nodl_

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)

The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter : Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, 1980 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-03-1

Addiction to Perfection : The Still Unravished Bride, 1982 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-11-2

The Pregnant Virgin : A Process of Psychological Transformation, 1985 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-20-1

The Ravaged Bridegroom : Masculinity in Women, 1990 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-42-2

Leaving My Father's House : A Journey to Conscious Femininity (co-authored with Kate Danson, Mary Hamilton, Rita Greer Allen), 1992 Shambhala Publications. ISBN 0-87773-896-3 (PB edition)

Conscious Femininity : Interviews With Marion Woodman, 1993 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-59-7

Dancing in the Flames : The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness (co-authored with Elinor Dickson), 1996 Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-313-9 (PB edition)

Coming Home to Myself : Daily Reflections for a Woman's Body and Soul (co-authored with Jill Mellick), April 2001 (paperback ed.) Conari Press. ISBN 1-57324-566-6

The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (co-authored with Robert Bly), November 1998, Henry Holt & Co; ISBN 0-8050-5777-3

> Can you give sources on gender identity's derivation of sexual functions?

It is philosophy of mind called functionalism. There are plenty of papers where authors claim that every feeling is derivation of functions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_(philosophy_of_mind)

>Your explanation doesn't really explain why the development of agp makes evolutionary sense.

Poiani in this book https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Homosexuality-Perspective-Aldo-Poiani/dp/0521145147 explained the role on self domestication and neoteny in the evolution of primate sexuality.


>Why would the development of hsts trans people be the same as the evolution of homosexuality?

Because HSTS are essentially homosexuals.

>What separates the two groups?

Social context. In one social context homosexuals are third gender, in another they are trans women, in another - gays, in another - abomination.

It's not that new. There is a book about this from 1997 (source)

Here is the mobile version of your link

I'm so glad so many others have pointed out how bizarre, tone-deaf, and insulting this question is.

No, female people are not "appropriating" discussions about their own rights. Lesbian, infertile women, girls who have not entered puberty yet, women who are post-menopausal, celibate women, and women who have simply never (yet) had an abortion are all people who ARE directly impacted by the debate over who owns our internal organs.

If you honestly don't see a difference between female people talking about sex-based oppression and male people talking about sex-based oppression, then I recommend this text as a starting point for you.

I'm not saying that autistic people don't exist and have problems, some of them very severe. I'm saying that the number of people who've been "diagnosed" as "on the autism spectrum" is ridiculous. And overdiagnosing autism is just the tip of the iceberg. The medical profession has been careening from one fad to another for a couple of decades and a certain segment of the population is eating it up. This desire to be labeled "busted" isn't limited to trans people. I see it in the GC subreddits, too. You're nobody unless you have at least several medical/psychiatric problems conveniently designated by initials: MPD, ADHD, PTSD, GID, ASD, SPD, SID etc.. Toss recovered memories in the list of fads, too. The more afflictions, the better. The more nebulous your affliction, the better, too. It makes it easier for claim that you're too fucked up to hold down a real job and function as a self-supporting adult. Honestly, it's very hard to take seriously folks with with countless afflictions. Why sugarcoat it? It's bullshit.

For more on this subject, start with books like:

https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalization-ebook/dp/B009NFMITE

https://www.amazon.com/Overdiagnosis-Psychiatry-Creating-Diagnosis-Misfortunes-ebook/dp/B00V58HVYO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1535927277&sr=1-1&keywords=Overdiagnosis+in+Psychiatry