You're missing the point. Any male who says he is transwoman IS transwoman. They can't be questioned. And, he was emboldened to enter because he knew all he had to do was claim to be transwoman.
You don’t know what emboldened him. He’s a sex offender who went into a female toilet presenting as a man filming women. Then claiming to be a trans women had no effect. It is not a plausible strategy to evade justice. You’re trying to blame trans people for this man’s actions. He may have said he was a trans woman but he was not believed. So no, any male who says he is a ‘transwoman’ clearly isn’t.
When women are PUNISHED for calling a man out, that is self-ID. Whether you want to admit it or not. When Labour say TWAW, they are saying they support self ID. Pure, plain and simple. And like most feminists, I am left wing.
There is a difference between self ID as a legal policy and what you’re describing which practically amounts to wanting to be able to challenge every single trans person. Legally some trans women are women.
Interesting though you feel the need to assume I am a right wing voter.
Apologies I can see you haven’t written about voting. I was responding in the context of op setting the premise of the thread that is if you support women’s rights you should vote Tory. Again apologies.
Everywhere. In many countries.
What men saying they are men just to get access to female spaces? The examples are very very few. Just because JK Rowling tweets one example to millions of people doesn’t make it actually happening everywhere in many countries.
Yes, it is, the risk of men in our spaces is a daily risk. It's a risk I, as a rape survivor, weigh up every single day. As do Domestic Violence survivors. We think about it every.single.day.
Sorry that happened to you.
Yes many of us are wary of men every day. Coming across trans women in female spaces is still quite rare and the likelihood of being attacked by a trans woman in these spaces is extremely rare/ unlikely. I can see why most voters don’t think this is a major election issue.
He was originally in a female prison (and it doesn't matter that he was 'segregated').
Yes, under a Conservative UK government and an SNP Scottish government. Now in a male prison. Not sure what that proves either way really. Probably what anyone wants it to.
WRONG! See the swimming centre example, also Planet Fitness, etc etc.
Leaving aside that’s actually 2 examples, there is a difference between men who are not transitioning trying to access female spaces and trans women going about their business and using some female spaces. Trans women using female toilets and changing rooms are not doing anything illegal or wrong. (Personally I do think for changing rooms where people are undressing then should be post op or individual space).
Transwomen are MEN.
No they are not. Protected belief.
92% of them retain their penis and testicles.
Where do you get that statistic from?
They are men, with cock and balls... only in a dress, instead of a suit and tie. Minding their business or not, they are still men accessing womens spaces. And, as you prove, we cannot all them out or remove them.
Many of them are not. The EHRC have stated in the UK that people should not be challenging other people’s gender. That doesn’t mean that a man, clearly not transitioning, presenting as a man cannot be challenged or removed from a female space. It also doesn’t mean that if someone, even a genuine trans woman, is misbehaving or offending then they can’t be challenged or dealt with. This is common sense for most people.
No there haven't been. Because almost none of them actually transition and they always stand out, and we women could back then, call them out. And regardless, even if they wre there 'for decades' (which is a lie), that doesn't make it right. The 'they were always there' is not the defensive supporting argument or justification you think it is.
Seriously what toilets do you think transsexuals have been using for the last 50 years?
You might not accept that there is a process of medical and surgical transition, but there is. Some people transition socially and change some of their physical sex characteristics. In UK law the protected characteristic of gender reassignment is defined as transitioning from one sex to the other or ‘changing physiological or other attributes of sex’. Regardless of whether you believe it is possible to do this or not.
I can assure you it IS a problem to the RAPE VICTIM or BATTERED WOMAN who comes across them, even if the ingratiating person that runs the place says it isn't. There have been 4 different rapes by transwomen in 4 (four) separate battered womens hostels in Canada (yes I know, not UK but transwomen have dangerously higher patterns of sexually offending universally) alone. How many would be enough for you? Give us a number where you would think excluding these men are justified
Sorry I don’t think all trans people should be punished or be denied transitioned sex-based rights because some men have committed heinous crimes.
Many sex offenders in prison identified as trans after getting caught. I don’t think this means that medically diagnosed and treated trans women are a significant risk to the female population no.
‘How many would be enough?’ clearly ideally there would be none. We should reduce the maximum speed of motorways to 40 because less people would be killed in RTAs so how many deaths would be acceptable for you not to do this? That kind of argument is usually not suitable for setting policy or law.