But I am sick of every day seeing a new thread pop up on MN and the same lazy, pearl-clutching, dishonest, disingenuous arguments being thrown around by women who can't see that extending rights to others doesn't mean losing your own
Do you know when women first started to get their own spaces? Why they needed them?
Right now a woman has the right to know that when she goes swimming/gym she will be able to change out of the sight of men. Can you not see how that could be very important to some minorities or traumatised women?
Right now, if a woman has been raped or abused she has the right to seek shelter in a refuge, a place to be away from men and recover. Think this will remain? See ‘Danielle’ Muscato.
Up until recently young girls had the opportunity to join the girl guides and by all accounts found it extremely freeing to be able to be themselves without boys looking on. They thrived, were able to talk through different issues that affected girls freely with older female leaders and their peers (periods etc)
Now? Now the girl guides has changed their policy. Not only can anyone with a penis now join if they ‘identify’ as a woman, the organisers of overnight trips etc. Cannot even tell parents if their daughter will be sharing sleeping space with a man/boy.
Can you not think of any vulnerable/traumatised groups of girls this may affect?
I am so sick of the brain dead mantra of ‘transwomen are women’ No I’m bloody not! I am a gay transsexual, biologically a man despite extensive surgery to try to ease my diagnosed mental disorder.
I would NEVER try to gain access to women’s or little girls spaces.
I would NEVER demand that women give way or feel threatened just to validate something that even I know is not real.
I would NEVER think it was fair for me to pit my superior physical strength and musculoskeletal structure against a woman in, say, a boxing match. Or Australian football. Or weight lifting.
I would never claim that I am I fact a literal woman. I no longer have a penis, but if I did, and was like these straight middle aged men who seem to love having theirs, I wouldn’t be demanding that lesbians suck my ‘lady dick’ and call them bigots for refusing.
And if you want to know the type of people who are demanding this then search #transgirls on Twitter. THAT is who is trying to acces vulnerable women and children.
Something dark, insidious and hateful is hiding behind ‘Trutrans’ people. They want debate to be silenced because just the slightest bit of sunlight shows their ideology up for the misogynistic claptrap it is.
I have signed. Everyone in my trans support group will sign.