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To wonder if there's any actual evidence that's trans women are not safe in male loos?

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Evedence · 24/05/2025 17:40

I feel, as a FWR lurker, that I would have seen linked articles to bank up the fact that trans identifying men aren't safe in men's loos, and therefore that's the rational why women should budge up and accept trans identifying men in their spaces.

I'm pretty sure with a quick Google I could fund evident that trans identity men have made women's spaces unsafe (Kate delowski? The one who worked for a charity and made a masturbation video).

So AIBU to wonder what hard evidence there is?

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Katkins17 · 25/05/2025 08:33

The fact that all the trans activist come out with the ‘yes but theres single stalls….women aren’t at risk from TW….’ …. Makes me wonder, if this is the case, why don't these men/TW use the ‘single stalls’ in men’s spaces ????
Never had an answer to that though.

it’s all validation to TW…the ‘look at me in a woman’s space’ with their foot on the sink 'trophy hunter' pose photos…male entitlement at its finest.

plus all the wanking videos, and comments about listening to women pee….the rifling through tampon boxes etc…. Activists will tell you this doesn’t happen, but there’s enough evidence to prove it does….why done women want this in our spaces ????

5128gap · 25/05/2025 08:11

I've never thought of it as 'its not safe to allow transwomen in women's toilets'. To me it's always been 'its not safe to open women's toilets to men, due to the high levels of male VAWG'. (Plus the many other reasons women don't want men in their private spaces, in addition to safety concerns) I don't think that view is even controversial - transwomen agree the presence of men in toilets creates a risk to women.
The controversy has always been whether transwomen should be excluded from the group 'men', and included in the group 'women' hence not part of the group that should be excluded based on risk.
To make this about whether TW as individuals are dangerous requires we agree that they are a seperate group of 'not men' and examine them separately from men as a whole. The SC ruling has been clear we should not do this, so how safe or otherwise they are as individuals is really moot.
It's also a bit of a straw man where the lovely transwomen we know who wouldn't hurt a fly are offered up, and met with I raise you Katie Dolatowski (and others) on a loop. Which just contributes to the idea that transwomen are being stereotyped for the actions of a few, when that's not the point at issue. The point has always been that access to women's spaces requires one to be a woman.

The13thFairy · 25/05/2025 08:08

'There is plenty of evidence' - where is it, then? I've never seen any at all.

Thelostjewels · 25/05/2025 07:48

I'm sure it's been said but unfortunately being a trans woman doesn't bring down male violence eg stats have DD shown trans women can still be violent men underneath

Threestripesswoosh · 25/05/2025 07:19

Holdonforsummer · 24/05/2025 17:48

Probably as much evidence as there is to say women are unsafe when trans-women use female toilets. I feel sorry for everyone who has got themselves hyped up about this, I really do.

Oh, that’s kind, but no need. Not hyped up, but am concerned for less privileged women and girls than me - that need safe women-only toilets, rape crisis centres and toilets, to name a few. I know it can be difficult to see that when you have better options available to you than others might.

ThrowawayAccount29 · 25/05/2025 07:17

HangryLikeTheHulk · 24/05/2025 17:50

I think it’s up to the trans person to decide which option is safer for them, depending on the situation, venue, context and risk.

Oh dear 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️ Are you trans?

ThrowawayAccount29 · 25/05/2025 07:14

I don’t care. They’re blokes so I don’t want them in there, violent or not. They make me feel uncomfortable so that’s all that matters. They either need to go to the men’s or the disabled loos.

Annoyedone · 25/05/2025 07:13

TheOriginalEmu · 24/05/2025 20:47

Trans women aren’t going to have Ben going into men’s toilets, until now, are they yhey have been in the woman’s toilets. So maybe no direct evidence yet.
but how often are camp or effeminate gay men mistreated in men’s toilets? All the time. So k can’t imagine trans women will care any better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68144562.amp

So are you suggesting we allow all gay men in women’s toilets as well? I mean, why should one group of men be protected and another not?

