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AIBU to think women should not be banned from Social media for asking the question

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Angryresister · 27/01/2021 09:13

Many women have been suspended from sm for asking the question:
“Do you believe that male sexed people should be allowed access to changing rooms and showers for female sexed people and teenagers?”
Seems like a perfectly reasonable question which we should be allowed to ask

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HeyDuggeesCakeBadge · 27/01/2021 09:15

YANBU it's outrageous that women are being treated like this.

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WeatherwaxOn · 27/01/2021 09:17

It is a valid question. But....
What if the male sexed person has undergone various hormonal treatments and surgery to make them as physically close to a female sexed person as possible? Someone who genuinely lives their life as female. Where should they go? What facilities should they use?

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Ohalrightthen · 27/01/2021 09:20

@WeatherwaxOn

It is a valid question. But....
What if the male sexed person has undergone various hormonal treatments and surgery to make them as physically close to a female sexed person as possible? Someone who genuinely lives their life as female. Where should they go? What facilities should they use?

No, you can't ask that question!
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Sheleg · 27/01/2021 09:21

@WeatherwaxOn

It is a valid question. But....
What if the male sexed person has undergone various hormonal treatments and surgery to make them as physically close to a female sexed person as possible? Someone who genuinely lives their life as female. Where should they go? What facilities should they use?

The men's.

No amount of hormones or surgery or "living as a woman" (whatever that means - usually just confirming to stereotypes) can turn XY chromosomes into XX.
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teawamutu · 27/01/2021 09:23

@WeatherwaxOn

It is a valid question. But....
What if the male sexed person has undergone various hormonal treatments and surgery to make them as physically close to a female sexed person as possible? Someone who genuinely lives their life as female. Where should they go? What facilities should they use?

I agree the men's may not be appropriate - but that doesn't mean the women's is. We're not just men without penises and male violence is not women's problem to solve.

Separate facilities, dignity and privacy for all.
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Clymene · 27/01/2021 09:26

@WeatherwaxOn

It is a valid question. But....
What if the male sexed person has undergone various hormonal treatments and surgery to make them as physically close to a female sexed person as possible? Someone who genuinely lives their life as female. Where should they go? What facilities should they use?

What does 'genuinely living their life as female' mean?
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OhAnotherNameChange · 27/01/2021 09:28

It is a valid question. But....
What if the male sexed person has undergone various hormonal treatments and surgery to make them as physically close to a female sexed person as possible? Someone who genuinely lives their life as female. Where should they go? What facilities should they use?


I'd be fully behind the inclusion of third spaces that provide a safe and private space for transgender people to use, should they not want to use the space of their biological sex (and I understand why they might not want to do this).

Their feelings of discomfort don't outweigh the feelings of women's discomfort. This seems like the best solution for everyone involved.

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HoxtonBonnet · 27/01/2021 09:28

I agree OP. I am following this on Twitter and have been overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness, seeing intelligent, reasonable women silenced over this.

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teawamutu · 27/01/2021 09:29

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SeasonFinale · 27/01/2021 09:30

I think people should be banned from posting their anti trans stuff on the general pages of MN such as AIBU.

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Duckyneedsaclean · 27/01/2021 09:30

@teawamutu We're not just men without penises and male violence is not women's problem to solve. 👏👏👏👏

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lifeturnsonadime · 27/01/2021 09:30

No she should not have been banned from twitter for asking this question.

It is not hate speech.

Freedom of expression is important, no matter what side of the argument you are on.

This issue is divisive but I can tell you that women who post these questions are often subject to abuse on twitter or privately for what they have posted on twitter. The abuse they receive ought to result in a twitter ban but doesn't.

The powers that be don't want women to ask questions.

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Blubellsarebells · 27/01/2021 09:32

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lifeturnsonadime · 27/01/2021 09:32

@SeasonFinale

I think people should be banned from posting their anti trans stuff on the general pages of MN such as AIBU.

Why is it anti trans to protect women's safe spaces? I've never seen a reasonable answer to this question.

Why is it the responsibility of women to protect transwomen from male violence. Why can't the men step up?

Why do we have to accept male bodies in our safe spaces with no debate?
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OhAnotherNameChange · 27/01/2021 09:33

@SeasonFinale what is trabsohobic about women wanting single sex spaces to remain single sex?

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Blubellsarebells · 27/01/2021 09:36

"I think people should be banned from posting their anti trans stuff on the general pages of MN such as AIBU."
So you think the question is anti trans?
Are womens spaces anti trans?
Is me not wanting my little sister and nieces to see strange penises anti trans?
Seems like trans rights are anti safegaurding if so.

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Simarilion · 27/01/2021 09:38

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AStudyinPink · 27/01/2021 09:40

It is absolutely valid and it is disgusting that anyone should be banned from anywhere for asking it.

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CokeAndPepsi · 27/01/2021 09:42

@SeasonFinale

I think people should be banned from posting their anti trans stuff on the general pages of MN such as AIBU.

This.
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Clymene · 27/01/2021 09:45

Wanting to preserve single sex spaces as provided for in law is not 'anti-trans'

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MrsHusky · 27/01/2021 09:47

No she shouldn't be banned but, its not THAT black and white as some people are saying.

I know a lot of Transwomen, i can assure you, not ONE of them has ANY kind of intention of abusing/raping a woman, and i have absolutely no issue in sharing shower/bathroom space with them, and have done at various conventions where we've used the spaces swimming pools/public toilets.

Personally, there ought to be a 'genderless' facility available for those who dont want to be in the male/female spaces, or lockable cubicles provided now.

There are enough non-binary folk around who aren't trans, but who still dont want to be in their bio-gender bathrooms that society ought to adapt to be inclusive.

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BigPaperBag · 27/01/2021 09:47

Why can’t there be a trans m-f and f-m changing room? So we have 4 changing rooms (plus a disabled one) As women, we deserve our dignity too and shouldn’t have to bow to the feelings of the minority.

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DappledOliveGroves · 27/01/2021 09:47

@SeasonFinale @CokeAndPepsi

Genuinely trying to understand here and would be grateful for your response.

Let's take this scenario - middle aged man decides he was born in the wrong body. Over the course of a few weeks or months he starts wearing make up, padded bras. Perhaps he wears a wig. Other than that, nothing else changes about him. He decides to go to a sports centre, perhaps there's a children's swimming class there. You are telling me that women and girls have no right to object to this individual using the female changing rooms? This individual can shower - naked if he chooses - in front of pre-pubescent children and no-one has any right to object? Jewish women, Muslim women - they have to accept a penis in their changing room?

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MammaMiaWallace · 27/01/2021 09:50

@Simarilion “ surely many people feel they should be richer, younger, more attractive than they actually are, but that changes nothing about them physically!”

And crucially, there’s not a broader expectation of validation and consequential infringement upon the rights protected in law for the group they perceive themselves to belong to; a group whose lines of definition I.e. biological sex, are thus muddied to the extent it becomes a meaningless legal category. 😡🤬

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Thedramasummer · 27/01/2021 09:52

@BigPaperBag

Why can’t there be a trans m-f and f-m changing room? So we have 4 changing rooms (plus a disabled one) As women, we deserve our dignity too and shouldn’t have to bow to the feelings of the minority.

Most places won’t have the space for all these areas, what will end up happening is unisex areas.
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