We need a movement for all of the 'people'—who share some crucial but verboten characteristics—who are directly affected by the end of Roe v. Wade that includes exactly none of the 'people' who aren't, and we can rebuild feminism for women from there.
Mixed-sex feminism that's built on the flimsy foundation of subjective identity claims and prioritizes validation for males does not work for women. Protecting our rights requires recognizing the realities of female embodiment. But mixed-sex feminism renders female biology an unspeakable privilege.
Feminism cannot afford to pander to the egos and delusions and maladaptive coping mechanisms of men who want to wear our realities as identities and who punish us for pointing out the difference. We could never afford it. But some women—including women who should've known better—thought it was kind to pretend: inclusivity costs us nothing, they said.
These men—and the women foolish or naive or craven or misguided enough to cater to them—censored our speech, making female biology taboo once again. They hounded dissenting women out of public life and turned organizations that once fought for our rights inside-out. Now these organizations can’t even name us. How on earth can they defend us?
Every time women try to organize as women, meet as women or speak as women, men and their sycophantic allies try to trip us up: "Do you include ‘transwomen’?" Whether you answer yes or no, trans activists—and this line of questioning that nothing intended for women can escape—will sink your advocacy for women. Say yes and you’ve agreed to redefine your constituency from females who need rights on the basis of our sex to a mixed-sex group based on gender bollocks. Say no and you’ll be monstered: no self-identified ‘progressive’ will work with you or even listen to a word you have to say.
The thing is, everyone on earth knows what a woman is. The only difference is that some of us are willing to say so in clear language—clear language being the only language capable of asserting and defending rights—while others piously dissemble. It’s dangerous to pretend not to know what everybody on earth knows: mullahs, pimps, Supreme Court justices, legislators with trigger laws in their back pockets, abortion vigilantes. Can we stop pretending?
One of the central edicts of patriarchy is that women must not be able to recognize or speak about our oppression. This is accomplished with a multi-pronged approach: tell women they're not oppressed (you have 'cis privilege ', you're loved/protected/desired by men), tell women if they are oppressed, it's their fault (she was wearing/saying/doing the wrong thing), and discredit us (she's crazy/a witch/a bigot). All of this is meant to detract from one central fact -- women and girls are oppressed on the basis of sex and no other reason.
It will be interesting to see. Suddenly, I see a lot of progressive types actually saying "woman" instead of "birthing people." I wonder if people realize that while things seemed in the bag, they could get away with this b.s. but now that reality hits, they have to change their tune. Time will tell.