A small but important right
Deep thought.
Yes you do.
Yes, you do. In some circumstances you most definitely do. Not all, but some.
It might make you uncomfortable to have a stranger come into your house uninvited and settle down in your living room, even if that stranger never harmed anything or shouted at you or stole one of the lamps. You do have a right not to be made uncomfortable that way.
The toilets situation is not exactly like that, but it’s not radically different, either.
It seems so simple, when you look at it. It isn’t about being made uncomfortable; it’s about boundaries. Women and girls must set boundaries because men and boys are stronger and more aggressive. We do have a right to set boundaries. Yes, we do.
As for “how do you people use the bathroom”? Spoken like a true man. In a men’s room, yes, they see genitals. In a women’s room, that’s not the norm. We use the bathroom in stalls. But when a penis-haver comes in and starts swinging around a dick, it is our right to say we don’t want that in our bathroom. We’re talking about boundaries, right? Men, violating women’s boundaries. Men, not allowing women to set boundaries. Men, telling women to get over it already about their stupid boundaries.
It’s all too depressingly familiar.
Um, actually [straightens glasses], the discomfort of women and girls at seeing a male in female-only spaces arises from a reasonable apprehension of harmful or offensive contact. As typically defined in law, assault is an “intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact.”
Make of this what you will.
Isn’t the whole logic for putting TIMs in women’s restrooms supposed to be because they’re uncomfortable being in the men’s restroom?
Well…yes, but you see…erm…oh look, a mermaid.
To be fair, it’s not about TIMs feeling uncomfortable in men’s washrooms. Well, okay, they’d feel “uncomfortable” because it would mean that not everyone goes along with their delusion and that’s why they’re using the bathroom of the sex they were “assigned” at birth.
But of more concern is the very real danger of physical assault from male transphobes.
Whereas gender critical (and only that TINY minority) women’s fears about assaults from transwomen are groundless, baseless and transphobic. IT NEVER HAPPENS.
And the very idea that a “cis” male predator would use the TRA fought-for right to not even have to “present” as the stereotypical binary notion of “female” [what is it with these GC women and their slavish upholding of the gender binary???? BTW: How do you like my poodle skirt, blonde wig and pink gloves???] in order to “self-identify” as “female” (or “trans” which is all that and more) … where was I??? …. Oh yeah! The idea that a male sexual predator would use his new found right to waltz into women’s washrooms and assault a woman is preposterous on the face of it.
Like the people say: “This NEVER happens!”
[The above was all offered in the spirit of satire or parody or whatever.]
So, seeing as they’re being so sanguine at the fact that other people’s actions or behaviour will make you uncomfortable at times, they’ll be down with gender critical feminists holding and expressing their views, and people saying “Sorry Shirley, but the male body makes it hard to accept that you’re a biological woman, although your dress picks out the red in your beard beautifully.”
How on earth did Mermaids get registered as a charity? Can any organization, for example B4U-ACT, call itself a charity?
It always blows my mind how swiftly virtually the entire Left forgot about the phrase “Schroedinger’s Rapist”. It was the go-to for the explanation why women couldn’t just trust a random guy, even though he might seem alright–because rapists don’t wear neon signs on their heads, and thus you only know a guy is a threat when he actually reveals himself to BE a threat.
And of course, this was true even though the vast, vast majority of men not only aren’t rapists, but are repulsed and revolted by the idea of rape. The harm that can be committed by the small minority of men who are rapists vastly outweighs the ‘harm’ done to men by not having women’s immediate trust.
So even if trans women are less likely to rape than men (unproven, of course, but a frequent claim deeply believed by the TRAs), that doesn’t lower the risk to zero (we have actual proof of that, thanks), and therefore the principle still applies.
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