Shut up and drop your pants
Yet again the same old point missed.
Scouts Scotland is accused of ignoring the Supreme Court’s gender ruling and allowing children and adults to use the toilets and sleeping quarters of the opposite sex.
But of course it isn’t just “allowing”; it’s also forcing. The forcing part is the problem. By “allowing” some people to use the toilets and sleeping quarters of the opposite sex you are forcing others to do so. You can’t do the one without doing the other. That’s the whole point, which is always left unstated by sloppy reporting. The news media need to start making this clear at the very beginning.
Scouts Scotland said its trans and gender identity guidance — which states that “trans people should use the facilities they feel most comfortable using” — would remain unchanged. It said its leaders would be encouraged to provide “mixed-gender toilets wherever possible”.
Thus we see that what makes trans people comfortable is important while what makes everyone else comfortable is not important.
The organisation marked Trans Awareness Week this month by underlining its commitment to its policy. Lisa Cowan, its LGBTI lead, said last week: “We strive to ensure that everyone, regardless of their gender identity, feels safe, welcome and supported.”
No they don’t. That’s just a lie. They don’t strive to ensure that girls feel safe or welcome or supported.
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This minority of 0.44% of the population manages to generate an awful lot of noise and political clout, putting that half of the population represented by women ill at ease and concerned for their safety in restrooms etc.
There’s something missing from that list: single-sex accommodation. Nobody noticed they didn’t list that as an option, right? It’s mixed sex or the pariah tent.
But the rest of everybody (99.56%, per above) can’t have the facilities they feel most comfortable using, if those facilities are single-sex.
It’s funny about the “facilities they feel most comfortable using”. The other day I was in a museum where they’ve changed the bathroom signs, so instead of there’s now [little picture of a toilet and little picture of a urinal] and instead of there’s now [little picture of just a toilet]. My husband was about to go into the latter, and then he saw a woman coming out, realized it was the former women’s toilet and backed away VERY quickly. It’s interesting how pretty much everyone is treating the “new” gender neutral facilities exactly like the old ones.
“[T]rans people should use the facilities they feel most comfortable using.”
I know it’s been stated repeatedly, here and elsewhere, but that policy leaves girls and women, for the most part, with NO facilities they ” feel comfortable ” using. Why does the comfort of a few men matter SO MUCH MORE than the comfort of girls and women? I will never understand how they don’t see that “comfort of men in women’s facilities” = zero spaces left where women can feel comfortable.
WHY is it so “uncomfortable” for the men to continue to use the men’s sex-segregated facilities? Nobody ever articulates what this “comfort” or “discomfort” consists of. I think the men in porno womanface fear male pattern violence against the feminized men. To an extent, this has been a problem among the men since forever, where insufficiently macho men are attacked by men insecure in themselves. Geeks, gay guys, smaller or effeminate looking men have been set upon by their violent counterparts in the past. So it may not be wholly unreasonable for trans identified men to be concerned about their safety in men’s single-sex facilities. However, never before has this problem been shifted onto the backs of women to solve for the men. It’s not women’s problem. It’s the men’s problem to solve among themselves. I think they can solve it. All the trans identified men need to do is surround themselves with their violent Black Pampers intimidation squads, and intimidate the bullying macho men the same way they set about intimidating women. There’s enough male pattern violence emanating from the trans-identifying-men’s side to provide a reasonable counterbalance to any threat from the macho men. The men could teach other men that there is more than one way to be a man. Some men like to play women’s dress-up and go out in public. Far be it from me to say they have no right to do that if they want to. The trans identified men and their male allies can provide any protection they might need against male pattern violence. Any “discomfort” trans identified men feel in men’s single-sex facilities can be alleviated by those men themselves, and their non-trans male allies.
Bottom line : Solve your own problems. Leave the women alone.