Every word a mistake

The confusion is everywhere.

https://twitter.com/Writerer/status/1603156297712603139

All of that is wrong. Not a little, not half, not most of it, but all.

Of course trans people’s access to private spaces is restricted; so is mine, so is everyone’s. That’s what “private” means.

Access to some public spaces is also restricted. Many public spaces are for specific sets of people…like public toilets for instance. Most areas in hospitals; most areas in schools; backstage in restaurants, bars, shops, theaters; most areas in offices; many areas in airports; the fronts of planes. Public doesn’t mean unrestricted.

The view is not that people who call themselves the other sex don’t exist, it’s that people who call themselves the other sex are wrong. Being wrong about what you are is not at all the same as not existing. Being wrong about what you are is an extremely common situation, because we’re just not very good at avoiding the natural bias of believing ourselves more than we believe everyone else.

That’s it, that’s the whole tweet, and it’s wrong from start to finish.

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