I love to see a women’s and children’s rights thread ‘escape’ Feminist Chat. It blows away the constant narrative that MN is an echo chamber and that the wider population don’t care about this particular issue.
Many of the posters on this thread are not regular posters on the Feminist board (obviously there are some of us here). It also is the same when this style of question is asked generally when it is known that adult penises are involved. Every. Time.
Those who declare that the ‘younger’ generation have more acceptance of it now as they know transwomen and they are friends, I would have to as my ‘younger’ self as I was eager to please my friends. Facing the many realities of being a woman gradually made me aware of what others experienced and what I experienced. The miscarriages, the prams jammed in toilet doors, the flooding periods, the use of these facilities to escape unwanted attention, having to use the facilities because there isn’t a disabled loo to take my elderly mum (or the disabled loo is in with the other cubicles) and not being able to fit her, her wheelchair and me in the cubicle. There are so many issues without even taking into account the women who are victims of male abuse and violence who need to be away from males, and women’s religious needs.
Too often from other women, I see the throw away comments such as ‘religious women need to be re-educated that males can be ‘women’. Ahhh.. no. Sometimes these women are in fact not in a position to be ‘re-educated.
And I do see the remark occasionally ‘those abuse survivors need help to overcome their fears’. Thankfully not often. Usually there is just no acknowledgement that there is a need there at all. Or a ‘leveling up’ transwomen experience male violence as well!!! (Yes, but despite posters denying this on this thread, women can tell the difference)
The empathy and compassion seems to go only to one group. The group that is male.