The Fernery at Southport Botanic Garden uses a riot of foliage that is redolent of those Victorian follies and grottoes that lingered on in the 19th century.
“A cisgender female cancer survivor who had her breasts removed said that public restroom users regularly challenge her gender, making her nervous about such confrontations….
“Public toilets are very stressful because people will always challenge me whenever I go in,” she said. “They will ask me if I’m in the right toilet, or get members of staff to question why I’m there— to which I have to constantly explain that I had cancer, not a sex change.”
“It’s that confrontation that I hate. I want people to understand that I am a woman, and I am in the right place,” she added.
When she wears clothing or wigs that are commonly seen as more feminine, she says she still gets mistreated because the clothes make her feel inauthentic and uncomfortable.”
It is easy to see that the real goal of TERFs and gender traditionalists is to get everyone to follow their narrow standards of gender. It has nothing to do with “biological sex”.
“What seized all those wise men and had them thinking that man must want some kind of normal, some kind of virtuous desire? Man wants independent desire alone, no matter what this independence costs and no matter where it may lead him.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via philosophybits)
