Originally a comment by YNnB on Soz.

How would “trans people” not feel safe sitting near her? For that matter how would they know they were sitting near her? How would they have the faintest idea they were sitting near her? Or who she was or what she had said?

It’s not as if she was infected with a disease, or radioactive. The fact that trans people claim that being in an online meeting with alleged TERFS and transphobes makes them feel “unsafe”, means it can’t be simple physical proximity that concerns them. Online meetings and fora are not, as far as I know, covered by the inverse square law. What is being policed is not “safety” but disbelief. You will believe in Tinkerbell, or her death is on your hands. Doubt or questioning is not allowed. People who harbour doubts or questions, even if they are not expressed, are not allowed. Evidence or history of skepticism renders you an Unperson. Just exactly whose right to exist is being questioned here?

Trans activists are alarmed by the fact that people who do not bow to the gender religion are allowed to wander around at all. Capturing the police was supposed to fix that. They were supposed to enforce belief, or at least punish displays of resistance. Strange how “policing” thought doesn’t really work. The thoughts still happen, and given the apparent propensity for bullying, intolerance, and violence exhibited by trans activism, the “arrow of concern” would be pointing in the other direction. This is confirmed by her harrassment by the police.

Let’s look at an actual example of a real threat to safety. Calling the authorities because a man is in women’s spaces is quite different from calling the authorities because a woman calls you a man. A man in female facilities has already violated boundaries. Calling a man “a man” does not. Thinking a man is a man does not. A man in women’s spaces is a threat. It is a harm to women whether he does anything else or not. Having an idea is not a threat. The two are incommensurate; men are afraid that women will laugh at them: women are afraid that men will kill them. Until “thoughts” can kill, a stadium full of trans activists is safe from Ms. Smith.