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Anyone else horribly disturbed by this?

Not really, I think it’s cool as heck and since childbearing is weaponized and stuff this might eventually take a chunk out of that…maybe. but It’s all still just like scifi and stuff when all transplants are complicated and trans women’s anatomy isn’t built in a space friendly way so it might never take even before children are thought of.

It’s just sort of a nice dream thing, but it’ll be just as likely to find a gene therapy to alter sex chromosomes…. so far from us it might as well be never.

Okay, great. We can’t even have one little article about our advancement without some sort of snotty comment by a radfem.

A trans woman giving birth to her own child is disturbing and horrific.

The point of that comment? Just in case you forgot how much they hate you.

There are trans women running blogs like yourtransmisogynyisbullshit which are literally dedicated to reblogging every post they can with stupid comments and you come on here saying im being whiny?

You know what my main problem with this article was? The fact that in it they make out like being a little girl is a fucking privilege and they “missed out” by not getting to go shopping with their mum and they want that feeling. You want me to tell you a bit about that feeling? It’s being dragged around a store for four hours trying on tight dress after tight dress at the age of seven while your brother gets to play outside and eat ice cream because little girls don’t get a fucking childhood, or freedom. It’s getting slapped on the butt for getting chocolate down the front of it because you just wanted to eat food and enjoy it. It’s the boys making fun of you for being slow but you’re not slow it’s the stupid dress getting in the way. It’s everyone telling you you look so “pretty” while they tell your brother he looked “smart”. When they ask him how he’s doing at school and whether you’ve had a ~boyfriend~ yet. Even though you’re five. It’s learning from day one that you don’t count as a kid, you count as a girl (which is less-than) and that the most important thing about you, that everybody else values, and you should only value too, is how you look in a damn dress.

You still want that feeling?

Being a girl is a fucking curse. It’s a constant state of pain and desperate survival. And every time a trans woman makes out like it’s anything but that, another girl is born into a world that will never treat her like a human being.

where are they going to get these uteri from? are they going to buy them, thereby turning this into a way to quickly exploit poor women in the same way present-day surrogacy does? are they going to be responsible for the supportive care of the woman they took the uterus from (hormone replacement, paying for complications) or are they just going to take her uterus and run with it?

what vasculature are they going to hook up to it internally? the vessels, the space for this organ don’t exist in male bodies. how would a man give birth considering the shape of his pelvis? is there enough space for a child to develop in a male abdomen? could the baby’s development be enough stress on the implanted uterus to displace it?

you know even if they could manage to install a uterus and have it function like a real one, make them ovulate and be capable of reproduction, the eggs would still belong to whoever the uterus came from?? it would still be her child.

I highly doubt this will ever work for a male (implanting it into a female whose body is already set up to have a uterus is a different matter) but the fact that they don’t even wonder about any of these things and that they would happily exploit a woman and take her uterus and her gametes to further their own ~feelings of womanhood~ is just…so, so male lmao I was going to say gross but honestly male lives are split up around using women’s bodies and seeing us as nothing more than a mass of various parts that exist for their pleasure instead of as human beings so why should I be surprised at all?

How long until males assert this surgery is also “necessary and lifesaving”?

They intend to use women for our body parts. We are resources to trans activists.

You’re all fucking deranged.

@tygerofaera “childbearing is weaponized” I know, right! I heard some kid came out with a fucking ground to air missile where their genitalia should have been! I found their tumblr! “gene therapy to alter sex chromosomes” You go girl! Spread that casual sexism!

@chomperoftransrights “A trans woman giving birth to her own child is disturbing and horrific.” Is there something I’m missing here? I see nothing wrong with it. Care to explain it to me? Or is that mind so closed it’s jammed shut?

