Typical MO here. Words come from the links.
Why I’m suing Survivors’ NetworkThe reaction to Sarah’s case has been “enormously eye-opening”, she says: “The levels of anger and vitriol against me, all because I asked for a single-sex rape support group. I just don’t understand it.” To see so many women online empathise more with the trans person’s possible sense of exclusion than with her trauma felt, Sarah says, like when her female friends refused to believe that their male friend had raped her because they liked him. So many women care more about the feelings of men than the needs of other women…
[G]ender activists would say that trans people are so marginalised that it doesn’t matter that they’re male: women should accommodate them. “I’m sure they are marginalised in some places, but where I live there are ten organisations with dedicated groups for the wellbeing of trans women, and none just for women. So I wouldn’t say they’re marginalised here,” she says.
Helen, a severely learning-disabled girl: sex-based rights under threatAs Helen’s parents, it took us a while to realise the importance of sex-based rights for both her, and for girls and women like her. These rights are under threat. These are the girls and women whose severe disabilities mean that nearly every aspect of their days and lives is planned for them, and done to them. They have no mental capacity (they are fully reliant on others to take decisions in their best interests). They have no voice.
Their disabilities leave them with no sense of stranger-danger. They are unable to tell anyone if they have been flashed, groped, or raped. They are unable to advocate for themselves or draw attention to their vulnerability through social media such as Twitter. They are entirely dependent on others, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Their threatened rights include:
• The right to have women-only care staff dealing with intimate care, helping use the loo and manage menstruation.
• The right to go to a women’s clothes shop, changing room, or bra-fitting service, and for there to be only women present.
• The right not to be seen naked by or see naked men in swimming pool changing rooms (Helen loves swimming).
Obviously, nobody could imagine that male staff would be thought routinely eligible for roles providing intimate care to severely learning-disabled girls, right? Wrong.
Voices forgotten in the push for gender neutral changing rooms - disabled women, rape victims and religious groupsWomen don’t need to be rape victims in order for this to be important to us. Every rape victim was once a non victim. Most women start doing “rape prevention” behavior, which primarily consists of avoiding being alone with strange men, before we are adults. The assumption that men who believe they are women or pretend to be women will not commit sexually violating acts (voyeurism, harassment, sexual assault, rape and sexual murder) is not a risk women can take.
Allowing some men into enclosed spaces where women undress equals women and girls being sexually abused by men. Men can’t even be Uber drivers without committing sexual crimes. The insistent public denial of this ancient / common sense / irrefutable / easily observable knowledge is part of rape culture. Women are blamed when we are raped. We are told it’s our job to prevent it by being on guard and careful about everything we do. Now this burden is being made even more difficult because we have to accommodate men who want to exist in a fantasy land. When will women’s burden of managing men’s sexual misbehavior be recognized?
The goal post moved long ago. The TRAs are going to say, "Just go to the bathroom and do your business. Why do you care?", "He's not even doing anything to you or any other women".
You are to accept unisex bathrooms no matter how uncomfortable you feel. Your feelings don't matter. Only men's feelings (both trans identified ones and regular bros) matter. If you don't like it, stay home.
The funniest thing is they think a sign is gonna stop someone who actually wants to do harm. Having a “female” symbol on the door isn’t some sort of kryptonite for men lol, but women can also be harmful so like ??? What gives???
You heard them, Ladies! There's no point in having ANY safeguards at all because bad people will do bad things regardless of laws! So we might as well abolish all laws against rape, murder, and theft because that stuff still happens despite laws existing. And remove the locks from your home and car because thieves who REALLY want to steal your shit will do it anyway! And also abandon age of consent because it doesn't prevent 100% of child molestations, etc.
What's happening is death by a thousand cuts, some bigger than others,
all contributing to making life worse for women.
