Further, she says that the only thing that all women have in common is a fear of sexual violence. Brought up with the fear that they will be violated by men to keep them in their place.

This was my conclusion from my review of the Hecklers debate (Transgenderism and Julie Bindel

And that's the point. Bindel is having a rotten life surrounding herself with all the miseries of the world. She can't imagine that most women don't see the world as she does, but she knows that the transgendered cannot possibly share her view and so, QED, we cannot possibly know what it is to be a woman. So why should we be allowed to try ? Why should society indulge us at the expense of the already oppressed 50% of the population ?

However, if all women suffer from the threat of male violence, then it follows that all those suffer that threat are women. This would necessarily include all abused children of either gender and all out LGB people who fear violence for being gender transgressive. She hasn't got a leg to stand on by using this definition for excluding transgender women from 'Category : Woman', even from Vancouver rape crisis centre. It's far too broad and self-defeating.

Equally, her definition of women's lives is too brutally dystopian. I doubt few women would recognise themselves in this, but it's a standard she only measures MtF women by.

And finally, her definition of male violence is too all-encompassing. Practically any relationship bewteen men and women, however consensual, is understandable only in terms of the politics of violence : This way lies madness.


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