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"You don't speak for all women" - how to handle transallies?

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FairfaxAikman · 13/10/2018 15:49

WokeBro friend posted on FB "The only outcomes of not supporting your trans child is a dead trans child or a live but estranged trans child".

I'm openly GC and gave the usual responses about women needing sex segregated spaces free from penises etc (to which he asked me whose job is it to decide eligibility Hmm) but now a female ally has told me "you don't speak for all women".
I've pointed out that neither does she but can anyone help me further argue my point please? I can't find the evidence that i'm looking for and i'm not as eloquent as some others here.

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Somerville · 13/10/2018 15:58

Answer to whose job to decide eligibility is that women’s privacy and dignity and safety is not going to be left to men to decide. And that no woman can give permission on behalf of another. So many women are happy with a male doctor given them an intimate examination, but Doctors surgeries make sure that female staff are freely available for women who request them. The fact that some women don’t doesn’t mean no-one needs them there.

If he starts saying “literal violence” about the definition of women or something then tell him you won’t debate it further - if someone doesn’t know the difference between literal and figurative then there’s no hope of a sensible conversation IME.

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