Anonymous I just got attacked on a blog for stating that I think sometimes it's okay for cis-only spaces given that trans-women typically grow up being perceived as males, thus benefit from male-privilege growing up. I was called transmysoginist. I have trans friends who say that there are certain things I've dealt with as a lifelong female that they'll never understand, just as I'll never understand their plights obviously. What do you think of cis-only spaces?(sure you've been asked before, sorry if so)

“Cis” (unless you mean geometric isomerism) and “transmisogyny” are both words coined by trans activists (the latter by Julia Serano, which only tells me to run as fast as I can from the term).

Women aren’t “cis”, if cis is this:

There is no privilege in being female, and conforming to femininity (what they call “gender expression”) is one of the ways in which women are oppressed by patriarchy. It has nothing to do with personal choices. And because there aren’t any privileges in being female, how can women have cis privilege? Right, they can’t. How can women even be cis? They can’t. As far as I’m concerned, no woman is “cis”.

So, I don’t think “cis only” spaces is necessary, I think female born women only spaces is necessary. And mixed spaces, and spaces for only trans women (as WBW don’t share many of their issues, just as they don’t share many of ours). I think both are important, and I think the right for women to decide for themselves who they want to include in their women only spaces also is something feminists have been fighting for since forever and nothing that anyone else should be able to change.

- Pi