What the Trans Moment Has to Offer Radical Feminism (Part Two)

What if male supremacy is no longer about reproductive biology? What if male supremacy’s engine has changed? That question comes to mind whenever I read in trans-critical radical feminists’ writings their bedrock argument that women are oppressed on account of their reproductive capacity. This central historical assertion often appears as a proof text in debates with trans folk and their allies—like a factual gotcha hurled to discredit the opposition. Occasionally this viewpoint is referenced to account for who’s doing the oppressing (sperm producers presumably). More often it’s used to set apart the folks the oppression happens to—like a tenet of faith that’s self-evident to its true believers because their membership in the oppressed sex class rests on their biological certitude. The argument that women are oppressed on account of their reproductive capacity leads logically and ineluctably to several corollary arguments. For instance, the view that if female binary biological sex

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