Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Try shutting up.

… trying to force the unachievable on the unwilling….

That’s as good a summary of the whole outrage as I have ever heard.

There’s something about that logic which bothers me. Why the baked in assumptions that the third space must be trans only, rather than inclusive, willing and knowingly participating? It could have been packed with trans women, genderqueers, inclusive feminists and all the so called allies.

Because they wanted to be seen as women, period. Not going into women’s spaces breaks that narrative, and rubs their noses in the mad impossibility of their quest. In their minds, being women “by choice” or “through effort” makes them better women than those lazy, ungrateful women who have femaleness handed to them on a silver platter at conception. Everyone should be rooting for them, the underdogs. They’re oppressed by so-called “cis-women”, who are barring their trans “sisters” from their rightful place in all female spaces. Everyone loves a good rags-to-sequins and glitter story, right, and if they don’t, they’ll be made to like it. Not to mention that it is fueled by classic male entitlement in lipstick and heels.

“Allyship” is a one way street, and is only useful to the extent that it gets them what they want, just like forced teaming. Share the cost, appropriate all the rewards. Do they want to be stuck in the same facilities as all those other wierdos? Fuck no. They DEMAND access to women’s toilets BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN! Anything less is hateful bigotry. “Logic” has very little to do with it. Who needs logic when you can just bully your way to your goals? Bulldozers don’t explain, argue, or debate. They just push forward, destroying all obstacles and obstructions.