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Scenario: An MTF trans person enters a women's toilet, where a couple of school girls ask why the person is in the toilet as it is not the toilet appropriate for their sex. The MTF trans person then goes to the male toilets where they are confronted by some stereotypical thuggish men.
... The most physically threatening man bangs on the toilet door, yelling “what you doing in there? You freak!” No teenager, male or female, would want to align themselves with the views of these old past-it men who clearly represent ‘old-fashioned ignorance.’
I remember reading this. It was the first time a genuine thud of fear contracted in my chest.
The CPS. The bloody CPS. All reasonable, rational, kind and articulate on the telly. And all sneaky, deceitful, sexist and intimidating in real life.
And not just the utterly misogynistic scenario that yes, young girls and women should be responsible for protecting men from male violence. Practically ordering schoolgirls to shoulder this mantle.
But also the breathtaking assumption that women won't see that the violent, thuggish bullying man banging on the door of the toilet yelling what are you doing in there, you freak, can't, the very next day, have access to as many women as they like, by identifying as one.
The manipulation was frightening.
And, of bloody course, keeping this guidance secret is going to backfire spectacularly.
It's very worrying that they do not understand that the result of desperately trying to keep something secret is guaranteed to have everyone shining a spotlight on it.