From blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/wp-content/uploads/sites/1606/2020/09/IADtransandnonbinarymicroaggressions.pdf
Posted by @ CatherinaJTV
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I have been reading it but haven’t finished it. In my opinion the start at least is written with more sensitivity and nuance than the equivalent information at Newcastle.
But looking at this phrase, for example -
“Some people express concerns that recognising the rights of trans women will negatively impact the ‘sex-based’ rights of cis women and that predatory men will exploit the proposed right to self-declaration to access women-only spaces or to gain advantage in sports and the workplace. This effectively makes trans women the focus of blame for the actions of predatory men.”
Is it not confused to state that, “This effectively makes trans women the focus of blame for the actions of predatory men.”
Should this not be, “This makes the few trans women who happen to be predatory a reason for focussing blame on all trans women”...it could then go on to explain that there are few trans women who are actually predatory (if that is the fact).
Of course it also misses the point that trans women may already have gained advantages by their previous lives as men ( socially and physically) and that women feel trans women should not compete in sports with women because of the physical danger to women this would cause, and the unfair competitive advantages this would set up, due to trans women’s originally male bodies.
It also misses the point that non predatory trans men also pose a perceived threat to some previously abused women and girls ( of whom there are a great many) who want the right to private spaces, or women whose religious practice demands privacy.
There is also no mention that women, quite understandably, do not think it is right that crimes committed by trans women should be classified, or reported, as having been committed by women.