His comfort is the only comfort
He doesn’t want to use the both sexes gym, he wants to use the women’s gym. There’s no thrill in using the both sexes one, it’s only the women’s that provides the creepy invasive threatening you don’t get to say no to me vibe.
A transgender woman in Parksville is speaking out after she was allowed to sign up for a women-only gym, then later told she would only be allowed to access the co-ed gym due to the fact that she is trans.
No, due to the fact that he is male.
Brigid Klyne-Simpson says she previously had a rocky relationship with exercise because she didn’t feel comfortable going to gyms and working out with mostly men.
So the solution is for him to make women feel not comfortable.
She says she has previously worked out at co-ed gyms and never felt comfortable because it was mostly men in the facilities.
And his comfort is the only comfort that matters. One man’s comfort matters more than the comfort of a gym full of women. It could be all the women in Parksville and their comfort wouldn’t matter as much as his.
“It was important to me to be in a place that would be like explicitly accepting, like, ‘you are a woman, you’re allowed to be here,’” she said.
But he’s not a woman.
The owner of the gyms has the guts to say the same thing.
Dale Nagra, owner of Bodyworks Fitness, says Klyne-Simpson is welcome to work out at the co-ed gym but says other gym-goers at the
ladieswomen-only gym may not be comfortable.“We want them to be comfortable, but we also have to worry about the young girls that this gym is set up for and the women, and how are their parents gonna feel that they’re in there, then this person walks in with a male voice and big person,” Nagra said.
“So now you pick the comfort of the male who identifies as a woman…and then anybody can go in there saying, ‘OK, I identify as a woman, and I want to be able to go in there.’ And so, do we pick the comfort of the transgender person, and they may not be as comfortable with the co-ed gym but at least that’s an alternative, or do we pick the comfort of the young girls that are working out there that might not feel comfortable?”
Exactly. Door number two, thank you.
Klyne-Simpson says she understands some people can feel uncomfortable at first if they have never met a transgender person before.
“But all it takes is education. Once you understand trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary people are who they say they are, it’s as simple as that,” she said. “If you still feel uncomfortable after that, that’s on you, it’s not on me. I am who I am, it’s as simple as that. I just look different. That’s all.”
All you have to do is recite the stupid mantra! Recite it, and men become women! It’s magic!
Kelli Paddon, B.C.’s parliamentary secretary for gender equity says situations like this highlight that it is important to continue working to advance transgender people’s rights.
“Trans people deserve to feel safe, welcome and affirmed for who they are. Trans women are women – period,” Paddon said in a statement to CHEK News. “At a time when trans people are under increased attack around the world, it’s up to all of us to speak out and to help break down barriers that transgender people face.”
Not the ones that protect women. Leave those barriers alone. Women are under attack around the world too, and there are vastly more of us. Trans women are a niche “demographic” and they demand “rights” that aren’t rights.
We already have the education to know he’s a male. What he’s demanding is re-education so that we accept that down is up, black is white, east is west, right is left and left is right. And a big hulking male is a female intimidated by buffed men.
Next he’ll be demanding a lifetime supply of spinach.
You can “report an error” in the story on the news website here: https://www.cheknews.ca/report-an-error/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cheknews.ca%2Ftransgender-woman-told-she-is-not-allowed-to-use-women-only-gym-in-parksville-1134924%2F
I reported this “factual error:”
I’ve commented on it before, but … The above is the assumption at the root of asking, “How many gay people do you know?” It asserts ignorance and prejudice as the reason one holds an opposing position. Instead of responding to one’s argument itself by demonstrating an invalid inference or unsound premise, the move is to shift attention to the motivation behind the argument. You may recognize this move as our old friend argumentum ad hominem.
I didn’t “need to know” any Gays or Lesbians to know same-sex marriage was not going to be the end of the world, I just had to be able to think and extrapolate from data. It was obvious that extending that right (rite?) would not reduce or impinge on the rights of others.
In the same way, I don’t need to know any trans people to know that there is an immutable difference between male and female, that sex is binary, and that some men are a clear and present danger to women.
Nullius, that’s so right – and Rev. The lesbians and gays were able to offer up something other than a catechism when people challenged their rights. They fought a long time for those rights.
Now the T is piggybacking on their fight, and too many of them are saying, yeah, okay, erase us. It was so easy (at first, but a lot of the L and G aren’t having any of it). They tried the same with feminists, and young ‘feminists’ rolled over, sat up, begged, and spoke. They recited the mantra.
Now it enrages them that older feminists, who remember what it was like to struggle for what we got, are saying no, are setting boundaries, and can tell the difference between male and female.
…and one way to deal with that is to keep all males out of all female-only spaces. It doesn’t matter whether or not you “know” have ever have ever “met” trans identifying males, they are all still male, so the rule still applies.
Patronising. Reminds me of christian apologists and their seeming belief that all they have to do to convince someone of the ‘truth’ of Christianity is to tell them about it. “Oh you’re an atheist? Have you not heard of Jesus?”
@Holms
I would get that often, too, but even more patronizing was the claim that I just hadn’t tried the right church. “Come to our church, we’re cool!”
“I’m one of the nice men who, even though I demand admittance to female only spaces, won’t ogle or assault you. I’m not one of those predators looking for any way to access women and girls. You can trust me.”
Women are supposed to ignore the big red flag and let down their guard, on his say so.
And if you still don’t let me have my way, I’ll stop being nice* and denounce you as a hateful bigot. I’m never going to relent, so ypu might as well surrender before things get ugly(er).
*As if there was any niceness to begin with. It’s gaslighting from the outset. The initial demand for access is itself aggressive and predatory. As TiMs don’t seem to notice or care, women must assume that the actual intent is aggressive and predatory. “We just want to pee!” Bullshit.