My Response: “Yeah, and cripples get good parking spots, but would you think it’s appropriate to tell them how fortunate they are for it?”
Which is a line I think is effective, but probably would have been more effective if I didn’t also then get silent and cry into my salad for the next 5 minutes at the table…
“man, it’s gotta be great to not be a real woman huh”
reminder that we’re just meat. you’re a woman in practice, and that’s all that matters. there is no such thing as ‘inherent’ or soul sex.
It did feel like that in some respects they’re saying: “You’re just a man who wants to look like a woman, so why would it upset you to be told you’re lucky that you were born unable to do the thing that biology drives women to do?”
I think NewTie has some art on this that really nails it :
“Would you tell a cis woman they are lucky to be barren? Then why TF do you think it’s okay to do it for me?”