On a post about Great Britains sex-based spaces laws that was painted as trans people being “banned” from public restrooms, I pointed out that they are not banned, they just have to use the ones that are for their sex.
Nothing incorrect there. 100% factually correct. Sex and gender are constantly spoken about as being separate things now, since sex is not changeable (despite what the person who replied thinks)
I was then permanently banned for “transphobia”:
Do they even understand what a phobia is?
No, sex is not all that. Sex is which gametes your body should produce, or in even simpler terms - if you’ve got a Y, you’re a guy.
You really don’t understand biology very well. Insisting that people with various sex chromosome abnormalities should get a DNA test for something you could never tell looking at them (and therefore making them at risk in the socially wrong environment), or the much more common occurrence of someone who developed more masculine than their sex chromosomes would indicate as a result of androgen. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/virilization
Something tells me you’ve never sequenced your DNA to find out your sex chromosomes. Why should anyone? It’s just bigotry to make certain peoples’ lives worse. You can polish the turd of the bad arguments you have all you want, it’s still devoid of substance, science, or logic. It’s creative hatred from beginning to end.
“Sex and gender are two different things, I’m not a transphobe!”
*One comment later*
“Having a Y chromosome make you a man!”
I remember when people tried to be believable. If there was any doubt about you being a transphobe, your comments here have thoroughly assuaged those doubts. YDM.
It’s honestly annoying. Yes, sex and gender are two different things. This is correct, but hardly relevant. The chromosome thing is nonsense, even a cursory google would teach the layman there’s XY women and XX men who developed that way naturally, let alone all the inbetweens because like anyone who stops looking at their phone once in a while, life is messy. But then they go on to suggest that toilets should be separated according to sex. Few women would actually want XX trans guys in the women’s toilets.
It’s all just a lazy excuse to pester an already marginalised and vulnerable minority. That and the perverts who want an excuse to look in little girls private parts. And the most frequent victims of the penis inspectors? CIS XX women and girls who had the temerity to not wear make-up and dress hyper feminine when in urgent need of a shit.
God forbid someone wants to do a poo. Or tackle the real threat to women: CIS men. But right-wing women are too scared of their pastors, fathers, uncles, brothers, and elected representatives, so they would rather not attack them.
To quote Andrea Dworkin:
Meanwhile income inequality is worse than its ever been, the world is likely to go into an economic depression sooner rather than later, the planet’s on fire, fascism is on the rise across the world, and we’ve arguably never been closer to nuclear war. But hey, look over here, time to play penis inspector in the little girls bathroom.
You want to know the funny thing? I worked at a Dutch resort that got so tired of all this bullshit, they simply made all the toilets unisex. It wasn’t a political decision, the countries pretty right wing, it was a commercial decision. That’s the logical end result of all this nonsense.
Sorry for the huge rant. It just grinds my gears. And I’m not even trans.
And obviously I apologise if I made a small mistake somewhere. No offence meant.
!confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
What about women assigned female at birth, who live and develop as women, and then get a DNA test when they’re thirty which shows they have a Y chromosome due to a genetic quirk? Would you really say she’s biologically male? Surely you’ve got to admit there’s more to biological sex than just chromosomes.