@sweetpotatodotcom “You want me to tell you a bit about that feeling?” Good to know that your personal experiences cover every single experience of childhood ever! “It’s getting slapped on the butt for getting chocolate down the front of it because you just wanted to eat food and enjoy it.” Getting ice cream on clothes is COMPLETELY exclusive to females! “It’s the boys making fun of you for being slow but you’re not slow it’s the stupid dress getting in the way.” Oh no! Children made fun of you on an extremely trivial level, because they literally have barely any social skills! Woe is me! “the most important thing about you, that everybody else values, and you should only value too, is how you look in a damn dress.” Blanket statement that isn’t even remotely valid. “Being a girl is a fucking curse” Only when it fits into your narrative of victimhood, that is.

@opisaterf “quickly exploit poor women in the same way present-day surrogacy does?” That’s a good point, but then who IS going to do it? There are plenty of people who feel there is a little bit more to life than giving birth. Perhaps some transgender males would be willing to donate theirs? “are they going to be responsible for the supportive care of the woman they took the uterus from (hormone replacement, paying for complications) or are they just going to take her uterus and run with it?” That would probably be covered in the cost of the operation itself, so any person who would be willing to do this probably should make sure that they are adequately compensated through a side contract, or a very large up front payment. “what vasculature are they going to hook up to it internally? the vessels, the space for this organ don’t exist in male bodies. how would a man give birth considering the shape of his pelvis? is there enough space for a child to develop in a male abdomen?” All valid questions, which I don’t have the answer to, but let’s just assume that the procedure addresses all of these. In the case that it doesn’t, it’ll probably be addressed by the legitimate authorities on the subject matter. “the eggs would still belong to whoever the uterus came from?? it would still be her child.” And the point here would be what, exactly? Just because parents adopt a child doesn’t mean they don’t love said child. “they don’t even wonder about any of these things and that they would happily exploit a woman and take her uterus and her gametes to further their own ~feelings of womanhood~ is just…so, so male” *drinks shot of bleach* First of all, refer to above. Secondly, casual sexism is the best sexism, isn’t it. And transphobia on top of it too! “male lives are split up around using women’s bodies and seeing us as nothing more than a mass of various parts that exist for their pleasure instead of as human beings so why should I be surprised at all?” Your response as an entirety was a negative gradient of intelligence. As it went on, it got more and more asinine. The final bit’s just plain sexist, generalising, and dehumanising. To which I respond: fuck you.

@vuilgebooste “How long until males assert this surgery is also “necessary and lifesaving”?” How high are you, what are you smoking, and where can I get some?

@celtyradfem “They intend to use women for our body parts. We are resources to trans activists.” As fucked up as that may sound, consent is everything. If it’s given, I see no problem. And no, you can’t fucking retract consent; it doesn’t work like that.

“You’re all fucking deranged.”

Uh dude this post is about delusional men wanting to exploiting women as spare parts. It is unethical and shouldn’t be legal.

“As fucked up as that may sound, consent is everything.“

In regards to this situation that isn’t the case. The hippocratic oath comes into play seeing as we are talking about an operation. Considering it is an operation of this nature this operation/transplant it isn’t abiding by ‘do no harm‘. There is more to think about than your simplistic idea of ~consent~. There is a reason why medical ethic boards exist.

I know you don’t care about the women in this situation so let’s talk about the male who want want this operation. The male body would reject a uterus implant and quite possibly kill him. Even if he ~consented~ he would compromise his health and quite possibly die trying to reach and unobatainable goal.

“And no, you can’t fucking retract consent; it doesn’t work like that.”

Actually depending on the situation yes you can. You can contest legal contracts and have them revoked. It depends on a lot of things though.
Again you are reducing the situation down to something very simplistic.

There is no such thing as sexism against men and the rest of the paragraph’s points didn’t make much sense.

Do you have something against women talking about our shared experiences?

“And no, you can’t fucking retract consent; it doesn’t work like that.”

Nice fucking rape logic there, buddy. Nice to know that you honestly think if you pressure somebody into saying yes about anything, they lose the right to ever take that yes back.

Least they’re not pretending to be subtle about it anymore.

