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This is from a discussion on social media. The author is a transwoman.

" Both the affirmers and the deniers do little, if anything, to help in the ultimate goal of the emancipation of the feminine, which requires an adequate resolution to a problem: that feminism as it expresses itself today is based on a contradictory dynamic, in which we have the simultaneous existence of oppositional orientations. These orientations are trans-exclusionary feminism and trans-inclusive feminism, where the former aims for the emancipation of women as a class from subordination by men as a class and where the latter aims for the emancipation of woman from natural and conventional limits.

While the aim of each orientation also includes the other, each orientation gives precedence to one aim over the other, in such a way as to give a one-sided and partial expression of it. The trans-exclusionaries end up having an essentialist conception of what a woman is, thus contradicting the other aim to emancipate women from arbitrary limits by imposing qualifying limits of their own. The trans-inclusives end up being unable to adequately discriminate between adequate and inadequate expressions of womanhood that doesn't just reproduce stereotypes or reduce itself to absurdity, where the only qualification for being considered a woman is to merely identify as one, thus contradicting the other aim to emancipate women from men because the class structure becomes occluded and hard to distinguish.

This kind of oscillating dialectic between two contradictory poles is one in which antagonistic contraries become merely focused on reproducing themselves as distinct positions posing themselves in opposition to each other, thus continuing to reproduce the contradiction and hence perpetuating suffering. It expresses itself as a form of identitarian selfishness, where what seems to truly matter is the validation of our own concerns at the expense of the other rather than the struggle of resolving a real issue with that other. Such self-concern cocoons oneself in a world of delusion, where both the other and reality appears only in the image that the self expects or wants it to look, rather than really engaging with this other and truly seeing the concern that they both share in common. This engagement with the real requires partial sacrifice of what one usually considers as their essential, indestructible and unquestionable self, where what really matters is that the self enfolds and unfolds itself within and through a process greater than itself, rather than the reverse by intending to master reality by attempting to make it appear the way one wants it to appear."