@GeorgiaPass
Hi Datun,
I understand your response absolutely and thank you for sharing I appreciate hearing from others.
My views were not to express this however, I am fully aware of the threats to women (I am assigned female at birth) and so, your explanations are correct of course, whether they should be is another issue because it's awful isn't it?
If you disagree with my use of the 'be kind' statement I apologise, just because I am speaking to women at the moment and therefore it does have connotations of the issues you have outlined - I wonder if you would view this differently were I talking to a different group that included men and non binary or gender non conforming people? I used the statement purely for the words themselves asking people to be understanding of the people at both sides of the original story. So I apologise again for any offence caused and want to say that I would never want to lift one group up by bringing down another
Thanks again
Hi Georgia
I'm not quite sure what you're saying? Are you asking me that I believe you should be telling other people to be kind? And in which case, asking for kindness is a good thing? And therefore it's hypocritical for me to object to it when you ask it of us?
Because the two opposing 'factions' in this situation are not symmetrical, not in the slightest.
A concept that does not acknowledge biological sex will disadvantage women, way more than men. Women are oppressed on the basis of their sex. Therefore being unable to acknowledge their sex matters far more to them than it does to men.
Just take the prison issue as an example.
Male rapists are being given access to incarcerated women as part of their sentence. The flip side of that exact situation is that the female inmates, 60% of whom will already have suffered domestic violence, are being forced into cells with male sex offenders, as part of their sentence.
Unsurprisingly the prison service do not allow women who identify as men to be housed in a male prison.
I'll leave it to you to decide why.
Men commit 98% of all sex offences. They commit 90% of violent offences. In fact almost all crimes are overwhelmingly committed by men.
There is no symmetry.
Women aren't even asking for kindness from men, frankly it's gone way beyond that. They are asking for basic humanity. Not to force women who have already been subject to violence at the hands of men, into prison cells with rapists.
Not to force women who have been raped and sexually abused by men, into pretending that their male counsellor is female, or else.
If you can't see sex, or if you think it's somehow assigned on the basis of feelings, you won't be able to see, articulate, or fight against, sexism.
Or in these cases, such rank misogyny that it's breathtaking.
Have you actually read everything that J. K. Rowling has said on this issue? Because she completely supports trans people and has trans friends. She just thinks that sex matters, too.
She says
I want to be very clear here: I know transition will be a solution for some gender dysphoric people, although I’m also aware through extensive research that studies have consistently shown that between 60-90% of gender dysphoric teens will grow out of their dysphoria. Again and again I’ve been told to ‘just meet some trans people.’ I have: in addition to a few younger people, who were all adorable, I happen to know a self-described transsexual woman who’s older than I am and wonderful. Although she’s open about her past as a gay man, I’ve always found it hard to think of her as anything other than a woman, and I believe (and certainly hope) she’s completely happy to have transitioned. Being older, though, she went through a long and rigorous process of evaluation, psychotherapy and staged transformation. The current explosion of trans activism is urging a removal of almost all the robust systems through which candidates for sex reassignment were once required to pass. A man who intends to have no surgery and take no hormones may now secure himself a Gender Recognition Certificate and be a woman in the sight of the law. Many people aren’t aware of this.
We’re living through the most misogynistic period I’ve experienced. Back in the 80s, I imagined that my future daughters, should I have any, would have it far better than I ever did, but between the backlash against feminism and a porn-saturated online culture, I believe things have got significantly worse for girls. Never have I seen women denigrated and dehumanised to the extent they are now. From the leader of the free world’s long history of sexual assault accusations and his proud boast of ‘grabbing them by the pussy’, to the incel (‘involuntarily celibate’) movement that rages against women who won’t give them sex, to the trans activists who declare that TERFs need punching and re-educating, men across the political spectrum seem to agree: women are asking for trouble. Everywhere, women are being told to shut up and sit down, or else.
I would urge you to read what she has actually written, in her own words. This item was written after she received threat after threat after threat. Together with being spammed with pornography on her Twitter line during her attempt to launch a children's painting competition.
www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/