[Lacey Ra]

My thoughts on transgenderism have recently be changed, I use to be for it but after reading more and more articles of transgender woman going into places and revealing their male bits in the presence of young females I don't know if I support them anymore. Especially now that there are laws that say a man can just say he's a woman and walk into the woman's bathroom how he feels, to me this opens doors for pedophila and sexual assaults against real women, well that's what I've understood from the the new Massachusetts bill. And these same laws says to women, natural women, that they're aware of our discomfort but that we can't do anything and we just have to let this person do as they please. I may be reading into it wrongly though, but this is just what I grasped.

So as woman, yea I do feel that transgenderism reinforces feminism in certain ways. Because these laws were written by men for ultimately men/transgender women, this is another case of men looking out for men and then throws real women under the bus for getting upset that a man with male parts is using the female bathroom.

I'm still wading through my feelings on this and watching the news for more accurate info as it comes available but if it continues in this trend where transgender women are pushing women out of our own places then I do see myself against transgenderism which I don't to be but I won't be pushed out either, I was here first ya know. I ain't gunna stand by while real women are being forced out of our own gender/sex for men/transgender women to tell us what a women should and should not look like/act like/be like.

It's really all very confusing right now, for any kinda women but I do believe women and transgender women can and will somehow over come our barriers. One of the things I'd like to see but have not is simply respect from our transgender peers. Women have been pushed to the back, we've had to battle our husbands/sons/fathers to get where we are now. A women just doesn't feel her own pain, she feels the pain of other oppressed women over generations, that's what spurred the women's right movement yall know, we had to fight for our hopes and dreams. Women have such an amazing history, we are/were queens, presidents, mothers, daughters and everything in between and we have always had one opponent, men.

So for a transgender person to jump on the feminism train in the past few decades and tell me "Oh I understand yall pain." it somehow cheapens what we as women went through, because NO MAN, non transgender or transgender will ever TRULY understand what being a women is. I mean how do you tell a women who's experience abuse, rape, verbal, mental and physical torture (medieval times) at the hands of men that you a transgender women who was once a man, understands? I think this is why a alot of women can't readily get behind transgenderism, it's like a trojan horse, or something. Transgender women might feel their own pain in terms of the battle they are going through, but it's not my pain, and as a women my pain wouldn't necessarily be your pain. And then when laws like the Mass. one is passed that says real women have to quietly hush themselves and be pushed to the back AGAIN for transgender women it just widens the gap even further.

I believe that the wall of mistrust between women and transgender women can be brought down one stone at a time, firstly with transgender women respecting us as women, and for us women to respect them as transgender women. Like I said I'm still wrestling with this but a time gunna come when we have to make moral stand and I hope women ALL women can stand together but if transgender women continue trying to silence and push biological women into the olden days then my stance will be against and not for, hoping it don't come to that though...

Sorry my thoughts are all jumbled up yall.