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@midgebabe
you still have not explained the positive of being a transman rather than a woman
And I won't be able to. There's no objective 'better' between being a trans man instead of a woman. It's personal experience. For me it was worse to live as a woman because I was living a lie that I no longer live now that others see me as myself.
I believe there is factual evidence that supports the fear that women have of transwomen. There is evidence that transwomen commit offences at the same rate as men. We can consider both data from the uk jail system and a recent study by some Swedish authors as evidence of this. Therefore if a fear of men in certain spaces is justified, a fear of transwomen is similarly justified.
That evidence is garnered by a prejudiced system that also would insist people of colour are significantly more likely to commit crimes.
@SylvanianFrenemies
In response to "Given there's no factual evidence supporting that fear, no", what would you say to the women assaulted by Karen White in prison? Was it wrong for a woman like Karen to be transferred back to the make prison estate?
Karen was a high-risk convict who was placed into women's prison with zero regards for the regulations surrounding high risk convicts. The flaws in her holding were due to the prison wards' negligence, not the responsibility of trans women. I wouldn't have condoned her actions less or worse if the convict doing so was a natal woman.
@DodoPatrol
*The girls at my child’s school are not ‘misdirected’ and have not been sharing for years. There is now a late teenage male student in their year who now identifies as a girl. You say that he should be using the facilities ‘of that gender’.
But nothing has changed about this student except the name, and that was only a few weeks ago. Why should the girls now be comfortable sharing with him, if I’m interpreting your views correctly, and the boys not?
Would you have expected the girls to be happy to have this student share their loos pre- name change and why?*
Why should anything about her change? Would she have to wear dresses, suddenly, so they could argue she's stereotyping women? Would she have to use hormones, suddenly, so they could argue trans children are forced on hormones so soon? Would she have to have surgery, which would cause more outrage? What does her changing her name change about her?
I'm not responsible for someone's comfort or discomfort. They're feelings that don't trump people's rights.
@MoltoAgitato
Also, have you addressed that self id opens the door wide for predatory males and dismantles safeguarding for women?
It doesn't. Self ID allows a person to change their birth certificate, which is not needed to update a passport, it's an administrative update. If a man wants to go through that hassle to enter the women's bathroom solely so he can receive the same conviction as without, he's a fool, because no one would check his birth certificate and he's able to do the same at current.
I need to head back to work, so I'll resume responding later. Posting this already so I don't lose it a second time.