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If you’re curious femme in French is kinda pronounced like fam from family. Maybe a slightly longer a but long and short vowels in French are kinda volatile and heavily subject to local accents so meh

I’m also not a native speaker but my language/country operates under similar enough “rules”.

On top of what other people have said, cultural identifies, e.g. lesbian, can have a more specific and inclusive definition/understanding at the same time, for example in relation to non binary people.

There are also more precise terms in use inside the queer community than can be helpful to communicate with others. You have a look at finsexual, minsexual, sapphic, or achilean, for exemple. Labels in general don’t gather that much consensus and are more useful as a self descriptive thing.

Another aspect is the sex is just like gender socially constructed, and we only choose the terms male/female to designate people based on a loose list of physical characteristics, and those choices are arbitrary. Same thing with hono/heterosexuality.

Words like homosexual aren’t really in fashion anymore, although if I needed to describe myself to someone without much awareness I could describe myself as a homosexual transgender woman but that wouldn’t be my first choice.

Also, I think we can all understand that when people are looking to learn, they might not have the best language yet but I appreciate your disclaimer. It’s usually preferred to only use their actual gender (the one they will tell you, rather than the one under was assigned to them at birth) when taking to/about trans people. Saying something like trans man or transfeminine people, respectively a trans person that feels and want to be considered as a man (is a man is what I would say when not trying to explain things) and a trans person that is transitioning towards more feminity (that can be a trans woman or a feminine non binary peeson, amongst other things), will be enough information for people to understand without having to misgenger anyone.

I hope I’m making things clearer instead of more complicated.

As a French woman, femme in French, maybe femme in the sense of femme, definitely fem though, it makes conversations akward 😄

I do prononce it the accepted way in English, don’t worry.

Very fair point. The AMOC collapse is not going to be a problem for a while though. Time to invade Greenland then? That one should be plenty arable by then. Iceland too for logistics, probably. I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the amount of collateral damage now.

Maybe we should.

Statistics-wise, let’s assume that the repartition of potential combating she people is the same.

Terf Island + their occipied territories’ population is 69 millions people.

A conservative estimate of the trans part of the population is about 1%.

World population is 8B, which would make a ratio of 80/69 if favor of trans people.

Considering that a quick search on military doctrine yields the amount of 10 soldiers per 1000 inhabitants, 20 in the case of active insurgency, the numbers are there.

If we expand to LGBTQIA+ people in general, I don’t have a lot of stats but polling in the US gives 9%, which I’ll round to 10% because I suck at math and it’s 2AM. That brings that number to 800/69.

Then, there’s the question of armaments. Reliance on the enemies of the UK proved quite effective the last time they faced a civil war so this seems doable.

Understanding how the UK treated the population they colonized as a frame of reference for how they should consider the idea of others colonizing them, it is clear they are clearly not afraid enough.

Did I spend 10min typing this just out of spite for terf Island? Yes. Was it worth it? No.