Are men and confused little boys going to define womanhood ?

Not only is liberal feminism severely limited and has no historical and structural context but the trans movement is really limiting or twisting the feminist movement. In the wake of the Gaza Genocide and, its links with the horrendous war in Sudan , I have said that Western Womanhood is dead. It's merely a spectre now. This spectre is the likes of Hillary Clinton, Ursula von der Leyen, Kamala Harris, Daniella Weiss. 

I would argue to add to the analysis that if women are no longer going to be defined biologically and, men who claim they feel they are women and the body itself is irrelevant, where does it leave us biological women? Are men and confused little boys going to define womanhood ? We know that Westerners tried to raise LGBT rights in Gaza to distract from the Genocide, we know Israelis mocked suffering of Palestinian women and Israeli men and women and children actively block aid trucks, we know Israeli women are at the forefront of cheering for the IDF. 

This Genocide needs us to hold steadfast to womanhood. 

Western liberal feminism is tearing the real historical and structural struggle of millions of women who joined forces with men to liberate their countries from colonialism and, to build new histories where they were equals. 

To be born as a woman is a life long struggle to situate oneself in one's family, community and think of oneself in the world, in history, in society. I'm a woman from the Global South. It's a cliché but yes, we are part of our bodies, we aren't abstract ideas without bodies. We find ourselves in our bodies, from the first menstrual blood to the birth of our children, from the first objectification of our bodies to the mental liberation we achieve, from the first menstrual blood to the last one, from the first menstrual blood to the painful birth of our children, from the first blocks our very own put in front of us to the creation and sustaining of sisterhood and the list goes on. We are women because we push back against the objectification of our bodies, the illusion of capitalist choices as feminism,  and, relentless beauty industry. We are women because we are born women. We find ourselves in our bodies and then develop our consciousness, our social, political identities. Just as men do. We have our sacred struggles. We still stay in our bodies and we celebrate our bodies as we develop, change, and aim to age gracefully. 

Just how we do not make a mockery of hard and fast realities, the science of vaccines, the science of natural calamities, the science of climate change, the demand of trained doctors to take care of us versus pseudo science and witch doctors and black magic, the demand to safely deliver our babies, the demand to believe when our bodies are violated, we cannot make a mockery of our biology and our bodies. 

I've been trying to make sense of the Western Trans Movement and, how much its language has seeped into even our Trans Activists in the Global South, particularly in South Asia. The female body no longer matters but a hyper cosmetised , heavily made up, hyper sexualised feminine aesthetic is embodied by South Asian Trans Activists and Trans personalities. I've heard that in interviews the demand that  a Trans Woman should be treated just like a Woman. This is not acceptable. A man who now wants to appear like a woman (the same image of a hyper cosmetised sexualised image, the overly made up woman) is not the same as a woman. It's almost a caricature of a caricature of a caricature of a woman.  

The sacred struggle of being a woman includes the rejection of frivolous, artificial , capitalist, made up appearance for the gaze of men and , competition between between. But now, we have a Trans Woman doing exactly. And, all this is apparently a spectrum, an unbelievable new ideology that calls itself Gender Identity.  

I refuse this equalisation.  You may find yourself a new grouping but you are not a woman. You weren't born a woman. 

Liberal Western Womanhood is erasing biological women and, justifies Genocide of people in the Global South. It upholds Western Imperialism. Don't think this isn't interlinked. 

In this sense, it is critical to now expand feminism as women and children. We cannot breathe about the rights of women without talking about the thousands of children who have been massacred by Israel with American and European bombs. It's mothers who lost their children. It's children who have been orphaned and, lost their mothers. We cannot dare talk about the plight of 26 million children out of school in Pakistan without talking about their mothers. If 26 million children are out of school, there are 26 million mothers who are poor and hungry and, being ignored by the State. 

We cannot talk about children without talking about the plights of their mothers. Feminism has to talk about children. It has to talk about children and their suffering. 

When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump, one of the commentaries I heard on one of the Youtube channels I tune in to, said something like this: the juxtaposition of Palestinian women's rights to safely deliver their babies v. the right of American women to abortion. It is a collective plight v individual women's rights for abortion. Both are very basic plights , both linked to bodies. But the Liberal Feminist narrative promotes what it promotes to serve the Empire. 

PS. I can't believe women have actually sign off She/Her in e-mails , official correspondence, on their E-mail Signatures. Like you need to prove it. Shoot me if I ever have to do it.