Oh, I can help with this one: it’s referring to the pussyhats.
IOW, the article is talking about how Trump’s notorious pro-groping remark about “you can grab 'em by the pussy” became a rallying point for many people disgusted by his attitude and policies. So the female reproductive system became kind of a theme for the marchers, what with all the pink hats and signs about the GOP “elephant in the womb”, etc.
And some transgender women apparently found that off-putting because it seemed to equate “woman” more with having a female reproductive system than with actual gender identification. Hence the claim about “genital-based feminism” excluding trans women.
So, to answer your question, that’s what that even means. With all due respect to your article’s author, though, I have to say that on the ground at the actual DC march, as opposed to second- and third-hand ruminations about internet arguments with march organizers, there seemed to be plenty of respect for trans people and plenty of signs stressing the importance of intersectionality and rights to gender expression for everybody, etc. And it says right in the Women’s March Unity Principles that “it is our obligation to uplift, expand and protect the rights of our gay, lesbian, bi, queer, trans or gender non-conforming brothers, sisters and siblings. We must have the power to control our bodies and be free from gender norms, expectations and stereotypes.”
So I’m thinking your linked article may be a bit of a tempest in a teapot. Nothing that I saw at the march, and nothing that I can see in the march principles, suggests that anybody was actually advocating for “genital-based” feminism or exclusion of trans people.
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Isn’t it great to have normal people running the country…
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:dubious: Well, if you consider it “normal” to have a President who (for example) is so narcissistically fixated on his personal image that he can’t stand it that somebody else’s crowds were bigger than his, or that somebody else got more votes than he did, so he has to keep making up and repeating lies in order to deny the facts.
That doesn’t really sound “normal” to me. I think it’s a lot more normal, and a lot more healthy, for people to devote attention to, say, figuring out how to reconcile pushing back against traditional misogyny directed at cisgender women with respecting the identity of transgender women, than to spend their time obsessing over ways to fool or bully the public into believing lies about their popularity ratings.
But hey, if you personally happen to like Trump’s behavior, fine by me.
