This is just my opinion on the matter and if it doesn’t resonate, feel free to exit.
Firstly, this article is not referring to gay people. Some people are attracted to people of the same gender and are even killed for it. To prevent down-low behaviour, we want people to live in their truth and so I am not homophobic. However, in recent times, the notion of being “transgender” has reached the mainstream, especially in the West and there are people in our society who believe that gender is not based on your genitalia and so there are men born with vaginas and women born with penises.
As always it appears to me that Black Women are being used as pawns by this group to further their agenda. Of course, there are the typical religious BW who view it as demonic and evil but other Black Women are very susceptible to influence especially when someone suggests their oppression is tied to yours. The narrative I’ve seen is that Black Women were not and are not seen as women by the White supremacist society we did/do live in and therefore if we reject “White supremacy” to acknowledge our womanhood, individuals who have penises should also be able to claim womanhood too because the image of womanhood is a petite white girl with a vagina. So, when White racists back in the day viewed Black Women’s genitalia as different (even though still only chose BW to look after their kids as opposed to Black Men) or Black Women are called men, this is because womanhood is only seen through a white supremacist lens and so as woke Black mules, we’ve got to help change the whole notion of gender and allow anything and everything to sit under that umbrella so BW can be embraced as women by all…
As someone who spent a lot of time on the internet, you’ll see that BW are regularly insulted by being referred to as men whether these women have broad shoulders, a strong jawline or not. Most recently I saw a troll ask if Lori Harvey pictured below on the left was a man/ trans:
Black Women need to understand that back in the day, denying us of our womanhood was a way to normalise the abuse we endured and today it is an aspect of misogynoir to attack a woman in the worst way (denying her womanhood). It’s quite frustrating and why I always write about “being in the world but not of it” if you are to thrive as a BW because you have to understand that not everything is at face value. If a man calls a BW a man, it’s not always because he literally thinks her appearance is making him question her gender, it’s a reflection of the bias/resentment that some men have towards BW and a way to separate us from what is to be honoured and desired. We live in a world where a man will call Lori on the left a man and the woman on the right feminine. This is racism, this is bias, this is resentment, not just a certain phenotype or body type being rejected. This should be obvious by now. If we weren’t seen as women, the resentment wouldn’t exist. When you don’t make certain men feel good about themselves (because of stereotypes surrounding your beliefs/ behaviour) and they do not get validation from you, such men do not want to acknowledge your beauty or treat you gently the way a man should engage with a woman so they put you in a different category. Many feel like they can’t engage with BW the way they should a woman so they exclude you from that altogether and others just want to get under our skin.
When a man in a wig snaps at you with “If y’all aren’t seen as women by society, how can you say we can’t be because of our broad shoulders”, as the original woman, you need to ask yourself, wtf is going on? We definitely do not experience this world as Black Men do and does that sound like a woman trapped in the wrong body or a man (with many who are sooo jealous of women) trying to usurp our divine feminine power?
(Comment under the video: “Why men and boys are struggling | Richard Reeves”) ^Does that sound to you like a woman who found herself in the wrong body or men and women deciding to occupy a body that they deem as more beneficial? It’s very very insidious to me.
Feminity ≠ womanhood
I think to myself, what do girls have left? Every piece of girlhood is being overtaken by the trans narrative. Girls can’t be girls without being told they may not be a girl. Suddenly a tomboy might be trans? A girl cannot enjoy more masculine activities or clothing without being told she’s trans, non-binary?? There is no right way to do girlhood or be a girl because a girl is a FEMALE child. Her clothes, her hobbies, her sexuality, her beliefs, her dislikes and likes, none of those things make her a “girl” and to define it as so is damaging! There are shared experiences of girlhood, womanhood, of being female, of course, but it’s only shared experiences because of the biological reality of being female.
TW: Sexual Assualt
There was recently a case here in the UK about a “transgendered woman” luring a schoolgirl and continuously r*ping her while dressed as a woman and it’s very rare to find a woman who abuses young girls in that manner but obviously a lot more common for men to do so. Although this person may have had a female name and wore female clothes, they were a man and probably used this idea that gender can change to be a predator. This is horrific and there are many cases like it.
So-called trans women, do not face sex-based oppression. When abortion rights are taken away, birth control & female reproductive health accessibility is stalled, FGM?, they will in no way be affected because they are not women. Most trans people also don’t experience higher levels of violence as the murder rate is 3x lower than for your average person. It’s just that they oftentimes rely on data of “transwomen” of colour (the majority of them gay) who are prostituted or trafficked. The focus should be on improving the outcomes of Black Women! One thing to note is that the majority of these black “transwomen” engage in sex work. Part of this is obviously poverty and most of these people don’t seem to be living optimally prior to deciding to change genders (which I believe influences their decision to do so as opposed to feeling like they are in the wrong body) but we know that if most BM had a p*ssy, they’d sell it. I think of individuals like Zepkins who advertise their only fans all day and walks around half-naked:
These are people passing off as Black women but they are men, selling their bodies at night, taking half-naked photos and doing all sorts. Does such imagery help Black Women who want to level up? I’m not saying that there aren’t BW who post naked photos online or engage in sex work but when there is a group of people who want to co-opt your image but don’t really do anything positive with it, how can that be embraced?
