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Dr. Katharine Dickson

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The first thing that comes to my mind is the concept that bigots see trans women as men who are throwing away the privilege of existing in a male-appearing form rather than as being women; not only does giving up privilege not compute to them…

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… but also - the concept of “woman with penis/neovagina” does not compute to them either, because of their concept of where gender *is* in the body and how tightly they tie it to the capacity to perform a given type of reproductive labor - the loss of a perceived “ally in patriarchy” upsets them

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