Annoyedone · 25/05/2025 07:06

TheOriginalEmu · 24/05/2025 20:43

You know what it is. Don’t be disingenuous.

Nope. I know man which is an adult human male and woman which is an adult human female. I am assuming cis is a word made up by the TRA?

Funnywonder · 24/05/2025 23:21

BruceAndNosh · 24/05/2025 19:24

My issue is that if we allow trans identified males to use female spaces in good faith, we also risk allowing other men - not trans - to access those spaces in bad faith.

Succinctly put. For me, this is one of the most important considerations in the whole debate (which shouldn’t even be a debate.) How are we supposed to know we are safe? If a man, who identifies as a man (I’m not using that stupid cis word), walks into the women’s toilets, we are immediately on our guard because he shouldn’t be there. We are suspicious. We might quickly walk out - if we’re lucky - I mean what is he doing there if not to do something criminal? If same man walks in wearing a dress, we are supposed to ignore our natural instinct to be wary and just casually continue what we’re doing. Any man could do that. Any man at all. The sort of man who wants to sexually assault a woman is going to take/create any opportunity he can. And he can stand there, in his dress, while we trip over ourselves trying to be nice and respectful, all the while semi-unwittingly placing ourselves in a more vulnerable situation. It’s a fucking disgrace that women should have to spend time worrying about this nonsense.

BundleBoogie · 24/05/2025 22:34

TheOriginalEmu · 24/05/2025 20:47

Trans women aren’t going to have Ben going into men’s toilets, until now, are they yhey have been in the woman’s toilets. So maybe no direct evidence yet.
but how often are camp or effeminate gay men mistreated in men’s toilets? All the time. So k can’t imagine trans women will care any better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68144562.amp

So why do you think one group of men should get privileged treatment and allowed to use an alternate space and not others?

I note your total lack of regard for women who want male free spaces - we are the majority after all.

ItsYerMaw · 24/05/2025 22:32

StormyPotatoes · 24/05/2025 19:16

Is it only trans people who get to decide this or can anyone make this decision?

Effeminate men can just opt to use the women’s toilets as it’s safer for them? Boys who are bullied by other boys at school can choose to use the girls? Men who are known for sexually assaulting children would probably be safer in the women’s too…

Nah, only trans people are allowed a voice and their decisions trump all. Doesn’t matter how women feel anymore, it only matters that the trans female fantasy is maintained

ItsYerMaw · 24/05/2025 22:24

I’m so glad to see reasonable people in this thread. This is a topic no one can go against without being called all sorts of names, cos only one opinion matters eh?

Trans men should no be in women’s toilets. Trans women should not be in men’s toilets. The end. Biological male cosplaying as a female wants to use the women’s toilets to feel more comfortable (read: to aid their fantasy), so screw how women feel? It’s absolutely ridiculous. Why should I, as a woman and as a mother of 2 daughters, be made to feel uncomfortable or unsafe just so someone else doesn’t feel that way?

I don’t care how you choose to live your life, I really don’t because it doesn’t affect me but when it DOES start affecting me then I’m allowed to have a voice and not be dogpiled because of it.

Helleofabore · 24/05/2025 22:13

Velmy · 24/05/2025 19:31

You're wrong about women being challenged in toilets, and resorting to slating people's looks is just lazy nastiness.

The only trans woman I know in real life is a nailed on 10/10 and I guarantee you wouldn't be able to pick them out of a line up if your life depended on it.

Just because you, personally, cannot correctly identify the sex of a male person in real life doesn’t mean female people don’t have a high likelihood of correctly identifying the sex of a male person.

Helleofabore · 24/05/2025 22:07

For all those people declaring that this group of male people should have access to female single sex spaces, what other vulnerable groups of male people should be allowed into female single sex spaces to protect them?

Why is this group considered for such special treatment?

