Women can't have penises. It's a biological fact. As PP have said umpteen times, no matter how much a man wants to be a woman, or dresses like a woman, or says he's a woman, he just isn't one.
This thread has been in turn very enlightening, thought provoking and terrifying.
I had no idea there was a government consultation. Why has it not been publicised more?
www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reform-of-the-gender-recognition-act-2004
Everyone should respond to it. FPFW have produced a really helpful document to help with answering what they perceive to be the most important questions.
fairplayforwomen.com
Posters on here posed some very interesting questions:
Where were all these penised women when women were being oppressed and treated as second class citizens? They didn't join our fight for equality at any point. Instead they just want to take away what we have fought so hard to get. Yes - quite. Nowhere to be seen were they?
Try this analogy, a white person identifies himself as a black man, and puts brown make up on, and tries to dress in a cultural way to that race and tell people that they are a real black person. This would be insulting, offensive and unheard of right, many would be up in arms about it. He has no idea what it is like to be black, the struggles that many black people face, racism, black history and culture. Why is it ok to do this for women, and for women to just accept it, when black people would not be expected to? - I agree it just wouldn't be allowed.
It is worrying to learn from other posters that already the rights of women and girls to have female only spaces are being eroded. It is outrageous that men and boys can invade the sanctity of female changing rooms just by saying they identify as a woman/girl. As for the Girl Guides - words fail me.
And I found that website that someone linked to, where trans women with make up and false boobs were flaunting their erections quite disturbing.
I cannot believe this is what we are up against.How have we come to this?