Now I'm sure my fellow women will join me in saying that this has been a long time coming.

As in 'She will' to show support and solidarity with women's struggles. For instance, Shell, a British-Dutch oil and gas company, have added an apostrophe to their company name (at one of their gas stations) so that it reads 'She'll'. So anyway, as is tradition, on the run up to International Women's Day we've seen large corporations falling over themselves to prove just how much they value women by signaling their virtue like the Bat Sign across all of social media. Feminism has come a long way, but until it accepts that women who were born male know better than they do about their own definitions, then I am afraid it's just not going to progress much further (now don't get me wrong, cisgender women are mostly adorable, but they simply cannot be trusted to make important decisions). Honestly, in my opinion they need to learn their place. Unfortunately however, although 'womxn' is becoming more accepted in certain circles, the official title is still 'International Women's Day' so trans rights activists still have a lot of work to do here (and by 'work' I mean 'intimidation, public shaming and bullying' because these damn fillies just won't do as they're told).įor the sake of clarity alone, I will continue to use the official day's title within this article and hope that one day the majority of cisgender 'women' stop being so bloody selfish with their gatekeeping of words and let womxn with penises have the final say. For example, it embraces self-ID trans women like myself who reject ridiculously archaic attitudes that insist a woman has to be feminine, that she must act like a woman, dress like a woman, not have a beard, tuck in her penis, shave her arse et cetera. 'Womxn' is being increasingly acknowledged as a more inclusive term when it comes to the complexities of contemporary gender recognition. Thankfully today she would be called out as the TERF she is because the correct term is 'womxn' ( at a push I will except 'womyn', but I would require prior notice in order for me to set my acceptance levels to 'moderate'). Chaka Khan famously sang: 'I'm every woman'. Yes, Sunday is the day when ALL women are recognized, not just the ones with biologically recognized female parts. Sunday March 8 is the most important day of the year for women all over the world: International Womxn's Day (and if you have difficulty pronouncing that, congratulations, you are a bigot). Thank you, Shell, for finally doing the right thing.

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