I welcome trans women in female spaces. For all intents and purposes they are women and should be treated as such. I believe i have been sharing these spaces for years with transwomen who just want to get on quietly with their lives and need the spaces to avoid male violence and sexual aggression, just like me.
The difficulty as I see it lies not with the fact that ‘woman ’ is being redifined so much as ‘transwomen’ has been expanded. We used to understand transwomen to have had a life long struggle to change their body and live as a woman. Ashamed of their male body, they rejected their penis and were socialised as women, undertaking painful and expensive surgery to transition.
Now we just have transvestites, blokes that like to put on women’s clothes, drag queens and mysoginits called Dave who fancy being Brenda on some days telling us to accept their lady dicks or die choking on it. It minimises what real transwomen suffer and has created fear and mistrust where there was none previously. The TRA’s have ruined everything, not helped genuine transwomen.
The self id thing removes all gate keeping. Now men can just SAY they are women. End of.
Transwomen need our protection. I welcome them in my space because I accept them as women.
However REAL transwomen do NOT want us to accept their penis, hell, THEY don’t accept their penis. By watering down what it means to be a woman to include male bodies you put them at risk. Real transwomen want to come into our spaces because like us, they want privacy and safety from men when they are most vulnerable.
Transwomen don’t rape women.
Transwomen don’t want us to accept their dicks.
Transwomen do not hate women.
Transwomen don’t identify as male on alternate days of the week.
If they do any of the above they are men and putting on a dress doesn’t change that. Self I.d is wrong on every level.