"As a mother of a trans ftm son I am appalled by the trans phobia on the site"
I have yet to see anyone on this site saying anything about transmen. I do see however a lot of anger and resentment towards transwomen, ESPECIALLY those keeping their penis. The Gender Identity Research and Education Service (GIRES, a transgender lobby organisation) state - "Contrary to public perception the overwhelming majority of male-born transgender people retain their penis and are fully male-bodied".
Richard Garside, for the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, wrote; "Highly vulnerable, often traumatised, prisoners are the rule, not the exception, in women's prisons. Many have faced male sexual violence and exploitation.
Consider what it must be like for women who have experienced male violence to have males imprisoned alongside them.
While male prisoners asserting a female gender identity should not be sent to women's prisons, the Prison Service needs to give serious thought to transgender wings or other facilities where they can live out their identity in a more comfortable environment than is likely to be the case in a conventional male prison.
My concern about the current approach is that it is appears to privilege the subjective feelings of particular, largely male, prisoners, at the expense of the needs of those prisoners, largely women, who have to live with the decisions imposed upon them.
Not unreasonably, many feel that the needs and interests of female prisoners are being ignored or devalued"
This, obviously, is in regards to prisons, but can be applied to the many, many women and girls who have experienced violence and abuse at the hands on men. Why should abused women's feelings and needs be ignored? Why are their human rights to feel safe less important?
This doesn't even start on sports and how transgender women have a huge physical advantage over women and girls when competing. www.livescience.com/59289-why-men-run-faster-than-women.html , for those who need to see why male bodies have an advantage. Women's need and rights have always historically been superseded by those of men. What men want, goes. What men need, goes. There is, understandably, a huge amount of frustration and anger surrounding this.