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Trans Women are Real Women and Should Have Access to Women's Spaces

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user08101988 · Yesterday 12:32

Started because a thread on Girlguiding was getting too off topic.

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Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:16

BreatheAndFocus · Yesterday 18:12

Ah, so only feminine women are women, eh 🙄

Nope. There are plenty of masculine cisgender women, or feminine cisgender men.

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 18:16

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:14

Your semantic claims about the word trans do not follow directly from the linguistic distinction.

It basically means “faux” in the same way that “faux fur” isn’t made from animal skin.

ThreadGuardDog · Yesterday 18:17

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:14

Your semantic claims about the word trans do not follow directly from the linguistic distinction.

So the answer to the question would be ‘no I don’t follow’ ?

OneDogTwoCatsHalfaDH · Yesterday 18:17

TheCactusSpokes · Yesterday 13:56

Unfortunately penises are usually hard on women's only spaces which is why we need to keep them women only

But does that mean that Trans women who have undergonesurgery and no longer have a penis should be allowed in single sex spaces?

BreatheAndFocus · Yesterday 18:17

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:16

Nope. There are plenty of masculine cisgender women, or feminine cisgender men.

But ‘gender’ is simply regressive stereotypes - as you confirmed when going on about it ‘aligning with your sex’.

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:17

nicepotoftea · Yesterday 18:12

If sex in humans were complicated humans would be an evolutionary dead end.

What an odd thing to say. What makes you think that things that are complicated are less likely to survive? Biological complexity is usually associated with longer survival.

Frequency · Yesterday 18:17

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:14

Your semantic claims about the word trans do not follow directly from the linguistic distinction.

It does; adding trans as an identifier does not change one's sex. Just as adding wax as an identifier would not turn a woman into a wax figure.

Needapadlockonmyfridge · Yesterday 18:18

BreatheAndFocus · Yesterday 18:12

Ah, so only feminine women are women, eh 🙄

Dang. I have clearly been womaning all wrong.
Born a woman, am a woman. But I am not very feminine. So what does that make me?

BackToLurk · Yesterday 18:18

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:16

Nope. There are plenty of masculine cisgender women, or feminine cisgender men.

What are the signs of having a gender that aligns with your sex? How would someone know that?

ThreadGuardDog · Yesterday 18:18

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:16

Nope. There are plenty of masculine cisgender women, or feminine cisgender men.

No there aren’t because cisgender is a made up term to support a certain narrative, which women aren’t obliged to acknowledge.

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 18:18

EmpressDomesticatednottamed · Yesterday 18:15

You know it doesn't matter how many times you repeat yourself and try and drag the women here into your contextual framework they won't go. Women here will stick to centring women no matter how many times you try and make them include men.

Post modernism gets the blame for some of this, but post modernism requires contextual definition of terms not endless attempts at bludgeoning women into just rolling over and accepting the definitions of trans ideology. We aren't going to, there are 2 sexes and women require single sex provisions, so you are going to have to find another way to deal with your ever so complicated life.

Women here will say wear what you like, call yourself whatever name you choose, trans people should of course have the same human rights as other protected groups etc, but you are not going to get into and take everything that women have fought for and that we require because of our sex class by trying to stealthily dick about with definitions to get us to accept your terminology.

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The funny thing is this poster is very clear that they know “trans women” are men in the Equality Act 2010, which governs access to women only spaces.

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:18

BreatheAndFocus · Yesterday 18:17

But ‘gender’ is simply regressive stereotypes - as you confirmed when going on about it ‘aligning with your sex’.

No gender is not simply regressive stereotypes

BreatheAndFocus · Yesterday 18:19

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:18

No gender is not simply regressive stereotypes

Yes, it is.

viques · Yesterday 18:19

Happyjoe · Yesterday 18:13

Women born women are women. Anything else is make believe. Transwomen are transwomen, not women. Never will be, it's impossible and making labels for women is an insult.

Nearly there. Transwomen are men.

Lifelover16 · Yesterday 18:19

That is not what the study says at all. Did you read it? You obviously didn’t understand it.
The study was on 24 transgender women and ESTIMATED the MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY of transgender women having elements of female neuroanatomy, using a mathematical formula. So cannot be generalised from 24 people, and was an estimate of probability.
So in fact, hardly evidence at all.

Boiledbeetle · Yesterday 18:19

Taztoy · Yesterday 18:08

I’m still not getting meaningful engagement. And I genuinely don’t understand why not.

Because they can't give a coherent answer to you that sees, and empathises with, the situation from your point of view AND allows their men are women if they say they are to hold up.

So instead they ignore you or they post something that deservedly gets deleted.

So stunning and brave of them 🙄

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 18:19

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 18:16

It basically means “faux” in the same way that “faux fur” isn’t made from animal skin.

They're saying TWAW and whinging about semantics 🫠

ThreadGuardDog · Yesterday 18:19

Needapadlockonmyfridge · Yesterday 18:18

Dang. I have clearly been womaning all wrong.
Born a woman, am a woman. But I am not very feminine. So what does that make me?

Sticking my head above the parapet to suggest ‘tomboy’ !! I’ll get my coat !!

BreatheAndFocus · Yesterday 18:19

So, trans women are NOT real women (because they’re male) and they should NOT have access to women’s spaces (because they’re male).

nicepotoftea · Yesterday 18:19

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:17

What an odd thing to say. What makes you think that things that are complicated are less likely to survive? Biological complexity is usually associated with longer survival.

lets stick with 'easy to determine' then.

Seethlaw · Yesterday 18:20

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:09

The ones whose gender aligns with their sex registered at birth are cis

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Aaaaand... the ones whose gender doesn't align with their sex registered at birth are trans? So women who identify as men are trans women?

BackToLurk · Yesterday 18:20

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:18

No gender is not simply regressive stereotypes

Will you be telling us what it is. So we can all check whether ours align?

Happyjoe · Yesterday 18:20

viques · Yesterday 18:19

Nearly there. Transwomen are men.

Point made well. But I don't mind calling transwomen transwomen. I will never call them women because they are not.

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 18:21

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:18

No gender is not simply regressive stereotypes

It is. That is all it is. It’s a social construct based on sex.

Sunnibee · Yesterday 18:21

nicepotoftea · Yesterday 18:19

lets stick with 'easy to determine' then.

Typically yes, but not always. Rarely there are exceptions, as with almost all things. This is not unusual and should not be such a controversial idea.

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