Unsurprisingly, the anti-trans lobby are reliant on emotional appeals instead of actually looking at the facts of the situation.
Pot kettle black.
Trans woman have been accessing spaces designed to support vulnerable women for years, and this includes rape crisis centres and domestic abuse shelters. So why does the anti-trans lobby insist on pretending this is a new phenomenon?
Women wanting to protect our sex based rights aren't anti-trans, and we're not suggesting it's new either.This is a bullshit argument.
It’s like you’ve all woken up to the fight you think you’re having a decade too late. People have been entitled to use the bathrooms / changing rooms etc of the gender the identify as since the 2010 equality act, and they’ve never had to prove they’ve legally changed gender to be able to do so.
About the only reasonable point you have made in this thread. Lots of us did wake up to this far too late. Although doubtless the likes of you would've been gaslighting the shit out of us whenever we'd done it.
Now let’s look at the real facts about rape, shall we?
90% of rapes are committed by rapists who are known to the victim before the rape occurs. Not by scary trans women hiding in bathrooms. By husbands, boyfriends and friends known to the victim.
Ah, so we don't need to worry about policies that make it much easier for those males who want to assault and perv on women unknown to them then? Righty ho. Totally logical argument there.
Incidentally, if you're a woman in a prison and a bepenised person claiming to be a woman assaults you, odds are that would fall into the category of known rapists.
If you really cared about protecting women from rape you would be vociferous about the 90% of them that are acquaintance rapes. You wouldn’t be focusing on the infinitesimally tiny fraction of the remaining 10% that are committed by trans women, and you wouldn’t be inventing the outright lie that women are in more danger of being raped as a result of trans rights. The only reason you’re pretending that they are is because this isn’t about rape at all, or even about women’s rights - it’s about your desperate attempts to find a justification for your bigotry.
This is another foolish argument. Talking about the dangers that self ID poses to biological women doesn't say anything about what a woman might be doing to address other threats to women. This is how women like Julie Bindel have done more to protect women than pretty much any handmaiden transactivist koolaid quasher, and are able to have a record like this whilst also upholding our sex based rights in respect of allowing penis people access. Because it's two sides of the same coin.
I’m leaving this thread now because it doesn’t do my mental health any good to fight with trolls, liars and manipulators. But I want you to know that I’m not fooled for a second by your attempts to hide your prejudice behind concern for women, and I am disgusted that you would use and manipulate the experiences of rape victims in this way. It’s a serious indictment of your character that you are willing to do so.
I hope you do leave, as your contributions have been as grotesque as they are hypocritical. But for the benefit of others reading, let's summarise. You are trying to use the fact that most rapes are perpetrated by people the victim knows to try and downplay a clear and massive risk, because it goes against your belief system. You are literally using rape to try and make a political point, one that gaslights us and makes us all less safe. This could hardly be more disgusting.