Transphobic Christmas lights

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Can't believe more people aren't up in arms about the transphobic Harry Potter Oxford Street lights.

Apparently a mere 10,000 people have sent emails to London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan demanding that he ‘pull the plug on transphobia’ and cancel the themed lights.

The Good Law Project, who are always at the forefront of good sense and well-rounded thinking are quite rightly outraged that trans folk can't possibly feel Christmassy when inanimate twinkly Christmas lights are mocking their right to feel festive.

Down with this sort of thing.

Not sure you'd be happy to be harassed 1 in 10 times you go to the toilet.

Literally all of it is true.

Well, as a statistician you will be well aware of the saying “ lies, damn lies and statistics”. And speaking as a non statistician with a well developed instinct for deception, it is good to have that confirmed by one who has insider knowledge.

Reputable?!?! 😂😂😂😂

This is not whataboutery - you literally made the claim. All I'm asking for is whether you can back it up.

You think you are coming in with insights and knowledge but to me you are just someone parroting a line.

Because I've seen over the years it has become an article of faith that men who choose to present as their idea of a "woman" are at terrible risk in all male spaces, and furthermore that rather than this being something that suggests something has gone very wrong with men and should be dealt with, the attitude seems to be "meh, what can you do? Men will be men. Best we bundle the poor transwoman lads into the ladies instead. Oh - but only the ones who say they are women. Any other men who are sacred and vulnterable can just take their chances - we don't really care about their risks at all!"

And as you can see when it's all written down clearly, that story doesn't seem to actually add up at all.

So I'm asking you to think about this. To go beyond what you've been told is happening and find out whether what you have been told is really true.

And then realise that even if it is true, it's still not ok to turn women's spaces into male refuges. It's just the same old sexism that says women only get to exist for ourselves in the spaces men don't want to be. Anywhere else, and what the man wants comes first. Even if he likes to say he is a woman.

Lol at trans people only being around for the last 15 years! You are right, I did infer that because the conversation was around segregation from men rather than numbers of toilets.
Trans people have been using toilets without any problems at all for decades and had no need to fight for third spaces. The last 15 years or so has seen the rise of extreme transphobia and policing of spaces (driven in large part by JKR), which is what has bought the issue to the forefront.

No. It really isn't.

It really is.

You can pretend it isn't, just as you can pretend to be a statistician, but that doesn't make it true.

Wow. If it wasn't outing I would send you my name on my paper! What a cheek. I most definitely am a statistician thank you very much.

It really is.

I mean its part of UCLA. They're reputable right?

Um... I thought you said you were a statistician
Or do you just INDENTFY as one?

It's all getting a bit panto here 😂

😂

Oh no it's not!

Yawn. That's such a tired old thing that everybody says to statisticians. You think you are being clever but in reality we just smile and make a mental note note that you are probably not informed enough to bother continuing the conversation.

Lh no it isn’t, (he’s behind you)

I am a statistician, it's pretty rude to tell somebody they don't do the job they just told you they do? Why are you assuming that?

Ah, good old not-at-all-biased self reported US research again.

Are you sure you are a statistician? You don't see a slight concern with asking a self selected group "is the thing that you are using to make the case for somethign you really want actually happeing, or not?"

Any actual crime stats? Anything from the UK?

Also - Not sure you'd be happy to be harassed 1 in 10 times you go to the toilet - I am loving your statistical deduction that trans people only go to the khazi once a year!

Thoughts and prayers

Most of this is self selecting. It’s like asking foxes if they feel safer in the hen house or not being allowed access to the hen house.

Could be something to do with your analysis, 10% suddenly becomes 1 in 10 visits.

Is it as rude as a man telling a woman he is a woman too just like her because of how he feels, and if she still perceives his body as a man that's her problem not his cos he is coming in anyway?

Is 10% not 1 in 10? You might want to have a think about that. Also mocking somebody about being dyslexic (I'm not) is pretty ablist. You might want to think about that as well.

I’m well aware that gender nonconforming people have been around for a long time- I remember many of them from my youth, and I’m not young. And there have always been people who wished they were the opposite sex.

My post talked about the current ideology, ie the erroneous ideas that people can change sex, or indeed just say which sex they believe themselves to be, and everyone else being required to believe them and go along with it. Hence this is also the same time period in which people like JKR have pushed back and questioned the ideology (what you call ‘transphobia’).