Burgoo· Today 15:15
“What does the data show? Not what you have experienced or what friends have. But the actual number of times this happens in a year? You can only really judge whether an emotion is reasonable based on how realistic the threat is. If it is 1% that is one thing, if it is 80% that is another.”
Safeguarding is based on the extreme end of the bell curve. Going camping in the very far North on a school trip, how likely was it that that boy would be taken from his tent and eaten by a polar bear? But he was. Now the children would not be taken there at all, or else there would be guards with guns awake all night.
There are enough unpleasant instances to put it mildly.grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/this-never-happens
The really interesting statistic is why 0.5 % of the population ( men who believe they are women) take precedence over the wish for privacy and protection of 50% of the population, women?
Since the census statistics have been published it has been found, not only that it is not true that transwomen never commit sex crimes, or that their’s is the same offending rate as for all other men, but that they have about a 3% higher rate.
Almost all transwomen still have a penis, which imo is a good thing. No one should feel they must castrate themselves. But whether or not castrated, transwomen (biological men) should remain as group of their own under certain circumstances, with their own facilities for their own dignity and protection, ( or else arrest men for treating them badly), and women and girls should be allowed to retain their own category - for changing rooms, dormitories, prisons, rape crisis centres, refuges, certain sports, all women short lists.
Anyman could walk into a changing room, it is true. Any man could dress up as a woman and go into a changing room even when they are not transgender. But if no women is allowed to be on the alert and react, that is awful.
Just recently a transwoman flashed in a Nottingham Department store. The transwoman (biological male) was wearing a short black dress they lifted to reveal their stockings and suspenders and , And posted photos of themselves grinning- one with a back drop of bras in the underwear department, two others while having a cup of coffee, the fourth with sheets and bedding self on a special website for their flashing incursions. This wasn’t a changing room, but doesn’t it show a cavalier boldness on the part of a pervert due to all the cheering and enabling?
You say that as a man you are not turned on by watching people get changed. It doesn’t matter what you are like.
It is well known, especially abroad that some men are hiding cameras even in lavatories.
Also, some men who would like to be women get a charge and frisson from female frequented spaces and fetishise them. They post pictures of themselves aroused in such places.
Apart from anything it isn’t about your feelings as such, but how women feel if they see you. there as a man even if you, and most men, are innocent. To not see that is in itself a concern!
There are also religious women, and traumatised women, who would need to exclude themselves from a space where men could be; and also people affected by learning difficulties who need a predictable world and could be very frightened by seeing a man in a woman’s space.
If anyone has brought women having certain sex based spaces for themselves as racial segregation, that is disrespectful and racist. In countries where most people are black, women and men are allowed the dignity of their own facilities. The captured young girls stolen by Boko Haram were not in their all girls’ school because their parents were racists.