I absolutely support transgender rights.
I absolutely think if a person was born male /female but has felt all their life that they are in the wrong body that that person has a right to medical treatment either physical or mental.
One of my children's close friends is transgender so I bear no prejudice.
I will absolutely stand up for trans rights.
I have no issue whatsoever with sharing a changing room with someone who has gone through full surgery.
What I have issue with is that SOME people who are standing out for the trans community are doing so against the rights of women and not alongside the rights of women as you would think given their very point is that trans women are women.
Those people who knock down those born as female. Some of the stuff I have seen written about women on social media by this community is awful.
If you are a trans woman and are therefore a woman then stand with us not against us, don't mock women's fears about wanting to be safe, don't dismiss their worries. Most women I know have suffered some kind of sexual harassment, abuse or heckling. Just as a trans person faces abuse so do birth females. Stand with us against that.
Absolutely call for changing rooms where you feel safe but don't call for changing rooms (curtained only ones) that make birth females feel unsafe instead.
If you want to use the women's changing rooms because using the male ones leaves you feeling unsafe trying on a dress I get that. Changing the changing rooms to fully mixed gender with just curtains not doors with all of the general population so the very people who harassed you in the male rooms are in the same place still I don't get.
I'm not scared of the trans community but those changes open changing rooms up to the entire male community and there are whole forums of male voyeurism on young women and Teen girls and news stories of issues.
I also feel that certain of them stir up a lot of shit for the trans community and trans people I know are often horrified. As is usual for any sector of society there are certain people that shout the loudest claiming to speak for others.
I do also have issue with someone deciding from day to day whether they are male or female as that is not what my experience of people who are transgender experience.
I have issues that someone in a male prison with a penis can decide they are female and be moved to a female prison despite the fact they committed sexual crimes against women.
There was a story on here about a trans male to female who hadn't had surgery in a bail hostel with women who was causing hell.
The prison service is leaving themselves wide open to being sued.
I however have no issue with a person who has gone through surgery being in a women's prison. If someone is genuinely transitioning then I support that being done safely too.