World upside down
Guys who identify as women reeeeeeeeeeally need to stop saying this.
Author David Thomas still lives as a man, but has begun the male-to-female gender transition that will eventually result in becoming a woman. This week he tackles the controversial issue of transwomen using female-only toilets
You know how parents tell children who are scared by spiders, ‘It’s much more frightened of you than you are of it’? Well, the same thing applies to transwomen in female-only toilets. However frightened women may be by our presence, we are way, way more petrified by having to be there.
No.
No.
Men don’t get to say that.
First of all he doesn’t and can’t even know that.
Second there really is such a thing as men assaulting women in isolated places, including such places as female-only toilets.
Third look at yourself. If you have a male body then women have more to fear from you than you do from them. You don’t get to flip that around just because you have a fashionable idea that you “identify as” a woman. Identifying as a woman doesn’t give you the skeleton and musculature and lungs and heart of a woman.
Fourth look at the analogy. Children and spiders. Children really can squash spiders with one quick smack. The same is not true of women with regard to men. The analogy is fucking ridiculous and it just betrays how maddeningly narcissistically indifferent too many men are to the real risks that women have to deal with.
See also: this astounding comment at Daily Nous:
What’s more, in making the empirical claim the GC crowd also never seems to want to acknowledge the very well documented violence that transwomen often face when forced to use men’s bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. The fact is that it is way more dangerous to be trans than it is to be a ciswoman. Conveniently, this inconvenient fact is never really acknowledge or discussed by the trans-exclusionary crowd.
Right. Ciswomen never face violence.
Nor does it give you the life experiences of a woman to know what exactly we feel and why we feel it, why I find it difficult to use the restroom at work anymore (I am fortunate to have a good bladder and can often go an entire day without, but on those days when I can’t, it’s brutal because we are not in town where I could jump over to the local something else and use their bathroom).
And transwomen being more at risk than ciswomen is so maddening, since the statistics show otherwise. But in today’s world, it seems to be statistics shamistics, I feel this fact deeply and sincerely. Plus, of course, stealing the LGBQ statistics to accomodate the T.
Is this violence “well documented” in the sense that the documents are all in the bottom of some well somewhere?
And it’s a “fact” that isn’t true.
https://medium.com/@sue.donym1984/the-transgender-movement-and-bad-stats-a-debunking-compilation-31760947b382
I just looked for and found that exact article and was about to post a link here, only to find that James has done so. Good article.
It’s on Medium, though. Medium has recently removed some gender critical material and canceled the accounts of some GC writers. It makes me worry that some important work will disappear.
Sounds like someone needs to archive it (I don’t know how to do that, but I do know how to download and save, which would at least make it available in a limited fashion)
Hm. I’m guessing that since Medium isn’t a personal blog but a site that publishes other people’s articles, the authors keep files of their articles. I doubt that the important work will disappear.
I can link to reports of women attacked by males, both trans and not-trans, in women’s rooms.
I keep challenging people to show me one instance of a trans person being attacked in a men’s room.
Just ONE.
Haven’t seen one yet.
Already archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20190510231727/https://medium.com/@sue.donym1984/the-transgender-movement-and-bad-stats-a-debunking-compilation-31760947b382
And the process to archive something is easy. Go to archive.org and put the url you want archived into the wayback machine search bar. If it is already archived, no worries; if it isn’t, the site will say something to the effect of “No archive of this page exists yet… would you like this to be archived?” Click a button or something and it is done.
But they are being attacked in women’s rooms! They are being called “he” or asked if they realize they are in the women’s room! Actual violence! Real genocide!
Holms – no kidding? I did not know that.
Holms, that’s the best bit of knowledge I’ve learned this entire year so far. Thanks!