It shows the limits of his intelligence to ask a woman "what do you think I might do?". And to then go on to say you can be assaulted anywhere. "Oh, wow James! We did not know that, you're so right given that we can be assaulted anywhere at any time it makes no sense to have any privacy at all, so we should all get undressed in front of men all the time and not worry about it because we could just as easily be felt up on the tube or raped at home or down an alley or murdered by our partner. What on earth are we making such a big song and dance about, silly, silly us!"
She was incredibly calm and I don't think he liked that at all. He was trying to make her angry so he could dismiss her as a nutter which in the end he did by cutting her off when she sarcastically said "Yes, I'm a religious extremist" (not exact words).
She was right, of course. My take on the whole gender thing is that instead of saying to kids "Oh, you want to wear a dress. YOU ARE A GIRL AND NOT A BOY!" you say, "fair enough, you might get teased for it at school but you can wear whatever you want." If a girl wants to play with cars and toy soldiers it's not "YOU ARE A BOY AND NOT A GIRL!" you just let her play with what she wants to play with. Gender restrictions are the issue and the fact that instead of dealing with that we are reverting to some insane decades-old notion of what is a woman and what is a man. The numbers of people who want to fully and completely transition are very, very low. When I was much younger I thought they should be allowed to. When I was older I thought that maybe throwing surgery at something that was not so much a mental illness but definitely a disorder wasn't such a good idea. I still don't think it's a good thing, not because I'm a transphobe but because while I can see that it helps to "look like"what you feel you are, but men who transition have medical issues for life because the vaginas that are made for them are basically a wound and to keep it open there are infections and all manner of difficulties. Likewise, give a woman who transitions a penis and it's not a penis. It might look like one but it doesn't behave like one (might be an advantage given how some penises attached to men behave, but I digress). However, if someone is given all the information about the medical difficulties and they still want to go ahead after proper therapy then I guess that should be possible but I think at some point in the future of humanity it will seem to have been a very barbaric thing to do. The percentage of people who go down this root is tiny.
Most of the TRA are people who want the "benefits" without surgery which is fair enough, I wouldn't want my body disfigured either, but the "benefits" they want are ones invented by them, forced on others and stolen from centuries of work from women trying so hard to get out from under patriarchal oppression. Just as we're getting somewhere TRAs find a way to take it away from us.
My other issue is when it comes to children an awful lot, especially among young girls, are gay/lesbian and somehow they are being informed - by not necessarily well-meaning adults and our society at large, that's it better to be a straight trans person than a gay wo/man.
And breathe. Sorry. That was a bit tl;dr. Apologies for any grammatical errors/typos that sort of thing.