Also those 4 paragraphs to describe “I wish i was a three-year-old girl just swishing in my new dress” sounds unrealistic and fetishy as fuck, and there is no way you can say it’s not. This person has either never been around any small children (though that would be pushing that excuse as far as it could go), or is a fucking pedophile, because only pedophiles idealize children to that level.

Whoever this guy is he did not think this through and did not impress me with his intellectual prowess.

Why do males add commentary on things they didn’t experience and don’t understand?

The first paragraph was just him trying to invalidate a woman talking about girlhood and clearly has no idea how socialisation impacts girls. It is just him going nu-uh and misunderstanding what she is saying.

“That would probably be covered in the cost of the operation itself, so any person who would be willing to do this probably should make sure that they are adequately compensated through a side contract, ”

You can’t pay money for organs, idiot, that’s a felony. It’s why it’s illegal to leave the country for an organ transplant on the black market, and it’s why you CANNOT LEGALLY PAY A SURROGATE to carry your child.

None of which you’d know because gosh, like you’ve ever had to worry about it.

Furthermore, it’s a matter of medical priority. Your bodies are not evolved to have a uterus, nor is it necessary. The uterus is a vascular organ–that means it has veins attached and requires blood. Organ transplants are already at an astronomical risk of rejection, so the odds are almost 100% that this would reject (best case scenario), or become necrotic (worst case scenario).

Additionally, organ transplants operate via triage–those who need them most get them first. A trans woman who wants to have a kid is a “nice to have”. A twenty year old who underwent a full hysterectomy due to ovarian cancer (and is thus forced in to a medical regimen to replace the hormones she should be making–and avoid premature menopause) is a “need to have”.

The sheer ignorance of the idiot up-thread boggles the mind.

Immunosuppressive drugs for organ transplants are not safe for pregnancy. The way I know is that some quiverfull jackass prayed and decided that god would keep his wife alive during pregnancy even though she would have to go off her transplant drugs. You can guess how that worked out for them…. The other major issue is genetic compatibility. Certain genetic markers are relevant to each transplant and there is the possibility that a transplant from a female to a male would be impossible. Even if you could get a uterus to stay in a male, pregnancy is not a well understood process hormonally. There is no evidence that giving synthetic hormones could sustain a pregnancy. Induction of labor is a good example, some of the hormone components of labor are known, but giving a synthetic version is not guarantee that labor will take off. “normal” hcg levels vary wildly between women and pregnancies. The ligaments that keep a pregnant uterus in place are actually important to avoiding bed rest (possibly cord accidents in the hypothetical pregnancy in a male body). I’m pregnant and miserable right now and find that virtually all males are ridiculously ignorant of what is involved. Pregnancy makes your entire body different permanently, its not a uterus only process.

sorayachemaly:

Schools make up 10 percent of mass shooting sites in the US and are highly gendered targets of opportunity. They are places where educated women aggregate and compete with men as equals.

Women are twice as likely to die in school shootings.

This year alone we have already had 45 school-based mass shootings.

But schools are not the only places. Gyms, shopping malls, places of worship are also frequent targets, and are similarly places where women and girls are predictably present in greater numbers. Similarly, movie theaters provide opportunities for gunmen to express particular rage. When John Hauser, a man who had publicly repeatedly expressed misogynistic views in public, methodically mowed down 11 people in July at a theatre, the film they were watching was Trainwreck, a “chick flick” in dismissive parlance, one frequently discussed in terms of feminism.

Workplace shootings also have a marked result: being killed while at work is the second most likely way for women to die in the workplace, after car accidents.
Lastly, there is, perhaps, no greater gendered target of opportunity than homes which, in terms of intimate partner violence, become Alpha male arenas. As Melissa Jeltsenwrote earlier this year, “The untold story of mass shootings in America is one of domestic violence.”

Fully 70 percent of mass shooting incidents occur in homes, but we don’t generally hear about them because these crimes are considered a matter of private, not public health. In August, for example, a man tracked down his ex-girlfriend, and executed her, her husband and six children. He was apparently angry that she had changed the locks on her doors.

