Nothing will change though unless the sensible transgender people get involved. No one else will be listened to.
I would encourage people to follow @JustAngryBird on Twitter. She is a transgender and was one of the founders of TransOxford and wrote in response to protests at WPUK Oxford meeting, "tonight the bullied became the bullies"
full text in thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3234661-Condemnation-of-the-shameful-campaign-of-bullying-intimidation-against-WPUK-meeting-by-founder-of-TransOxford
Her recent long twitter thread and thoughts:
"Sex Wars and how to end them
What makes a woman?
We all know that biology makes a female of the species with a distinctly different reproductive system from that of a male. There’s no arguing about it. And women are adult female humans and they don’t have penises.
And even if any of them, by some freak whim of nature, have anything resembling one they won’t wear a loud t-shirt claiming it or wave the very thing, like a red rag, in front of the angered feminists.
For a number of reasons, first of which is that ‘women don’t have penises’. And women don’t like drawing attention to themselves for no good reason and it would be impolite and upset others. And it would be too much a male thing to do.
We know that women are raised differently from men. We can blame it on patriarchal sociocultural traditions, objective biological and physiological differences, and general unwillingness of many women (but by no means all) to be different from the others, to stand out from the crowd too much.
Female life experience, even in our modern western world where ‘women’s liberation’ has allegedly happened, is as distinctly different from that of a male, as their biology.
You cannot understand widely enough and in depth all the aspects and the nuances of the issues which worry women of all ages unless you have lived through it and are a mature experienced woman, not a young girl, let alone a teenage boy who has been identifying as a woman for few years and have recently started feminisation of his male body.
No one has an inherent understanding of these issues, they come either with life experience and relevant socialisation or many years of unbiased academic research.
Female body develops differently from that of a male and it takes many years of HRT to change any male body into anything resembling that of a female, which is why trans women athletes should either compete in a separate category of their own or only be allowed to compete in female contests after a sufficient number of years of feminisation (but it’s likely that by then they would retire)."
continues here: twitter.com/JustAngryBird/status/994143600144502784