"Them" and "us"
Yes, that is what this has turned into: people who want to destroy female-only spaces versus people who want to keep them.
"Tra's "agenda""
Which is to get rid of single sex spaces. Our agenda is to keep them. Both sides have an agenda, this is normal in any conflict.
A list of who is who in the tra world
All of which is collated from publically-available information. No one's addresses were published, nor phone numbers, nor email addresses. And none of us were going to do anything other than review it and look for patterns and links. We certain weren't going to:
- Publish names, addresses, email addresses, and Labour Party membership numbers in a Google Drive and then try to get those Labour members expelled from the party. Labour Against Women Transphobia did this.
- Contact employers to get anyone fired. Several TRAs have tried this.
- Cyber stalk people to find out what unrelated events they attend and threaten to picket them (e.g. a clothing swap organised by Venice Allan at which young children would be present).
Not accepting the suicide rate numbers
The one study, by Stonewall was poorly designed.
- The sample of people who filled it in were self-selecting, introducing selection bias.
- The presence or absence of comorbid mental illness, such as depression, was nor recorded and ao could not be controlled for. Comorbid depression is very common in trans teens, affecting 49% of transfeminine teens and 62% of transmasculine teens. Depression is a strong risk factor for suicide and we rightly worry that transition is mistaken for a "magic bullet" when the child needs comprehensive mental health care, a view shared by Tavistock clinicians but less popular with Mermaids.
Calling them "lady dicks"
This is worse than "girldick" how?
Using rape and abuse to illustrate the debate
I am not going to hunt for my earlier post, but basically a penis is a rape weapon and a vagina is an unpatchable security vulnerability. Avoiding rape committed by people who have rape weapons built into their bodies because we can get pregnant from that rape is actually pretty important to us, which is why we are so adamant about having female-only spaces. This has nothing to do with how valid your gender identity is and everything to do with how reproductive biology can be weaponised against female people by male people.
"A man cannot be a woman. Period"
When you show me the clinical evidence that a sperm producer can become an ova producer or vice-versa, I'll review that assertion that a man cannot be a woman.
OED and other dictionaries: woman (noun, countable): adult human female.
An adult human male cannot be an adult human female.
Using the stupid comments of a few dickheads to general
Those "few dickheads" would be allowed in our spaces under self-id and we regard them as a hazard to our safety. Many of those "few dickheads" are prominent trans activists and even hold office:
- Jess "flasher" Bradley, elected NUS Trans Officer so yes, he does represent trans people, who has advised the Women and Equalities Select Committee.
- Shon "enjoy your erasure" Faye.
- Jane "violent porn" Fae.
- Lily Madigan, who considers women's single-sex spaces to be transphobic despite being an elected Labour Women's Officer.
- Aimee "new terfblocker" Challenor who hired her dad as an election agent whilst said dad was under police investigation for child torture and rape, and advised Green Party trans policy.