Forkfun this issue, and experimenting on children are the hills I will die on. I swear to god. I am lucky enough not to ever have been assaulted, or raped, or even have had too many terrible experiences with men. I will fight to the fucking end to maintain the boundaries for ALL women.
I am sorry for anyone who has had to undergo invasive procedures for any reason. I’ve had them myself. It’s really shit to have to undergo a painful, invasive procedure, especially when you’re waiting to hear if there’s something terribly wrong.
But fucking hell. Can you not understand that having to undergo a painful, invasive procedure from a HCP of the opposite sex when you’re traumatised, against it for religious reasons or even if, yes even if, you just fucking said no you want a same sex HCP would be appalling?
The issue here is that if a woman asks for a same-sex HCP to perform a procedure they will now be considered a hateful bigot if someone of the opposite sex turns up identifying as the same sex. Not only this, they will be gaslit and bullied to accept the opposite-sex HCP as someone who actually is the same sex. To avoid any issues with clarity here, as there seem to be some very challenged thinkers;
Woman needs to have cervical screening, where a speculum is inserted into her and a scrape of cells taken for analysis
Woman requests a woman, just as she has always been entitled to do
A trans woman turns up. Again, for avoidance of doubt, trans women are born male and mostly retain their penises.
The woman is uncomfortable and confused, and repeats her request for a woman.
The trans woman throws a tantrum and tells the woman she ought to accept the procedure because the trans woman is exactly the same as her.
The NHS trust classes the woman patient as a bigot and god knows where it goes from there.
This scenario is bad enough. Now, if it becomes legal to self-id as the opposite sex, Dave the rapey sexual predator can just say his name is Davina and lo, hey presto! The NHS trust start booking him appointments to carry out cervical screenings. (Sigh. Yes. Obviously Dave/Davina would need to be qualified to do so). Yay! Dave/Davina now has access to unchaperoned, unclothed women. I need to make the point here that Dave the rapist is not necessarily trans. He may well just be a fucking rapey chancer who sees that the current self-ID debacle presents him with an opportunity to hurt someone.
Sexual predators always have and always will go to great lengths to access victims. Thank fucking Christ there are enough of us to make a noise about this. The level of idiot displayed by some posters takes my breath away. You do not get to set other people’s boundaries, nor do you have the right to trample them down in the name of Woke.
I fully expect this to be deleted but I am
SO fucked off by this gaslighting rapey bollocks that women should just budge over and be kind and fuck it don’t worry that Davina has his hand in your monkey noo vag because there’s no way he would go to all those lengths and anyway, resources. Argh.