Article by Julie Bindel in the Telegraph
... I have yet to come across a sensible way to compare gay liberation and trans issues. Each has its own sensitivities. Unlike someone trying to change who they are physically, gay and lesbian people were fighting to be recognised as their current selves. We were not seeking taxpayer-funded access to surgery or hormone treatments, but simply to be acknowledged as equal under the law. There was no question of impeding on the freedoms of others, and we did not insist that there was “no debate” to be had, or claim people who questioned us wanted to make us invisible.\
Some rightly highlight that much of the bigoted discourse around gay men was that they were sexual predators and therefore a danger to children. The claim is that this is what feminists are saying about trans women. This is not true. The homophobic accusation was general and inaccurate, but what we are saying is specific and accurate: that women need single sex spaces because a significant enough minority of men are perpetrators of such acts. We recognise that this is the same when it comes to men identifying as women. ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/20/dangerous-conflate-gay-trans-rights-struggles/