The racial analogue doesn’t fit. The existence of women-only spaces isn’t meant to discriminate against men because men are provided comparable alternatives, and they’re only discriminatory against trans women because they’re not provided an alternative.
Trans women are women, but forcing women to emotionally react to trans women as if they were cis women is not a decision we can or should make for them. Feelings don’t care about your facts.
I’ll try to come up with some conflicts of interest of the top of my head:
Women generally prefer restrooms to be gender segregated as a matter of privacy. Trans women who don’t have the same eldritch horrors of bodies likely don’t fall under the same privacy grouping. Some places have taken the step of making all restrooms unisex but women often don’t like it when that happens.
Lesbian romantic events exist for women to meet other women, and while generally we should treat trans women as women, in no universe can or should we impose that onto people’s sexuality.
Someone who’s had a traumatic experience with men and goes to a women-only space, only to discover that someone they’ve been talking to has been AMAB all along. It could be a healing or re-traumatizing experience, but it shouldn’t be imposed upon them as a matter of trans inclusion.
While trans women aren’t necessarily better at sports than cis women, when they are it’s reasonable to think their birth sex might play a part (whether right or wrong). That thought alone discourages participation in women’s sports.
The racial analogue fits because we’re another minority group that faces discrimination. Hope that helps.
Seperate but equal, hmm, where have I heard that before?
What do your hypothetical women’s emotions have to do with segregation?
Trans women are women but we shouldn’t be allowed in women’s restrooms because we look different?
Trans women are women but what about lesbians? Because we love different?
Trans women are women but what if a women thinks I might have been a man once and freaks out about it? Because we are different?
Why should these hypothetical women’s feelings excuse discriminating against and segregating an entire demographic of women?
I know no woman who has said trans women in the bathroom make her uncomfortable. I’ve never even seen one.
A lesbians dating preference may be for gold star, should we ban women who have slept with men from lesbian spaces? A lesbian can just choose to not fucking date trans women.
The thought that someone may have been a man once. How horrible. What if she was raped by a woman? Should we ban women from women’s spaces to protect survivors?
Do you have evidence for that claim? I promise there are enough factors discouraging participation in women’s sports, funding, historical norms, cultural expectations, direct sexism, existing power structures, training opportunities, school opportunities, etc, so forth.
If i sign off as a transgender does it invalidate my feelings as a woman?
Trans women are women, but forcing women to emotionally react to trans women as if they were cis women is not a decision we can or should make for them. Feelings don’t care about your facts.
Not to medicalise this this shit but you can make the exact same argument for anyone who’s encountering a high needs neurodivergent, or someone who requires assistive devices, or someone who is heavily scarred, etc. Because the issues here are “I don’t like how they deviate from what I think X people should look like” and “I am making preconceived potential behaviours up to be “frightened” of” aka Bias.
And they can both go square back up the arse they came from. It’s not transwomen’s fault your parents never taught you humanity was diverse
The racial analogue doesn’t fit. The existence of women-only spaces isn’t meant to discriminate against men because men are provided comparable alternatives, and they’re only discriminatory against trans women because they’re not provided an alternative.
Trans women are women, but forcing women to emotionally react to trans women as if they were cis women is not a decision we can or should make for them. Feelings don’t care about your facts.
I’ll try to come up with some conflicts of interest of the top of my head:
The racial analogue fits because we’re another minority group that faces discrimination. Hope that helps.
Seperate but equal, hmm, where have I heard that before?
What do your hypothetical women’s emotions have to do with segregation?
Trans women are women but we shouldn’t be allowed in women’s restrooms because we look different?
Trans women are women but what about lesbians? Because we love different?
Trans women are women but what if a women thinks I might have been a man once and freaks out about it? Because we are different?
Why should these hypothetical women’s feelings excuse discriminating against and segregating an entire demographic of women?
I know no woman who has said trans women in the bathroom make her uncomfortable. I’ve never even seen one.
A lesbians dating preference may be for gold star, should we ban women who have slept with men from lesbian spaces? A lesbian can just choose to not fucking date trans women.
The thought that someone may have been a man once. How horrible. What if she was raped by a woman? Should we ban women from women’s spaces to protect survivors?
Do you have evidence for that claim? I promise there are enough factors discouraging participation in women’s sports, funding, historical norms, cultural expectations, direct sexism, existing power structures, training opportunities, school opportunities, etc, so forth.
If i sign off as a transgender does it invalidate my feelings as a woman?
Not to medicalise this this shit but you can make the exact same argument for anyone who’s encountering a high needs neurodivergent, or someone who requires assistive devices, or someone who is heavily scarred, etc. Because the issues here are “I don’t like how they deviate from what I think X people should look like” and “I am making preconceived potential behaviours up to be “frightened” of” aka Bias.
And they can both go square back up the arse they came from. It’s not transwomen’s fault your parents never taught you humanity was diverse