Womens Day

Apologies for not blogging in a while. Have been caught up in the new job/leaving the country et all.
But here's my new ultra controversial post:

Womens Day

Last week was International Womens Day.
This day is used as a platform right accross the globe for women to march in protest/protection/freedom/disguise/disgust/objection/and a lot of other reasons regarding womens rights.

But the controvercy I'd like to bring up is the WOMEN of Womens Day.

This day resembles not only the plight of all women around the world, but also the rights of women. Natural women?

Now you think to yourself - wtf is she talking about? All women are natural, duh.

Actually, no. Transexual Women (men who became women) are, according to their own opinions, NOT "natural women". As a trans person I spoke with recently said: "we are artificially created bodies with a natural feminine soul". (Please don't attack me, it's not like this is my quote.)

So does this day stamp transexual and intersex rights as well?
Can men with female genitals also be counted into this equasion?

In truth, one must then realise there is no more mere segregation of the sexes, or should I say:
In countries where you can actually change your sex/genitals/body there is no segregation. I mean,aren't we forever told "we're all human anyway"?!

Here goes my opinion. And I KNOW I'm gonna be shot down.

Bullshit.

International Womens day is a day for natural women. Those of us who were born in a body and lived in it. Fullstop.

See, straight women can't go to gay pride, but straight transexuals go to gay pride. In fact, the only reason you'd find a straight woman at pride is because she's there with her gay friends, not true?

Now you're saying, "but trans women are often attracted to men, the same as straight women!" Duh, like I don't know that.

Before you start planning my assassination! Look how I tied it up and think about this:

Transexual wo/men and intersex individuals have their OWN fight to fight when it comes to rights. Right?
And yes, they DO share similarities to natural women, BUT (big but) there are clubs and days and sections and movements and forums and a whole load of places where any other elite/niche/queer group can get together, but there is no such thing for natural women.
They don't have a flag or a symbol or a parade.

They have marches and movements and intense discussions on a single day a year.

Hundreds of thousands of women are SEPERATE from feminist movement, as feminism is, after all, an elitist extreme. For the same reason hundreds of thousand of women are seperate from the transexual/intersex/gay movement.

So this day is for the rest of them. Note, I say them as even though I feel so strongly about the day, I'm trying to not be bias! :P

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
-- Abigail Adams