[quote justaftb]@Datun - agreed.
I keep thinking about how powerful language is and how gender ideologists have manipulated language.
We have two sexes - male and female. We segregate some services and facilities into separate facilities for males and females. One of the reasons we do this is because females are at risk of violence from males. Not all males, but some males. This is proven.
But we start calling some males "transwomen" or "transgirls", promulgating the the idea that these males are a subset of females rather than a subset of males, that they are different to other males, that they have more in common with females than their fellow males, that they suffer the same risks from males as females do.
Why do our legislators, our politicians, our decision makers believe that this subset of males deserve special privileges? What is their justification for making allowances for this subset of males? What are these exceptions based on?
I refuse to use the words "woman" or "girl" now when referring to individuals from this subset of males. I will not participate in the perpetration of this fraud for as long as women and girls suffer as a result of it.
I know that my unthinking or "be kind" friends are heavily (sub-consciously) influenced by hearing the words "woman" and "girl" used when talking about this issue. Some don't even understand that we are talking about males. When discussing the Olympics, one Canadian friend said that it was OK that "transwomen" were participating in the women's categories. There was a "transwoman" on the Canadian women's soccer team and she didn't have any advantage over the other players. Yes, there was a person who identifies as trans on the team, but she was female! My friend thinks "transwoman" means a female who identifies as a man, not the other way around. She thought the uproar about "transwomen" participating in the Olympics was because of bigotry over some women's decision of how to present themselves rather than males be allowed to compete in women's categories! She has at least 2 master degrees from excellent universities and is still confused by this!
As no good reason is forthcoming for why we make exceptions for one subset of males and allow them to use services and facilities designed for females, then either we allow no males, no matter how they identify, use those services and facilities, or we abolish all single-sex services and facilities because allowing one subset of males in seems to be saying that we do not need to segregate the sexes at all.[/quote]
I agree. The entire concept is nonsense.
There is a clip of Julia Long talking in her own marvellously eloquent way about how unnecessary it is to talk about people being trans at all.
It's just men and women.
The only reason I give it any verbal acquiescence at all is because of the threat of consequences.
I'm being compelled,