A few questions
But sir…
From the Scottish Daily Express:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has claimed that banning trans women from using female bathrooms is a “dangerous road to go down” as he raised concerns about how this would be policed. He also insisted that he didn’t regret voting for Nicola Sturgeon’s controversial gender reforms, despite the issues they have raised now.
But sir. But sir. You say “dangerous” but what about the danger to women if men who claim to be trans are not banned from using female bathrooms? Why do you worry about the danger to men while ignoring the danger to women? You are aware that male violence to women is a good deal more common than female violence to men, right? You are aware that men are significantly bigger and stronger than women, aren’t you? Why are you fretting about potential danger to men while ignoring potential danger to women? I suppose it’s because you’re a man yourself, is that it? Could you possibly try to do better?
Oh, they know this. It’s in every quote they give out about TW (men) being safer in women’s bathrooms. They know; they just want to pretend that some males are women, and therefore no danger to women.
They’re always worried about how a legal ban on trans-identified men in women’s spaces will be enforced because they always assume that trans-identified men will ignore it because they always believe it ought to be ignored.
“But when they break the law, what are you going to do about it, huh? Huh? Better forget that law”
I call that tacit permission.
Why is this any more dangerous than banning men from using female bathrooms? Facilities are segregated (or should be) by sex. Trans identified males remain male. If they are “unsafe” in male facilities, then that is an issue for men to deal with. Trans activists are permanently blind to the danger that self ID poses to women, and believe the actual harms to women are an acceptable price to pay for their “right” to affirmation. This is made clear by their rejection of third space facilities. That women become human shields and props for the more important task of confirming the “womanhood” of a few mwn is much more important in the greater scheme of things.
TiMs demand access to women’s facilities, and not just toilets. They want all of them. They force their way into all women’s facilities, spaces, teams, jobs, etc., even when there is absolutely no question about their “safety” from other men. It’s all of a piece; it’s all or nothing. TWAW is a totalizing program. Their “validation” and “affirmation” as “women” requires that they be given everything that belongs to women, so that they can be their “authentic” selves. Any unceded territory is like a loose thread which, if pulled, unravels the whole, ill-knitted, ugly sweater of trans “rights.”.
They keep on saying this as if sex segregation without regard to gender identity was a new thing, apparently forgetting that this was the default for the entire run of public amenities until gender identity was introduced! It’s hard to say exactly when e.g. public toilets began in a nation, but the UK/Scotland only gained gender recognition certificates as a legal instrument in 04/04/2005. Prior to that they did not exist and hence sex was the only method by which a person could legally be recognised as a man or woman.
We’ve been there before because it was always recognised that the female sex needed spaces protected from male entry due to the overwhelming statistical trend visible in all sex-related crimes: males are almost always the aggressor, females almost always the victim. Has that become untrue since the last time I looked? It was also always recognised, until recently, that the female sex needed shortlists for promotions, prizes, accolades and the like because of the statistical fact that those things went overwhelmingly to the male sex, relegating women to virtual invisibility. Has that become untrue lately?
So on and so forth. These things are not dangerous, untested new paths – they are a return to what was fought for and gained as a protection for the female sex. We have been there before, and their necessity has not gone away.