Overall, according to a recent Huffington Post analysis, 64 percent of the victims of mass murders are women and children.

So, it doesn’t require an explicit statement of misogyny to result in a explicitly disproportionate harm to women and children due to the violent expression of masculinity. There is, however, for the record, no shortage of explicit and public statements of hatred of women, in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Particularly in connection to women’s education and status.

What may come to mind for many people in terms of anti-feminist violence, schools and girls is the catalytic shooting of Malala Yousafzai and her classmates, while on their way to school.

Acid thrown on schoolgirls in Afghanistan and is not far behind in terms of hatefulness. However, we have no shortages in countries where we tend not to focus on gender.

In 1989 a man walked into an engineering class in a Montreal school and – yelling, “I hate feminists!” – shot 28 people, killing 14 women. He only shot men who interfered.

In the US, in 2006 a truck driver walked into an Amish schoolhouse, “ordered the 15 boys in the room to leave, along with several adults, and demanded that the 11 girls line up facing the blackboard.” He tied the girls’ legs together and shot them.

In 2013 Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik killed 77 people, 69 of them teenage students. Anti-feminism was an essential aspect of his manifesto, although that information often got buried in his wider ranting.

Prior to killing six people during his 2014 killing spree, Elliot Rodger explained, "I will enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB, and I will slaughter every single spoiled stuck up blonde slut I see inside there…The true Alpha Male.“

An unnamed police officialdescribed the Oregon shooter this way, “He didn’t have a girlfriend, and he was upset about that. He comes across thinking of himself as a loser. He did not like his lot in life, and it seemed like nothing was going right for him.” A commentor on the 4-chan post purportedly made by the shooter prior to the killings encouraged him to, “target a girls (sic) school which is safer because there are no beta males throwing themselves for their rescue.“

Clearly Boko Haram has no monopoly on targeting educated girls or schools.

The demographics of mass shootings in the United States are a testament to how inseparably and tightly bound race and gender to one another.

During the past 30 years, all but one of the mass murders in the U.S. was committed by men, 90 percent of whom were white.
Sociologist Michael Kimmel has worked for decades, conducting extensive research, to illuminate the relationship between race, hyper masculinity, homophobia and violence. Even if you prefer to focus on mental illness, gender is highly determinative.

Masculinity standards make it all but impossible for some boys and men to admit to psychic or emotional pain without compromising themselves as men trapped, as Jim Dowd puts “trapped in ideologies insisting on a natural order where the strong dominate the weak.”

“Mental illness actually does reflect the local culture,” explains anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann at Stanford University. When we spoke last year, she made a comparison with people’s behavior when drunk. “The way people express their symptoms has a lot to do with the ways that people learn to think. For example, Americans are violent drunks. American college men want to destroy things when they’re drunk. That’s a learnt behaviour. Violence is not necessarily associated with alcohol around the world.“

Last week’s shooting was, like many others, effectively a murder-suicide. The killer was dead before the end of the episode.

It is estimated that there are 12 murder-suicides a week in the U.S.

Ninety percent of cases are perpetrated by men and involve guns 78 percent of those killed are women, and more than 90 percent of the killers who commit suicide are men.

Luhrmann’s research, revealed that the voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic behaviors differ around the world. In Ghana the voices people hear are benign and playful, in the U.S. they are violent and harsh.

Gender considerations also affect the way people deal with mental distress. “Women in distress,” she explained, “turn their anger against themselves, men in distress, turn to violence. I think that before the biomedical revolution of the 1980s, mental illness was feminized. Our general cultural ideas tend to think of emotion as just more feminine. However, after biomedical revolution, I would say that the stereotype for serious psychotic disorder did shift to more of a male model, the crazy angry psychotic person. It is, however, still much more difficult for men to seek help or to recognize that he needs help.” Think, for example, of something as basic as men learning to associate simply asking for directions as shameful or embarrassing.

For full article read here.

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