Basic protections in areas like employment, healthcare and housing seem like fair developments.

I think everyone on the "GC" feminist side would agree. Most Republicans I know would agree too.

But unfortunately the trans lobby defines "basic protections in health care" as hormones & surgeries on demand, no "gatekeeping" or professional discretion on the part of physicians, & the automatic medical transing of children.

If there are cases where trans people have been denied health care for other kinds of issues, please provide receipts.

In the case of housing, many young trans activists today take the position that trans people seeking to rent, obtain a mortgage or join a housing coop or association shouldn't have to go through the standard credit checks & or provide references like everyone else has to do because it could reveal their "dead names" & trans status & might result in them being misgendered.

In the case of employment, many trans activists seem to think this means special rules must be put in place to allow trans-identified people to dictate to their colleagues what language they can use to refer to them in their presence as well as in their absence, to wear whatever they want to work, even if it's sexualized attire considered inappropriate in others, & to behave however they want coz of "inclusion" & "tolerance."

Yesterday, I watched a video in which a trans-identified male who looked to be age 25 or so was bragging of telling the person's supervisor at work that s/he was taking the rest of the day off coz of menstrual cramps. The person gloated over this, remarking with a smirk that since the company was aware of the employee's trans status, "they can't say anything, they can't stop me."

This is an abuse & mockery of the women's rights that women of previous generations including my generation fought for.

This offensive appropriation of female people's medical issues by a trans-identified male seems even more offensive & weird in light of the fact that actual girls & women don't customarily get time off work or school coz of menstrual cramps.

Even if we're not female, we do experience some of the same misogyny and discrimination that women do in life, and women's rights affect a lot of trans people more than trans rights do. I don't know . Even in private we still have some of the same relationship dynamics and issues with male intimate partners that straight and bi women deal with. It's not the same thing, but it's close enough that we share similar concerns and stand to gain or lose somewhat similarly regarding women's rights.

This really isn't true. The discrimination women have faced historically is because of our female sex, not coz of how we dress or our "femininity."

I don't doubt that you & other male persons like you have suffered antipathy & discrimination. I recall full well how many gay males were treated in the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s. I knew - & helped care for - many men who died of AIDS. But the kind of animus that males who are different to other males in their presentation face is not misogyny.

Please do us all a favor & come up with your own novel terms for the unique kinds of animus & discrimination you face. Women are sick to the back teeth of male trans-identified people appropriating the terms we devised for what people of our sex experience. We are fed up with invasive male interlopers horning in & claiming that the definition of terms like "misogyny," "women," & "female" must be expanded to apply to some males.

Fight for your own rights, which are not women's rights. I know you mean well, but what you & other trans-identified males are doing is the political equivalent of coat-tailing or "drafting" on the highways - drafting meaning what a car does when it rides close behind a big rig truck in order to be pulled along so as to save fuel/energy/effort.

In the US, males were never denied the vote & various other rights - such as the right to attend school, sign a contract, apply for a patent, keep their own wages, participate in sports, get a credit card or bank loan, enter various professions & so on - because of their sex. When males have been denied rights in the US, it has been because of such factors as their race/ethnicity, economic status, political views, criminal convictions, sexual orientation - but not their sex. Women & girls have been denied a whole slew of rights because of our sex.

I have never heard of a boy or man who was kicked out of school or fired from his job because he impregnated someone. But I know of plenty of women who were kicked out of school or fired from their jobs because they got pregnant.

So many of the rights women have worked for have been about our female bodies. Contraception, abortion rights, maternity leave, the right to breastfeed in public, the right to have Pap smears & mammograms covered by health insurance plans, workplace accommodations for pregnant women & for breastfeeding women who need to pump & store milk whilst at work as well as for women going through menopause.

The International Olympics Committee has put in place a policy that's allowed a 43-year-old male with a dick & balls who once competed in male weightlifting but wasn't very good to compete in women's weightlifting in the upcoming Tokyo Games. All without even necessarily reducing his T - the IOC level allowed for "transwomen" is in the normal male range, & someone of Hubbard's age, weight, girth & level of adiposity might well have that level of T naturally. But at the same time, the Tokyo Olympics will not allow a Canadian female athlete who is breastfeeding her baby to bring the baby to Tokyo with her so she can continue to breastfeed. Tell me, how are these situations in any way similar or equivalent?

Even in private we still have some of the same relationship dynamics and issues with male intimate partners that straight and bi women deal with.

The psychological dynamics might be similar, but the physical realities are not. A male being abused by another male still has a much better chance of fighting back or running away than a female person being abused by a male does. Even males with slight builds still have such advantages as male musculature, male speed, male response time, male explosiveness male grip strength, male hand size & span, male throat circumference & cartilage, male bone density, male upper body strength, male reflexes & male punching power - which is nearly 300% times that of female people.

When my younger brother, sons & nephews were skinny boys of 14 they easily could have choked me & any other adult woman to unconsciousness or death with their bare hands - with one bare hand, in fact.

When men rape or coerce girls & women into sex, pregnancy can result. The terror of being impregnated against your will - & of worrying afterwards that you've become pregnant - is something no trans-identified males will ever experience. You won't know what it's like to take a pregnancy test, have an abortion or carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.

Men who commit DV & have female partners very often start beating & otherwise abusing their female partners when the girls or women become visibly pregnant. That's not something that will ever affect a trans-identified male.

When I was 19, a male of my same age slugged me in the face with his fist - sending me flying across the room where I crashed into a wall then to the floor. With that one punch, he shattered by right eye orbit (socket), broke the bridge of my nose & caused a concussion. If he had hit a male person of the same age, it's unlikely he would have done anywhere near the same amount of damage because male skull & facial bones (& all bones) are stronger & thicker, male total body mass & solidity (thus inertia) are far greater, & males are not as vulnerable to concussion & TBI as females are.

Since then, I have suffered chronic trigeminal neuralgia around the eye whose socket/orbit was broken by a male fist, & I've had three orbital tumors that are believed to have come from nerve damage that one punch caused many decades ago. The three tumors I've had needed to be removed in three separate surgeries requiring the skills of a top neuro-opthamologist & a plastic surgeon who specializes in repairing damaged or failing muscles & tissue around the eyes. Every year, I have to go back to these guys & be examined & scanned to make sure no new tumor is growing.

I am not bringing up this experience of mine to "play the victim" or "weaponize my trauma." I am just trying to demonstrate that males who identify as trans or as women do not have any idea of what girls & women go through due to having very different physiology to yours.

The antipathy you & other trans-identified males have experienced & might still experience is wrong & unfortunate. But it's not misogyny.

The discrimination you face is not the same as the discrimination that people of the female sex face.

The vulnerability to male violence you face is not the same vulnerability that female people face.