This is such a polarising issue and if you care for Black Women’s progression in society, you should completely reject this agenda by not embracing it through the images you post, people you vote for, musicians you listen to etc. BUT the issue is sometimes as BW we feel impassioned about something and we now want to start hate pages, make whole videos on the topic or go militant on them but BW’s inability to move in silence has caused us to become enemy #1. This agenda is in no way something I align with but if the news comes to me and asks what I think about this issue, I’ll say “no comment”. This really became clear to me because I was watching the news a few days ago and they did a small segment on the genocide that China is carrying out on their Muslim population and I thought of all the little Muslim girls who love them some K-Pop (many of the tops bands have Chinese members) and if you have a close relationship with a Chinese person, you see that they have views that can be extreme but your average Chinese person is never going to speak on Islam or their other views because they know that they are polarising (Mianzi). We need to learn from these people and when we see things that are problematic, we won’t embrace it but we don’t have to go to war with it. I’m not going to tell you my preferences in a man, I’m not going to tell you what I think about this religion or that culture. You’re not going to see my cards but I know what I stand for and my values and if anything goes against them, I will not support that in any way.
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Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I think there is a reason why so many people are opposed to women and especially Black women putting down the harsh makeup (that makes women look Trans) and the bussdown wigs. So many modern makeup pratices such as the harsh conturing, the excessive highlighting, the caterpillar eyelashes and the exaggerated wigs originate in the trans and drag community. There are always thinkpieces that errupt whenever women (and especially Black women) start doing minamilist makeup. When women wear “natural looking” makeup and embrace their features, especially their hair it draws a clear divide between them and us.
Unfortunately, Black female SJWs (the ones who only feel seen when they are muling) are the loudest in support of the trans community. They are the first to masculinze Black women and all while using language akin to the most radical white supremacists. Im at a loss of how to address these women and their agenda to defeminize Black women to grant that stolen feminity to males (and unironically primarily white ones).
I agree with you on the harsh makeup. I personally don’t like to engage with the confused or bring attention to their nonsense. I just like to highlight / bring attention to what I think is right.
At this point I think a lot of movements only bring up white supremacy to put black women in an emotional state where we feel like we have to help other groups…
I’ve noticed so many movements have a habit of using our name for the their own motives. Even radical feminists who claim to care about all women typically only ever bring black women up when they want to humiliate a TRA, or convince us that trans activists are the real white supremacists, meanwhile they’re both just trying to use us to their advantage lmao.
True, I used to visit this feminist forum for a while. I should have seen it coming. Barely any discussion on Megan thee Stallion’s or how the arrest on Jonathan Majors or black femicide. Only a minority of black women care about that.
I do understand the legal implications of gender identity but it will drive a woman insane if that’s all she talks about.
Like sometimes I do feel a bit alienated from all the femininity talk and that’s why I gravitate to feminist spaces.
I don’t have a clear answer
I feel the same. More and more people are trying to connect trans women to black women. It’s frustrating when I see a black female youtuber taking about things that relate to us as black women and then she starts to include transwomen in it too. Biologically born women and transwomen are not the same. We don’t have the same experiences so stop lumping them into conversations about us.
This has unfortunately led to transwomen (and gay men) invading black female spaces. Sadly, black women have allowed this to happen. I’ll be watching a video where a black woman will be talking about pregnancy and single motherhood, then I’ll see a gay man or a transwoman in the comments. It’s odd because these are issues that do not pertain to them in the slightest. For example, on one of Mahogany Pink’s videos about pregnancy, there was a well-known trans YouTuber that had one of the most liked comments and it was hearted by Mahogany herself. I was rather disappointed in Mahogany because of this. Why is it that on a video about pregnancy relating to black women, a transwoman has one of the most liked comments?
That’s why I’ve disconnected myself from most black female youtubers that talk about these topics because they’re usually on some SJW stuff and try to speak up for everyone’s issues, even when nobody does it for them. No other communities do this. When white women talk about their issues do they speak up for white transwomen? No. When Asian women talk about their issues do they speak up for Asian transwomen? No. They make sure they’re the topic of the discussion at all times.
It doesn’t even have to be transwomen, it can be any group. I see black women speak up for other racial groups and their issues and I facepalm. It actually has ended up backfiring in some cases and the black woman gets attacked by the very same group she was defending. Then when she makes a video talking about black women’s issues, people in the comments deflect and make it about them.
Black women get nothing out of doing this so why do they still do it? I think it’s because black women think that if we invest our time and energy into talking about the issues of other groups, that people will eventually come to care about and listen to our problems. However, the truth is that trying to educate others on black women’s issues is a lost cause because nobody cares. So black women please stop allowing other groups like the LGBT into your spaces and letting them talk over you. It’s holding us back from getting where we need to be.
FACTS
You are absolutely right. This idea that we “were never seen as women” is crazy to me and honestly rewrites history. Being FEMALE has never been associated with privilege in the contexts of history. White women were treated better because they were white. Not because they were seen as “more female or more womanly” – I HATE how SJW BW have allowed these trans people to rewrite literal history. It’s insane. Being a female has been tied to nothing but oppression and being treated as property since the dawn of time. Black women have ALWAYS been seen as female. We’ve never been seen as anything else. My grandmother couldn’t even open a dam bank account in the 60s but my Black grandfather could. All of a sudden they want to say we were never seen as women just because we weren’t treated exactly as white women ?