Women did not ask for this fight. We did it go out on a “trans hunt.” We did not complain when a small number of transwomen were using our spaces, even though some of us may have felt discomfort or even threatened. We did what women are trained from birth to do: we accepted that the needs of males outweighed our own. No male is trained in similar fashion to put the needs of females above his own, as we see in all the appealing to us to understand where a particular male’s needs begin and end, compared to the absence of any male ever posting simply to ask: what can I do to help women?
The fight we did not ask for came to us. Suddenly we were talking about a population of males in women’s spaces several orders of magnitude larger than we’d before acquiesced to, along with far more intrusion into far more spaces: hospital rooms, ffs, or changing rooms at work where we’re now expected to strip down with male colleagues, or hostels where we’re expected somehow to sleep peacefully beside male strangers.
Meanwhile, they came for our children, advocating and grooming our kids into unconscionable medical experimentation.
Throughout all this, with rare exception, transexuals who might have made a difference years ago remained silent.
Now — now — that women are fighting back and beginning to turn the tide, now that women are saying that no males belong in our spaces, now that transing children is being recognised for the medical abuse that it is, some transsexuals are making special pleading that’s they are different and we’re never part of the malevolence women are now fighting.
But the principled time to speak up was years ago. Speaking up only now — we’ll, the word that comes to mind is: opportunism.