Q&A thread for New Posters

Well ~98% of sexual offences are committed by males.

There's zero evidence at the moment that any type of transition (social, medical, top surgery or bottom surgery) has any effect on this.

Why is cis a banned term? Why do people get so cross when it is used on here?

I finally understand what sea-lioning is from this definition. The cartoon, which I've seen before as an explanation, doesn't make sense to me at all, and seems to be about something completely different

My thoughts exactly. I also think the cartoon is a bit silly, but the behaviour it describes when enacted by actual humans rather than anthropomorphised pinnipeds* with a grudge is a very real thing. I couldn’t give a hoot that the cartoon isn’t that helpful, because the phrase itself is useful to me.

thank you arabella* for my word of the weekend. I hope I’ve spelled it correctly

I have heard GC women say that men might pretend to be trans to attack women and that's why transwomen should not be allowed to share with women. I have seen many rebuttals saying that men would not go to that much trouble to gain access to victims nor would they do it in a way that would make them so disadvantaged in society.

Now I know that's not strictly true because of high profile cases of violent and/or abusive people who claimed to be trans and used this to gain access to victims. I'm thinking of Karen White, Jessica Yaniv and Barbie Kardashian. They all claim to be transwomen. I'm told it is unfair to pick on these very rare cases as an indication that violent men will claim to be trans. You can find violent people in any group.

Is it rare? Does it matter? Is it genuinely a problem? Or just a disguise for bigotry? Is there any evidence one way or the other?

Since the Judicial Review brought by Keira Bell, GIDS now require a clinician to apply to the Court of Protection for permission to give the puberty blockers because they're considered an experimental drug in the context of gender dysphoria. The ruling of the review is being appealed.

Adults can do what they like.

^^ Regarding the toilet issue, I've said recently that the TRA response when we say we don't want men (however they identify) in our spaces is to say that if men want to attack us they'll just come in anyway. So if TW are afraid of being attacked by other males (this seems to be their reason for wanting to use ladies toilets), why do they feel safer if, by their own reasoning, men can just come in anyway?

I have requested this info from our resident trans posters arguing that they must use the women’s facilities because they are in such terrible danger in the men’s but still had nothing.

One respondent posted a self selected survey from about 6 yrs ago in America (a noteably different society to ours) that claimed greater danger but it wasn’t contextualised with violence suffered by any other group.

There have been zero trans people murdered in the uk since 2018 and on internet searches, despite the fact that the media (and Stonewall, Pink News etc) report any trans victim as being trans (but if they are a perpetrator they are reported as they choose, usually as a woman) I’m struggling find any reports of violence against trans people that fits the argument that they are safer in the women’s toilets.

In fact, the only ‘attack’ on a transwoman I could find was in Canada where a person was ’karate chopped’ by two girls in the ladies toilets after they challenged a male bodied person’s presence in the women’s facilities. I don’t think much actual injury took place.

It was mentioned by a man in social media that men are quite used to seeing bolder women pop into the men’s toilets because they don’t want to wait for the ladies so it sounds like not much attention would generally be paid to a female presenting person using the men’s toilets.

If anyone has found any actual reports of transwomen being attacked in the men’s facilities I would be interested to see. In the other hand I have seen some pretty awful reports of male people accessing women’s facilities to attack women and young girls.

Like you, I don't understand how this treatment saves lives. I also don't understand why a condition which we are told is neither a mental health condition nor a physical health condition needs treatment in the first place.

I hadn't heard of sealioning until today. I guess it's a diversion tactic, not unlike whataboutery.

@12frogsincoats for someone who thinks feminists are the hitler youth, you sure do spend a lot of time hanging out with us. Maybe you need a new hobby?

MildlyIrritated based on the ONS figures, trans people are actually safer (from murder) than the rest of the population.

www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-trans-people-murdered-uk

'The limited data we’re working with suggests that in the UK at least, the “trans murder rate” is lower than the UK average.

But – again based on unofficial figures – it appears that trans people are more likely to experience other violent crimes, for example domestic abuse.

All of this is a best guess, not a firm conclusion: we don’t yet have a robust estimate of the total trans population of the UK, and the number of recorded trans murder victims is so small that it would only take one or two more cases every year for the “trans murder rate” to double or triple.

The Office for National Statistics say they are working on creating a standard process for recording violence against trans people.'

Transphobia undoubtedly does exist - usually rooted in homophobia, I would suggest, and there are horrible people out there who just don't like people who are outwith the norm.

The trouble is that the definition of 'transphobia has been used to accuse people for - well, everything:

wingsoverscotland.com/everything-is-transphobic/

And the hate crime laws, including hate 'incidents', are so vague and problematic that I don't know how anyone can really refer to them usefully. Issues are, for example, that a hate incident can refer to absolutely anything, can be reported by absolutely anyone (not necessarily the 'victim'), are entirely a matter of perception.

Trans people share the same protections, rightly, as any other member of the population.

Transgender Trend have produced this review of the available evidence: www.transgendertrend.com/the-suicide-myth/

Interestingly, this definition fits a certain poster on here so well it could have been written with them in mind. I no longer provide this poster with any evidence or explanations, and if I reply to them at all, just ask them questions or make a very short comment.

I often see talk of "lifesaving trans healthcare" being banned or restricted.

What is the healthcare? How does it save lives?

Why would healthcare be refused to people presenting to the doctor saying they feel they are trans? What treatments are offered? What is the person's problem with being trans that requires medical intervention?

despite one being my own example

Are you suggesting that liberal feminists and radical feminists are the same, or what?

I've been subject to unwanted male attention more times than I can remember, from being stared at to having a stranger butt into conversations to being grabbed for a snog against my will to being groped to being followed and shouted at to being flashed and masturbated at. Thankfully never raped.

Now, maybe I'm just really unattractive to lesbians, but I think the difference is because males are socialised to think it's ok, reasonable and even unavoidable for them to impose their interest on females.

The issue isn't whether a person in our space might be sexually interested in us, it's whether they feel entitled to ignore our boundaries and act on that interest.

It's a very male thing to assume a lesbian is going to act like a man just because they both fancy women.

Well ~98% of sexual offences are committed by males.

Are transpeople at greater risk of suicide than people who do not identify as trans? What about for teenagers?

No. There's no evidence for this. Denmark have recently decided to reinstate women-only prisons because of the detrimental affect on the female prisoners