Special trans taxi services to keep them safe

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Hey BBC, where's our front-page promoted article and video interview about all the things women have done for and by each other, for centuries, to stay safe in public? No?

The "look at poor ickle us suffering from these things nobody has ever had to worry about before" is so infuriating. We have been living this shit forever.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-49516092/the-taxi-service-trying-to-keep-trans-people-safe

Its only been 10 minutes

I’ll leave it a wee while longer

Just catching up, this has been fun hasn’t it
Something about Karks posts makes my skin crawl (no offence intended just an observation).
Oh and a taxi service for trans people in New York is not a newsworthy article for the BBC as it’s unclear why a subset of biological males needs such extreme protection from their own class - suggest transwomen extend their energies teaching other men about tolerance and the BBC use their time to investigate why the NSPCC is so supportive of staff waking off in their loos.

Does the risk of dying in a plane crash mean that women can't have their own boundaries? That's a new one.

Apparently. I bet the horrible murder of James Bulger by two 10 year olds means it's pointless and wrong to give adults DBS checks for working with children too.

It's not for protection from men. It's for protection from people who have such negative views towards them. If I was trans, I wouldn't want to be in a taxi with you driving.

This is what we have been asking for, all along.

Yes. Notwithstanding the increasingly desperate attempts here to claim otherwise.

kark is flailing a bit now, I think.

Oh no, I've got quite a strong stomach for the prejudices on MN. Don't you worry.

I just don't get what the point of all these non-points is? What are you hoping to achieve?

What are you hoping to achieve?

Well i think ive left it enough

So no one has said they have had a problem

Awesome

Apparently. I bet the horrible murder of James Bulger by two 10 year olds means it's pointless and wrong to give adults DBS checks for working with children too.

This is exactly the same logic as yours kark. Do you agree with it? Are DBS checks and safeguarding pointless and wrong?

OP: Starts thread belittling trans people for wanting a service to feel safe

PP: I don't think anyone has a problem with trans people wanting a service to feel safe

Hmmmm

For some reason this has come to mind.

"Why do menen^ feelel^ threatened by womenen^?" I asked a male friend of mine. ... "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more moneyy^ and powerr^." "They're afraid women will laughgh^ at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetryy^ seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraidid^ of being killeded^," they said.

I'm more inclined to think trans people have set up this taxi service because of the threat of Male violence tbh.

Completely irrelevant, but how would DBS checks prevent a ten year old from becoming a murderer? You know they aren't checking the ten year olds, right?

But will you know what people's views are? Unless you're seriously suggesting we start policing people's thoughts .

What are you hoping to achieve?

I asked first, no? I'm just passing the time in an online community I feel an affinity to, talking about a subject I have a personal interest in. I'm commenting on topical media articles. You? Why do you hang around somewhere that makes you angry, putting forward such deeply unconvincing arguments?

Personally I don't give a crap what a taxi driver thinks. All I care about is that they get me home.

That c&p formatted weirdly.

Completely irrelevant, but how would DBS checks prevent a ten year old from becoming a murderer? You know they aren't checking the ten year olds, right?

Yes your point is completely irrelevant. Well done. But it's helped me to see where your blind spot is I think. Thank you

Well, an easy way to avoid people who are transphobic is to use services specifically for trans people. Then you don't need the thought police.

I personally think it's dreadful that they have to use something like that and I wish they felt comfortable to just use a taxi like I could - as a woman. But they don't necessarily have the privilege of passing for a woman and not drawing unfriendly attention to themselves. Which is really sad.

I asked really nicely if anyone had seen anyone saying they had a problem

Fucking tumble weed was what i got

And now one person has an issue

Not bad

It's not for protection from men. It's for protection from people who have such negative views towards them. If I was trans, I wouldn't want to be in a taxi with you driving.

Ah yes. Men need a dedicated service because someone might disagree with them. Women, on the other hand...

Why don't they do DBS checks on 10 year olds before they let them play with other children, I wonder? But do do them on adults who specifically choose to work with children? Can't imagine...

Wow, fucking straw everywhere in here this evening.

I'm not in the least bit angry. I'm here for the same reason you are. I just happen to not agree with you.