My ignorance, let me show you it

Oh look, it's that time again. Rad-fem transphobic idiocy.

It's remarkably useful, this "male head" theory, because it allows you to ignore the endemic violence (one in two trans people in the last year, Viviane Namaste found in Invisible Lives), discrimination (unemployment rates are astronomically higher for trans people), poor medical treatment, massive amounts of homelessness and general institutional illegibility (having the "wrong" gendered documents leaves you vulnerable as hell, open to charges of identity fraud and even targeted as a potential terror suspect...thank you very much post 9/11 legislation).

But hey, at least if you proceed from the assumption that trans women are male, and get all the attendent benefits thereof, you don't need to be influenced by that thing the rest of us tend to call "reality."

PHEW.

* Oh, and for the record, I really don't give a shit about feminist safe spaces personally--anywhere I'm not welcome is somewhere I don't want to be, it's your party and you can suck if you want to--but I do care about the fact that safe spaces are invoked to deny trans women important services like rape centres and shelters.