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Without getting into JK Rowling, a site that has the technical means to but willfully ignores transphobia or homophobia certainly is not "cool".

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torstenvl 6y ago
It isn't transphobia to object to female erasure. Not every women's issue is also a trans women's issue, and it's sexist to insist otherwise.
- vmception 6y ago
  plenty of transmen that many of us are trying to empower too......... the non-sexist trans inclusivity movement overlapped with the female inclusivity movement trans exclusionary feminism is considered radical, its what the R in Terf stands for. It means it doesn't have consensus. yes, some positions and status will go to males that are transwoman instead of females. I don't think there is any coordination or plot in this to "erase females". (I feel like this concept is different across English speaking countries, in America the movement has landed on the concept that we have separated sex and gender, so there are two sexes which remains binary: male and female, and there are non-binary genders which includes but it not limited to man and woman designations, and they don't have to match the sex. Sometimes I see people in the UK getting into semantics issues with an American audience, whether they are purposefully being insensitive or not.)
- hackmiester 6y ago
  How can it be sexist to compare the issues of 2 groups of women?
- t0astbread 6y ago
  I agree that cis women and trans women (and trans men!) have distinct problems but I've never heard of the concept of "female erasure" outside of people claiming that it exists (usually accompanied by other opinions that are definitely transphobic). Trans people are usually very mindful of the differences between them and cis people of their gender, sometimes so much that it causes them self-doubt.
- klyrs 6y ago
  The existence of trans men is not female erasure, and JK Rowling's insistence on that point is transphobia.
- dang 6y ago
  Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of what they're arguing. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the intended spirit when posting here, we'd be grateful.
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  - torstenvl 6y ago
    Only on a tech site would it be considered flamewar to suggest that not all XX issues need to be subordinated to XY issues. Remember this next time a GamerGate or similar issue arises. Our community has a serious problem with sexism and I'm sad to see this conversation go this way.

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torstenvl 6y ago

It isn't transphobia to object to female erasure. Not every women's issue is also a trans women's issue, and it's sexist to insist otherwise.

vmception 6y ago
plenty of transmen that many of us are trying to empower too......... the non-sexist trans inclusivity movement overlapped with the female inclusivity movement trans exclusionary feminism is considered radical, its what the R in Terf stands for. It means it doesn't have consensus. yes, some positions and status will go to males that are transwoman instead of females. I don't think there is any coordination or plot in this to "erase females". (I feel like this concept is different across English speaking countries, in America the movement has landed on the concept that we have separated sex and gender, so there are two sexes which remains binary: male and female, and there are non-binary genders which includes but it not limited to man and woman designations, and they don't have to match the sex. Sometimes I see people in the UK getting into semantics issues with an American audience, whether they are purposefully being insensitive or not.)
hackmiester 6y ago
How can it be sexist to compare the issues of 2 groups of women?
t0astbread 6y ago
I agree that cis women and trans women (and trans men!) have distinct problems but I've never heard of the concept of "female erasure" outside of people claiming that it exists (usually accompanied by other opinions that are definitely transphobic). Trans people are usually very mindful of the differences between them and cis people of their gender, sometimes so much that it causes them self-doubt.
klyrs 6y ago
The existence of trans men is not female erasure, and JK Rowling's insistence on that point is transphobia.
dang 6y ago
Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of what they're arguing. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the intended spirit when posting here, we'd be grateful.
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- torstenvl 6y ago
  Only on a tech site would it be considered flamewar to suggest that not all XX issues need to be subordinated to XY issues. Remember this next time a GamerGate or similar issue arises. Our community has a serious problem with sexism and I'm sad to see this conversation go this way.