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>Some transgender people have cosmetic surgery. But most retain their birth genitals. Everyone's equality and safety should be protected, but women and girls lo
by gehwartzen 7y ago
>Some transgender people have cosmetic surgery. But most retain their birth genitals. Everyone's equality and safety should be protected, but women and girls lose out on privacy, safety and fairness if males are allowed into changing rooms, dormitories, prisons, sports teams.
I'm not sure I follow her argument here. Does she mean that fundamentally the presence of male genitalia in these spaces is the problem? That a transgender female is not acceptable in these spaces unless birth genitalia is removed at which point it becomes acceptable (independent of any other changes i.e hormonal)?
And if so how does the presence of male genitalia make the space less safe? I assume because males have a higher rate of committing sexual assaults (which I guess is a fair argument). But then why would a penis attached to an otherwise female body pose a problem since I assume it is male neurobiology and hormones that drive sexual assault behavior (not the genitalia)
- anon1000 7y agoThe author cites a number of sources which deal with "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism" which asserts that Transwomen aren't in fact women at all. She emphasizes this with a tautology: >Trans women are trans women Which deviates from the trans-positive claim of "trans women are women". Her position is fairly clear in that she doesn't think of trans-women as being interchangeable with "real" women. From there, you can much easier derive her line of thought.
- intarga 7y agoShe only says >Transwomen are transwomen once, in an effort to sound reasonable. The rest of the time she just calls them men...