Wow. Have you seen all the Pride and Trans flags flying in the audiences at Glastonbury?

However, the point is that public policy has to be made for all, based on a realistic assessment of the risk that men pose to women.

So while you are happy to take that risk personally, and don’t perceive men to be more dangerous to you than women, the law etc has to be based on real crime statistics, where it’s clear than men present an overwhelmingly higher risk to women than women do to other women. Trans women retain the same offending patterns as men, including things like voyeurism, and for that reason any risk assessment should be made on that basis.

This doesn’t even take into account those women who have experienced male violence and would find the presence of a male person in the next bed very traumatising.

Rules have to take everyone into account.

Thank you. I'm happy with my method of risk assessment.

Well we agree. 👍

So if your (same) friend was in prison. Would you not expect her to be assured that she wouldn't be sharing a cell with a man?

No I would hope if she wished a female doctor she would get one. Very simple.

Leave the AI / Pigeon / Troll alone

it is not discussing in any faith let alone good faith.

Does anybody have any recent pictures of the Block 9 "artwork" ?

Physical power imbalance and greater tendency of males to use their power on women is reality borne out by crime stats, it’s not my thoughts.

Happy to accept this doesn’t bother you when interacting with strangers when you are in a vulnerable state, but I don’t agree that your risk assessment is correct.

Why cant you believe me? Think about any nice man you know. Picture him in your head. Now think of a female person you wouldnt trust (I'm being careful how I word this so as not to offend). Now imagine waking up beside both of them in hospital. Are you honestly saying that simply because the woman was female you would feel safer beside her?

Because I wonder if you would forgo any safeguarding systems at all for them.

If your female friend had been abused by a man and wanted a female doctor to do a medical exam, would you defend that Dr Upton (for example) did it? Where is your line? For your female friends?

But that's your thoughts on the matter. Not mine. Someone thinks I'm lying because I dont view people/situations the exact same way as her.

Because of the strength power and size imbalance, there is a difference when waking up with strangers on a hospital ward.

Any man who chooses to do so could overpower me, and I would not be able to prevent this, I just rely on him not choosing to do so. Another woman might not be able to hurt me, I might be stronger than her. Women are less likely to use violence for this reason.

Why cant you believe me? Think about any nice man you know. Picture him in your head. Now think of a female person you wouldnt trust (I'm being careful how I word this so as not to offend). Now imagine waking up beside both of them in hospital. Are you honestly saying that simply because the woman was female you would feel safer beside her?

Eeesh, not sure where your caricatures of mental illness come from

Do you have any female friends?

The point about public spaces is that they are full of people you don't know, and whose movements you have no say in. We've all got lovely husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, and male friends who we love...but most of us still want the privacy of single sex spaces in public situations.

Yes women can be horrible too......but the level of instinctive safeguarding is just not there in the same way as with a male person...and I think you know that too.

Well where do I start? Running around the room panicked and talking to themselves, laughing loudly and uncontrollably to themselves. I'm sure you can appreciate what I mean! That would make me far more uneasy than simply a man being in the room.

You are, of course, free to use unisex facilities if you prefer them.

Thinking about it, I'd much rather be led by a donkey than led by a lion. If you were led by a lion you'd be standing around for 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day while she had a good sleep, followed by a rather hairy and gory 15 minutes of holding on for dear life as she chased down a zebra (or, in a UK context, possibly your neighbour's Labrador). Donkeys are quite steady and patient and probably pretty decent at following trails and things. They'd also give you a lift when you got knackered.

I don't think they've thought the name through.

Why cant you believe me? Think about any nice man you know. Picture him in your head. Now think of a female person you wouldnt trust (I'm being careful how I word this so as not to offend). Now imagine waking up beside both of them in hospital. Are you honestly saying that simply because the woman was female you would feel safer beside her?

Why cant you believe me? Think about any nice man you know. Picture him in your head. Now think of a female person you wouldnt trust (I'm being careful how I word this so as not to offend). Now imagine waking up beside both of them in hospital. Are you honestly saying that simply because the woman was female you would feel safer beside her?

That's interesting, what were the stickers?

I agree I wouldnt want men and womens toilets to be mixed. Not least because I think men's toilets are yucky. But what I dont actually have a problem with is a transwoman using the female toilets. I still appreciate he is biologically male though.

I don't believe you. Certainly not if you are female.