This is a comment under the article, it’s made me feel so angry. It’s is in response to someone saying they don’t want their teenage daughter having to share a changing room with a man.
‘Yes, by all means, let's take the most extreme example and generalise it. Nothing intolerant about that at all.
If a teenage girl feels threatened in any situation, be it in a changing room with an untransitioned trans woman as you suggest, or with a rude and aggressive older cis woman in the same washroom, or maybe just in the home of a drunken relative, I would hope she has access to help and escape.
That we're expected to equate this hypothetical untransitioned trans-woman with an actual threat is, I believe, the real problem with this debate. An equivalency is suggested that is simply unfair and cruel.
Notice I did not assume the drunken relative was an actual threat. Most drunken relatives the vast majority of drunken relatives, I suggest are a threat to no-one but themselves. So, do we demand that drunken relatives must be removed immediately from young women's presence? No, we don't. We assume they're going to be just fine around sloppy Uncle Bert, and if they feel they're not that they'll find help.
By the by, my guess is a teenage girl is going to run into sloppy Uncle Bert or that aggressive cis lady far more often than an untransitioned trans woman.’
Just so offensive in every way!