Originally posted on 4 May 2026 by Mousidy

Anonymous asked:

being able to avoid pregnancy completely is a kind of power

Mousidy answered:

this is why post-menopausal women are so dangerous. they could use their infertility privilege at any moment to Get you

On 5 May 2026 Maid-Chevalier responded:

This asker thinks trans women are men. Being able to avoid pregnancy is not power, rather the social relations around avoiding pregnancy are where the power lies.

An average cishet man can avoid pregnancy, but that is not where his power in the sexual relationship comes from. It comes from the structures which privilege him above his woman partner in all economic, political, and social circumstances.

Trans women, meanwhile, do not occupy the same power positionality of man, contrary to this asker’s beliefs. Trans women can’t get pregnant in the same way that other women can’t get pregnant. Women who are born infertile, women who have their uteruses removed, women who can’t have penetrative sex. This is not a boon. Just like other women who can’t get pregnant, this means that the only worth - to patriarchy and capitalism - that trans women’s bodies offer is the violence that can be inflicted upon them to maintain gender’s hegemony and the sex that can be extracted coercively from them. This, again, is the case for all women who can’t get pregnant.

As other commenter’s have added, trans women are actually relegated out of the process of social reproduction almost entirely. Biologically in how transition - one way or another - makes us unable to contribute to the reproductive process. And socially in how the explicit exclusion of trans women from social reproduction is a deliberate act of systemic transmisogyny to maintain by violence the process of coercive sex-gender assignment.

In conclusion, this anon is dumb and stupid