To be sick and tired of women's concerns being silenced?

[MerchantofVenice]

Obviously I wouldn't dream of doing a TAAT.

But is anyone else as furious as I am that every time people try to raise legitimate concerns about the legislation about self-identity and transgender people, the whole discussion is shut down?

There's this undertone of 'Oh, you can't say that!!!' when people state scientific facts.

And at the same time, there's this myth that 'MN is one of the only places you can actually discuss the transgender debate openly.' Like fuck it is.

Your average person on the street isn't intimately acquainted with the madness of the debate and will have no qualms about stating facts. You see it on the comments after those nonsense news articles ("Man gives birth"). When you explain the situation to novices (as I did to my husband) they are gobsmacked. They had no idea that it was somehow a hate crime to be literate in biology.

And that's part of the problem; this hushing up colludes with the idea that people are saying something controversial. The debate stays secret and the tide of common sense never comes.

So sick of it.

[ABlokeCalledSarah]

Have you ever considered the opposite viewpoint, such as the danger a trans woman may be in if forced to use the male toilets or changing rooms?

As a transwoman who has only ever used the male toilets and has never had any problems with this, I'm calling BS on this so-called danger.

[ABlokeCalledSarah]

I've had hormones but I don't 'pass'. I am clearly a bloke undergoing gender reassignment but nope, still never been assaulted or abused in the male toilets.

[muezza56]

just looked up on sexual abuse inside womens prisons in the uk. and yes it's true, that women do suffer sexual abuse, not normally by other women, rarely by transwomen (apart from one unconfirmed incident), but most by male guards....