"Lots of women disagree with you!" - How to respond to this?

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TERFCat · 09/06/2024 15:32

Recently, the "many women disagree with TERFs" (or something to that effect) argument has been given as a response to me.

How would you respond to this point?

Hypothetically, if there was a poll and 99% of women agreed yo allow men in women's safe spaces, what would you say?

I'm gender critical through and through BTW! I just can't think of a good response to the above points!

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Waitwhat23 · 09/06/2024 15:47

I would ask what, specifically, they disagree with.

Women are self excluding from rape crisis services because those services are refusing to provide single sex services.

Services are being asked to provide (or more strictly speaking, go back to providing) a single sex service, alongside the 'inclusive' mixed services they currently provide.

They are not only refusing to do this but are attacking services which provide this and are receiving funding from other sources (for example Beira's Place). It's worth bearing in mind that the existence of the other single sex service will not impact the funding that the mixed sex service receives in any way but the mixed sex service still campaigns against it's existence.

I would ask why they disagree with single sex services being available alongside the others.

And even if 99% of women disagreed, what would they suggest should happen for the women who cannot use mixed sex services, for a number of reasons.

NoSnowdrop · 09/06/2024 15:46

What is a woman?

YouJustDoYou · 09/06/2024 15:45

"I personally wouldn't be getting my 'stats' from Thicktok, but if that's what you prefer..."

Runningupthecurtains · 09/06/2024 15:42

'and plenty more agree with me! When polls are conducted they show a majority are on my side.'

AlbertVille · 09/06/2024 15:39

“Don’t be daft, no one thinks it’s possible to change sex. Not even you.”

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