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QuestionCAIS women
I've seen a few posts on social media from women who claim to be GC, saying that women with CAIS are actually men. This seems really absurd to me, seeing as their bodies are fully incapable of using testosterone from basically birth, meaning they have no functional male anatomy for basically their whole lives. I think we should be allies to women with disorders of sexual development (DSDs), especially with how TRAs have contributed towards the discrimination of these women by claiming they're actually biologically nonbinary and similar unscientific bs.
Like I get that TRAs like to throw women with DSDs under the bus to claim that it's possible to change gender, but they were not born with any of these disorders so it clearly doesn't apply to them. Don't see why we should throw DSDs under the bus too.
I'd like to know if this opinion is common or if it's a TRA effort to make us look bad
Edit: Responses to this post have left me disillusioned with this community. I hoped that maybe I was just hearing about only the bad ones but there's so many responses here that are in bad faith or that scream intentional misunderstanding of genetics. Some of you don't know what you're saying and are implying that sex is a spectrum when it is obviously not. I'm out.
I think my college was on a different level and it wasn’t a PNW thing, but being in the PNW compounded the crazy.
Thank you ladies.
Gender ideology is so damaging. Along with runaway identity politics. Identity politics still puts men and their feelings above the needs and safety of women. That’s all I’m going to say right now. I’m unable to elaborate further because I’m feeling a lot of things about some fucked up shit that happened to me while at college. Thanks for understanding.
I wish you well!
(Signed, old Midwesterner)
Thank you! Moving away from the PNW was the best thing.
Sidenote. I have a soft spot for Midwesterners. I’ve dated a few of yall haha 😂
Yes but only on and off (I don’t have a degree of any kind yet) at a couple different community colleges. (I was accepted into a bigger school and had to put it off due to financial reasons 😭)
It was mostly pretty chill, there were some very gender-y people and it was pretty much what you’d expect from schools around the PNW area. My experience has mostly been good but I also went to school online for the most part, and only had a couple classes in person.
I don’t like the culture of the PNW overall tho, and I’m sure I’d despise going to a big school in person LOL; I actually really want to move away because, after over a decade in this area, I’m getting pretty sick of the whole thing. (My state is one of the ones defying executive orders regarding “trans girls” on girls teams 💀) Not to mention all the other issues here like soaring housing prices (I’ll never, ever be able to afford a house here! Unless it’s in a tiny shitty town like 12 hours away lmao) and the out of control homeless/drugs issue.
Overall, I used to be a big fan of the PNW and my city specifically, but over the last several years….. not so much…
Edit to say, this went off on a tangent unrelated to college, and I’m sorry for that! Apparently I have a lot of thoughts about the PNW in general LOL my bad
I didn't, and I wouldn't say that my college experience was traumatic, either, but it was demoralizing. Virtually all colleges are woke now, even those located in cities that are not. And I don't just mean the student body; actually, if it were confined to the student body I wouldn't really care. But a good chunk of the professors are both thoroughly postmodern and totalitarian, which means that if you want to do well in their classes, you have to regurgitate lies; on matters of opinion, you have to regurgitate specific opinions as though they were facts.
On the bright side, I never got brainwashed. But it is demoralizing to pay thousands of dollars to learn absolutely nothing and oppose your own conscience in the process. It's demoralizing to consider what you're missing out on, like classes that might actually be useful and intellectually challenging.
I'm only commenting because I'm assuming that your experience was awful for predictable reasons, and if that's the case, I wanted to say that when it comes to education the rot isn't quarantined. It's basically everywhere.
For what it's worth, I also had some good and great classes. The awful ones made up about a quarter to a third of my degree, and that ratio might well be worse in some places.