Originally Posted by
cher1
I don't know anyone who has an anti trans identity, do you?
Did you know that many women find the term cis really offensive? I am a woman, not a cis woman. Who are the 'anti trans folk'?
And I find this sentence REALLY offensive:
'Now, I know this is all about image and wanting to be seen as a victim of the "trans menace" but it's quite a piss take.'
I am a survivor of male violence. That's no 'piss take'. Wanting single *** spaces for women is nothing to do with being anti trans, and everything to do with protection from male violence, and safeguarding. Why would you consider something that protects women to be anti trans? It's about women.
Your comment comparing doctors and and prisons is nonsensical, happy to explain why should you wish.
After Harold Shipman, wholesale changes were made to the way doctors practise to minimise the risks to patients. You might not be aware of that. In the same way, when something that should never happen in a prison occurs, that set of circumstances should not be allowed to happen again. No woman should ever be locked in a cell with a biological male. You might like to read some of the letters from women in prisons in California, where more than 300 biological males are being moved to women's prisons. Why do their rights trump the safety of the women? The women are terrified.
You seem to dismiss women being attacked in prison as some sort of collateral damage, oh its just the odd r a p e. Why do you dismiss the rights of women so easily? Those rights are hard won and not for men to give away.
Men, women and trans prisoners must all be kept safe in prison. However, one group's rights must never ever put another group's in danger.
I'm well aware that this subject has been covered on here in depth recently, and dont want to bang on about it endlessly. Happy to take the discussion to private messages instead?