Helleofabore · 24/05/2025 22:03

Fruitbat99 · 24/05/2025 19:25

No, I've never heard of a trans woman assaulting anyone in a toilet. I jave heard of cis men attacking men and women in toilets though.

Why does it have to be ‘assault’? I have been abused and intimidated by a male person with a transgender identity. Why should I have to potentially share a space that should be single sex with that male person ?

localnotail · 24/05/2025 21:45

I would imagine openly camp gay people get assaulted in male toilets, too. So should they use female toilets to be safe?

tartyflette · 24/05/2025 21:08

Sorry, just clarfying that the person in question in my post above was called Cobalt, the story is the first one within the post I quoted,
'Cobalt was assaulted by a man' item in the Metro paper.

BrickJoker · 24/05/2025 21:07

Like I previously said, just use disabled.

TheKeatingFive · 24/05/2025 21:02

BrickJoker · 24/05/2025 21:00

To be fair, I don't think gay men have any interest in women.... I'm not saying they should be allowed into women's toilets, but gay men aren't predatory womanisers.

That's fairly irrelevant to whether they should have access to women's toilets.

As they are men, the answer is no. Same with all men.

BrickJoker · 24/05/2025 21:00

StormyPotatoes · 24/05/2025 20:57

Right, so no evidence that transwomen actually are more at risk in men’s toilets but that male on male violence exists?

So what? Should we welcome effeminate gay men into the women’s toilets too then? Or, do you think maybe male on male violence is an issue that needs to be tackled by men without using women as human shields?

To be fair, I don't think gay men have any interest in women.... I'm not saying they should be allowed into women's toilets, but gay men aren't predatory womanisers.

TheKeatingFive · 24/05/2025 20:59

And why distinguish between trans identifying men and gay men then? If both sets are vulnerable? Should all be allowed in the women's toilets? And what about other vulnerable men? Disabled men? Older men? Do they all get let in?

TheKeatingFive · 24/05/2025 20:58

TheOriginalEmu · 24/05/2025 20:47

Trans women aren’t going to have Ben going into men’s toilets, until now, are they yhey have been in the woman’s toilets. So maybe no direct evidence yet.
but how often are camp or effeminate gay men mistreated in men’s toilets? All the time. So k can’t imagine trans women will care any better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68144562.amp

So men, treating other men badly, in men's spaces.

Naturally this needs to be addressed, but why on earth would it be women's problem to solve?

StormyPotatoes · 24/05/2025 20:57

TheOriginalEmu · 24/05/2025 20:47

Trans women aren’t going to have Ben going into men’s toilets, until now, are they yhey have been in the woman’s toilets. So maybe no direct evidence yet.
but how often are camp or effeminate gay men mistreated in men’s toilets? All the time. So k can’t imagine trans women will care any better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68144562.amp

Right, so no evidence that transwomen actually are more at risk in men’s toilets but that male on male violence exists?

So what? Should we welcome effeminate gay men into the women’s toilets too then? Or, do you think maybe male on male violence is an issue that needs to be tackled by men without using women as human shields?

tartyflette · 24/05/2025 20:51

HangryLikeTheHulk · 24/05/2025 18:18

Trans people are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violence.

Cobalt was assaulted by a man

Two women assaulted a transgender person in a womens toilet

Trans man attacked by men for using women’s bathroom

As I said, trans people should use whatever they feel comfortable with given the risk / venue / context.

Story from the London paper Metro. This person was assaulted because his attackers thought he was gay, a gay male -- they called him a homophopic slur. Clearly he did not pass.
This again shows that it's the behaviour of men that needs to be changed so that male toilets are absolutely safe for all men, gay and trans included.
If this individual had gone into the women's bathroom he would have been noticed as a male intruder. But no-one involved in this highly one-sided story seems to have given any thought as to how women might have felt seeing a male in their space.
Looking at the photo I definitely see a young man.
Metro invites us to leave a comment below the piece. But somehow the comments section does not appear.

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