Use women's refuges? 2022 in brackets vs 2024
Should be allowed 47 [39] 31%. 2018 - 2024 this is decrease by 16%
Should not be allowed 27 [36] 47%. 2018 - 2024 this is increase by 20%
Don't know 26 [25] 22%. 2018 - 2024 this is decrease by 4%
I wondered about this overnight. While changing rooms has a much stronger reaction, why has refuges resulted in this weaker rejection. And to me, this is where the harm from misinformation impacts the most. Misinformation about the violence experienced by male people with transgender identities. When the public keep hearing the high rates of murders, heavily skewed by South American prostitutes while being very safe from being murdered in the UK, they retain this vision and therefore are still in the don’t know category.
Or they believe the ‘we (male people with trans identities) are beaten up by men so can never be with the men’ line and believe these male people most certainly should not be with men.
Maybe also because they have not put it all together. They know that these male people should not be competing in female sport, and should not be using female changing rooms, because there has been lots of discussion about this and influential women discussing it. Women’s shelters are not being discussed as much and so they may not have thought about it.
They may not yet have put together the understanding about why male people shouldn’t be competing in sport and be in changing rooms to apply to refuges. So they switch back to ‘be kind’ when being kind to male people is increasing the harm to female people. It is clear that women need to be discussing this topic more so that the instinctive nurturing male people reaction based on emotional stories is weaker than the knowledge that a declaration from a male that they are a female person changes nothing of relevance for accessing women’s refuges.
I also think that maybe people answering are thinking if a male person has lost their power to the degree they are seeking access to women’s refuges, they must only be the ones without penises and who are ‘as weak as female people’. Whereas it includes people like Dolatowski between jail stints, and the reported male person masturbating in shared accommodation bedrooms in a shelter housing abused and traumatised women. But the public being polled don’t think of this as top of mind examples of why make people should not be in female single sex provisions.
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