If the arguments we make are so wrong, why do they invent ones that we don't hold and never would?
The mere fact they argue in such poor faith is telling.
Adolescence, for many, is dysphoria. Almost all outgrow that dysphoria. There are genuine questions on how we help the very small number who have a gender dysphoria that can't be assuaged without medical support, and social transition, and the vast majority who just need time, love and patience to grow up as whoever they are, in their perfect, and sexed, bodies.
Women have a right to spaces free of male bodies, because the owners of those bodies oppress us. No man has a right to say, "emotionally I feel like a woman, so I am entitled to access your naked or sleeping or vulnerable selves at will, and without your consent, and you are a hateful bigot if you object." Yet that is what we are being told. And all the gaslighting wankery words used to disguise that cannot alter this plain truth.
I have no animus at all for anyone trans. They, too, are struggling to live in a system of rigidly policed gender binaries. I don't want them to change a thing about their expression, or lives. Wear what they want, express as they want, seek happiness as it means to them. I support legislation that bans any discrimination on gender expression - how can I not? It's misogyny to demand women and men perform gender roles, after all. But on that basis, I also want it acknowledged that gender identity is not sex, and that women need and have fought for single sex spaces for very good reasons. A man can wear a dress, makeup, and heels, and enjoy expressing himself in the gendered way enforced on women, and that's great. But it does not actually make him female. It's insulting to pretend otherwise.
We are not a costume, or a collection of traits and mannerisms, and nor are men. We're all human individuals, with one of two sets of bodies. Those bodies generally mean women are physically smaller, and weaker. They also mean we possess reproductive capacities men never can, and most gender roles across all cultures, however those roles can and do vary, are there to ensure men can control that reproduction. To claim that a system designed to oppress us - gender -should justify the removal of the very provisions we have fought for, in order to mitigate against that oppression... just breathtaking. Of COURSE gender expression, and identity, should be open to anyone. Of course they should. What has that got to do with sex?
It makes no more sense to co-opt single sex provision, when you are of the dominant sex, than it would provisions for disability. It is not a provision for you. I will (as I have fought and will continue to fight for disability provision) fight with any trans folk who seek domestic abuse shelters, or third space unisex changing rooms, that can meet their needs. But can they please stop demanding to use those for a sex class to which they do not belong, provided because of the vulnerability of that sex class to the other? Especially when they belong to the dominant, and oppressor, group?
Sport is just ridiculous. And prisons and hospitals... we have actually seen women raped by these policies, and this person says WE are on the side of the Incels? Get a fucking grip.
None of this is that hard to understand. The misrepresentation of our standpoint has, at this stage, to be intentional. Gender critical women have no problem with trans folk. We have a problem with the suggestion that gender is so tied with sex, that anyone who cannot accept the gender roles and identity assigned to their sex is therefore in the wrong body. That is NUTS. Their body is fine - it's the policing of gender that's the problem! Switching genders is great. There is no need to wish you could switch bodies, to match.
How is this so hard for anyone to understand? Why is this so hard for anyone to understand?