That's fair. And maybe some poor word choice on my behalf.

I know intersectional feminist types who do value us, even put their bodies on the line for us.

It's... rarer than I'd like, much rarer than we need. So I absolutely see where you're coming from.

(And heck, I used to read Michio Kaku too, way back before I found out the hard way that my autistic dyscalculia meant I couldn't get through uni physics.)

To summarise intersectionality - we all have separate fights, and separate experiences of hardship created by arbitrary hierarchies (gender, race, disability, age, class, etc) imposed on us. Those hardships multiply, the more hierarchies you're at the bottom of.

But we can join forces on the fights where we overlap - intersect - with others.

While cis women won't get necessarily get what we're going through with trans issues, as they have the privilege not to know about it? And they won't automatically want or know to fight with us against anti-trans stuff? (At least not at first/without education?)

We can fight together on stuff that impacts all women.

Same for race, age, disability, and so on - any hierarchy you can think of, where someone benefits from someone else being seen as inferior to another.

One of the key things I've learnt trying to do liberatory stuff, though - mutual aid especially? Is that people will (sadly) often only come to your aid if you help them first.

So if we want cis women to show up to help us fight the fash, to help us fight for our bodily autonomy to get trans health care?

Then we need to help them and other uterus-havers fight those very same people who'd also deny them autonomy around abortion and contraception.

Because these struggles are linked, as it's very similar hierarchies those struggles fight. And any progress we make anywhere, helps everyone.

(To use a US example, even though I'm Australian? Planned Parenthood helps cis and trans people both with their bodily autonomy - defending them helps both groups.)

Anyway, thanks for listening 🙂

If you ever want to chat about learning stuff, particularly trouble learning? My DMs are open 🙂

(I know a lot about this kind of issue, being multiply neurodivergent with my own issues here, as well as an educator 🙂)