A Woman is a Body Policed
thegavoice.comI would like to preface what I am about to say with the very firm statement that there is nothing I find valuable about TERF logic, and I very explicitly denounce TERFism as nothing more than dangerous, violently transphobic rhetoric.
We all have a very real responsibility to protect the trans community, and I take that very seriously. TERFs are not welcome here, no exceptions.
The single thing that TERFs and I agree on, though, is that being a cis woman is painful, through and through. Living on a cycle of pain is, without a hint of dramatism, torture.
No matter where in my cycle I am, it feels like my body and mind are waging a war on me. Having a reproductive body sucks. That experience only makes up a fraction of what womanhood actually is, though.
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