How have you been affected by the Tran's community?

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As there are so many posts on here that discuss Transgenderism, has anyone been directly affected by the Tran's community, good or bad?
I'm quite young and only know one Tran's gender person, as far as I'm aware.

Come on. 99% of those convicted of sexual assault are male and 98% of those subject to rape are female. It's incredibly clear cut that men - including those with a trans identity - are much more dangerous to women than other women are.

Only minimally directly affected- several trans identified men came to a community group I am part of and used the women’s toilets, etc. it stopped me feeling safe there and I have to accompany my daughters to the bathroom.

but I don’t have to be directly affected to care about other women who have been affected. What happened to the two little girls sexually assaulted by “Katie” Dolotowski was horrific. We don’t need to experience it personally to oppose it.

of course not all trans people are necessarily violent or sex offenders. But the presence of men (trans if or not) in womens spaces violates our right to privacy and dignity.

Example? All I’m seeing is threats, compelled speech and thoughts. No debate. No examples. And it’s not from the side that believes in biological/sex reality.

All that’s happened is that sex class, which has been a victim of the patriarchy and fought for years and years for their rights has had this sex class recognised in law and the TWAW shouters (which they are not, it’s perfectly fine to be a trans woman) are behaving like they’ve called for trans genocide.

I feel so sorry for the trans people whom recognise that no, they aren’t men/women but have chosen to present themselves in a way that’s authentic to them without discrimination (still protected in law) and these activists are making life harder for them.

My post was in response to someone who said the ruling is pure bigotry

No impact whatsoever.
However, I can't believe how far this went and how much cost to individuals and financially to declare the bloody obvious.
Saying that I wish no ill will to any transgender person. Live and let live.

When an aversion to sharing spaces with a group of people is based on well evidenced risk, it's not prejudice, it's common sense. Are we prejudiced if we don't let sex offenders work in schools? Are we prejudiced if we don't let men share dorms with girls on guide camps? Not wanting to share toilets with men isn't borne of prejudice.

It’s always either hooker or librarian…

Yes, I’ve been bumped down in my finishing position at my local park run by a man racing as a woman.

And a women only Campervan group I’m part of now has men turning up to meet ups.

only in incredibly positive ways. some of my best friends are trans, they’re brilliant people but that doesn’t hinge on them being trans or not. it’s absolutely horrific to see this country turn on them like this

Yes, I was hounded out of my job.

By ‘trans allies’ and TRAs.

For pushing through service delivery in line with user consultation and demand, and the law.

In discussion it became clear that whilst I have no anti feelings against anyone for being Trans and was also protecting the rights of Trans users, I am of the opinion that sex is sex and gender is gender and they can be different. And that sex, unlike gender, is binary and immutable.

A campaign of open and stealth malice, abused online, trumped up grievances to the Board, blah blah.

I also have a very vulnerable family member who is trans and causes no bother to anyone.

The terms of yesterday’s ruling apply to specific circumstances when the Equality Act is applicable to women as a sex. Which seems fair enough. Let’s support the trans people in our lives to live without fear and where the Equality Act continues to protect them.

Neither. Are you really so incapable of believing someone has a different opinion and viewpoint to you?

You're right - belief that men can be women is an article of faith. We who don't share your religion will never be persuaded that you're correct and we aren't.

And what percentage were trans women assaulting women?

Medical research has traditionally assumed men to be the norm (for multiple reasons including because more men have been included in clinical trials). Just as we started to talk about this, the quality of data collection on sex has become almost meaningless because it is very difficult to know if people are reporting their sex or their gender.

So all women continue to be indirectly discriminated against by the lack of quality medical research into impact of sex on medical treatments.

Trans women are men.

You can always tell a trans identified female, bearded or not. But most of us do them the courtesy of going along with their gender identity, as they are not a threat.

I'd say it's affected me.

It's consumed my MN timeline.
It takes up my news space.
I've had to repeatedly get my head around the ongoing changing guidance for schools and ensure it's enacted.
I've had a friend buy me a drink from the profits of his latest book on transgender.
I've had one of my daughters good friends ghost her because she used the wrong pronoun.
I've had to tolerate mixed sex toilets.
I've got very very very cross about how county council paperwork now asks what gender 3 year olds identify with and what pronouns they prefer used.
I've had 4 friends deal with their child deciding they're trans... Talked things out with them... Only for the child to decide 1-6 months later they weren't trans.

So whilst I haven't had any direct trans acquaintances, the subject sure has taken up a lot of my headspace.

There are certain bars in Manchester city centre that our group of friends stopped going to because the ladies toilets always had very tall, loud and intimidating men in drag using them. Whether they were trans or drag queens not sure but we decided to drink elsewhere.

my children are late teens.

The fact that you see it as a religion says it all really.

For goodness sake. Do you understand anything about the court ruling??
No one has turned on them. The law has been clarified. They should only ever have been in spaces reserved for their biological sex.

Nobody is turning on anyone. Existing laws (that have been in place for years) have been clarified so there is less confusion and fewer court cases.

Transgender people are still protected by the Equality Act, and all the other laws we have, just as they were last week

Of all the things that didn’t happen. . .

Men who identify as women have the same rate of violent and sexual offending as other men.

I haven't been affected at all