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@Helmetbymidnight
do you believe women cant or dont protect other women?
they all need a man to save them?
I do, but my reasoning was 'this is something boys should especially do, so this counts triple for me'.
what are your thoughts on JK Rowling?
Supporting an anti-feminist who wants to legalize sexual harassment and unethical work behavior put her lower in my book than when she wrote antisemitical stereotypes in her children's books.
@WineIsMyCarb
Hi OP.
What is a man?
What is a woman?
Thanks
They're personal identities that we usually have social expectations towards.
@ThistlyPerf
Most trans activists seem to wilfully be unable to grasp the concept that women’s concerns are not anti-trans. Self ID allows the system and women’s hard fought sex based rights to be abused.
If these practices take place and have taken place regardless of trans people's rights, trans people being denied proper access will not change them. Self ID in the legal sense allows a persons birth certificate to be altered, something that isn't needed to update your passport in the UK, so if this is such a dire issue, we should already be seeing thousands of men changing their passport to female to enter women's spaces (more so because most legal practices require extent of ID or passport, not birth certificate).
@Cwenthryth
Pretty sure that women don’t forget they’ve had a hysterectomy
No, but some had them due to medical incidents, birth defects, prior cancer, etcetera.
Did you consult advocacy groups for cervical cancer, such as Jo’s Trust or Eve Appeal, on this change? How this will affect women who don’t have English as a first language or learning difficulties for example who may not be able to access a tick box form using medical language? Smear tests are about saving lives, cancer doesn’t care about your feelings.
The GP ticks the box. As it's a personal opt out, not a requested opt in (unless the person is a man with a uterus), nothing changes for most women.
@Xiaoxiong
It's not a rare transwoman that poses the threat. The fact that they are trans is not the safeguarding issues. It's opening up women's prisons, shelters, spaces to MEN as a class that is a safeguarding issue. My lovely transwoman friend wouldn't hurt a fly, I've known her for over a decade but if she is allowed into a female only rape shelter then so can any man who says he identifies as a woman. Any repetition of the magical incantation that "transwomen are women" opens that gate to any man, anytime, anywhere. That's how you get the Karen Whites of this world.
I do not believe all women should be banned from tending to children because I know abusive mothers.
I also don't believe you think your friend should go to a male prison if she were arrested (perhaps on false charges), purely because Karen White exists. These cases should be seen and treated individually, as with all inmates (though I prefer no prisons to begin with, as the system upholding them is bigoted, but that is a wholly different topic I don't feel comfortable discussing with a likely mostly white crowd), not that all trans women have to go to men's prisons.
@Chosennone
So... you were a biological woman who didn't 'feel' like a woman so transitioned to become a man but want to join a drag group that parodies women!?
I 'was' not a biological woman, I am a trans man. I also don't parody women, unless you feel that a dress is pertinent to being a woman.
@DodoPatrol
*‘Sharing with a rare transwoman’? Do you mean you think that girls shouldn’t mind this as long as it’s only occasionally?
What would you say to the girls at my child’s school, then, who would be sharing with a mtf child every day, not ‘rarely’?
One (that I know of; there may be others) has previously been raped and is horrified at the thought of encountering a male student In supposed female-only facilities.*
Rare or daily makes no different. A woman also can't be a 'male student', thus any woman, trans or not, is never going to be a male student in the bathroom.
A persons' rape should never be used as the reason to exclude the whole of a minority group. It should never be used as a weapon at all.
@fuckitywhy
What does it mean to be a man to you?
Self identity, purely. I am a man and per that self identity I enjoy having others treat me as such, too. I'm sure you understand constantly treating a woman as a man or vice versa can be traumatizing.
@WendyMoiraAngelaDarling
So you now consider you are amanwho likes to dress as a woman sometimes and feel that you must put the label of "drag" onto that preference?
Oh, no, there's a significant difference between doing drag and wearing a dress. The latter involves some fabric, the first involves art.
@MoltoAgitato
So if transitioning is now an option, where are all the middle aged women rushing to transition to men? If nothing else for the immediate pay rise?
If there's an immediate pay rise I've yet to see it. And there's significantly more trans men transitioning later in life, but many feel they can't any more because of their stance in the family and the hardships associated with it.
And why don’t you think your history of mental illness has anything to do with transitioning?
Because my 'history of mental illness' was completely unaffected by treatment of said illnesses yet vanished on transitioning.
@Branleuse
Are gay men usually ok with you not having a cock?
Some are, some aren't. Some seek me out and try to get me to engage because of it. I'm not interested in one night stands so they usually droop off.
@SylvanianFrenemies
What is a man? What is a woman? What words should we use to distinguish between the two biological sex classes? Should universities be censured for saying that XX is female?
There's so much distinction and overlap that no description includes all men or all women. Not all people born with a vagina who give birth have XX chromosomes, not all people with testes and XY chromosomes are men or ever seen as men. Stick with your 3rd grade biology definitions by all means, it's places that matter in others' lives that need to realize that the distinction is more of a grey area.
One of my daughters has a lot of stereotypically male interests. Sometimes she says "Is it ok for me to like this, it's a boy thing?" I usually respond "you can like what you like. There are no toys just for boys". Am I wrong?
There are no toys or behaviour for boys or girls, no, that's correct. If she consistently (over years) initiates being a boy or desire to transition it might be more an idea to pay attention for possibly being trans.