Yes, we can see that from your post.
Did you stop to think that there is already laws around rape and sexual abuse? The issue of course, is huge and it needs attention. However, you are here scolding people that they are not focusing on the issues that you, personally, want to see resolved. We see this all the time.
I will ask you the question that I ask others, when would have been the right time in your view? And how many women and children were acceptable to be harmed due to poor policy sold in by organisations such as Stonewall? And by that, I mean in addition to the huge number of raped and assaulted women and children that are actually covered by laws and policy .
And to be clear I refer to the rape, voyeurism, drink spiking, trafficking. All horrific crimes.
And yet, you keep dismissing the issue as 'just a small group', and even 'genuine trans people' (who are they? The only concept that ties all people with transgender identities together is their philosophical belief. So who are these genuine trans people?). Yet campaigning for this 'just a small group' have created very poor safeguarding policies and protocols that are very far reaching.
Imagine, that if a female person needed to escape to a women's refuge to heal, they may have to share with a male person. We have already heard testimony from those female people in the UK where one had to endure a male wanking in the next bed in a shared room in a refuge and others had to deal with males who demanded special treatment while there and abused women for not using correct language.
Imagine that a female person seeks help from a rape crisis centre, as Sarah Summers did and is taking them to court, and not being offerred female only rape support groups. She had to deal with male people in the group. We also know the trauma being caused with male prisoners being in female prison estates.There are many posts on MN about female people having issues in communal changing rooms.
Then there was the bench book which demanded that female people had to call their rapists, she/her and talk about 'her penis'. And there were female prisoners who got extra jail time because they called a male person with a transgender identity 'he' and 'a man'.
You talk about about boundaries, yet don't seem to acknowledge that boundaries are erased as soon as a child or an adult is told that they must accept male people into female single sex spaces, and that a person of one sex is to be treated as the other sex. All based on their philosophical belief. That is the removal of boundaries.
Yes, we understand that male people will still enter spaces they should not be in. No fucking kidding. What laws are there that people 100% comply with, yet you are telling us that because these crimes will still happen that we should not have been closing up the safeguarding loopholes and demanding clarity in the law Because you perceive the issue to be a minor one, to be dismissed as 'just a few' and 'genuine trans people'.
But at least now there is clarity and those harmful policies that were shaped by Stonewall and others need to be reversed.
You might not have intended your post to be shaming or you might not have realised you are using tired old tactics from extreme trans rights activists in repeating their sound bites that are thought terminating and about causing distraction, but you did just that.
So, according to you, when would have been an acceptable time for feminists to work for clarifying the law? In 10 years? 20 years? Do you see the rape crimes, spiking, voyeurism etc ever letting up?
But instead you feel that feminists and women's rights campaigners should ignore what was happening and focus on the issues that you feel were the only ones they should be addressing. Ignoring that they were addressing them as well. That is shaming.