At Philobiblon. Always feminist.

Which takes one to intense and dense analysis of something I’d not heard of before, namely lazy transphobic cis feminism.

Eeek. 

Wikipedia helps on Cisgender, but not much:

Cisgender is a neologism that means "someone who is comfortable in the gender they were assigned at birth"

Which is a definition itself full of trite progressive assumptions, namely that gender is ‘assigned’ and that one may or may not be ‘comfortable’ with what one gets.

Anyway, Laurie Penny armed with a quiver of Dave Spart adverbs (utterly, entirely) is utterly and entirely against lazy transphobicism in all its forms:

Femininity is a social construct and Bindel is right to identify it as such. She is utterly wrong, however, to claim that transsexual men and women are any guiltier than cis men and women of re-enforcing damaging stereotypes. In fact, the misogyny and sexist stereotyping that Bindel identifies as associated with trans identities are entirely imposed on the trans community by external forces.

"Feminity is a social construct".

A familiar refrain, all the odder since it rules out much of Nature from us humans, yet often comes from people who often are the loudest on environmental issues.

And is it simply untrue? As scientists are (perhaps) demonstrating:

The notion that females are more highly invested in their children than males is being confirmed by findings in biochemistry and neuroscience, as these disciplines clarify the role of hormones—particularly testosterone and oxytocin—in sexual and reproductive behavior.

I’ll stick to the Balkans. A lot more straightforward.