“But anyway, why does it matter if people can or can't change sex? I don't understand why posters here think it's so important. Just let people be. Their chromosomes and hormones are their own business and don't matter.”
This above was posted as well on another post.
I will just post this from another thread where I and others spent considerable time trying to point out how legitimate discrimination under the EA and under safeguarding risk assessment works to fox. I see that they still wish to stay on extreme transgender rights activist mode in broadcasting their misinformed and polarised stance. One that allows for no deviation from the ridiculously dismissive and harmful claim that I bolded above.
However, Sex is absolutely real and it is proven. Gender identity has been proven to be only a philosophical belief and is changeable, sometimes in constant flux.
There is one form of ‘negative sex discrimination’ based on sex that feminists have long fought against such as female people being excluded from employment, education, activities etc based on their sexed body. This is considered illegitimate discrimination and is harmful to female people.
There is also the necessary form of discrimination that is used for calculating safeguarding risks which is also based on sexed bodies, but the only 'negative' impact it has is to exclude one sex from a space designated as single sex for safety purposes. This discrimination has been the basis of sex segregated spaces since those spaces became available to public life. This form of discrimination is a legitimate form
of discrimination as it benefits all female people through improving safety and their privacy and dignity. Incidentally, male single sex spaces are also allowed using this type of discrimination as well.
The EA allows for this type of legitimate discrimination. Because without that discrimination, female people are negatively impacted by trans people being treated as if they were the gender they declare they are.
The statement, “That trans people should be treated differently from others with the same gender identity.”, is like the usual mantras we see. It is far too simplistic and it never comes close to acknowledging that sex is sometimes more important that gender identity. Therefore there are times when sex needs to take priority making this statement unworkable.
But that is the point. Making it is unworkable is the point. Nothing but full acceptance is to be allowed. Remember too that we are told ‘Their chromosomes and hormones are their own business and don't matter.’ This is demonstrably false. IT IS OTHER PEOPLE’S BUSINESS TO KNOW THE SPACE THEY EXPECT TO BE SINGLE SEX IS NOT SINGLE SEX.
People who dismiss the need for legitimate discrimination are, in reality, misogynistically dismissing the needs of some of the truly most marginalised people in the UK. Women and girls who are vulnerable with no support and who need single sex spaces to heal from trauma and be able to live without the devastating combination of several axis of oppression.
Where is sex important?
Single sex spaces
Single sex health care
Female sports
Roles set aside for a specific sex that is considered applicable under the EA.
Here are just four instances.
Shall we ask fox to tell us why male athletes should be allowed to compete in female sports categories?