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“Sexual crimes have risen by 11% in Scotland with gender neutral changing rooms”,dog whistle bollocks,how many have been committed by transpeople? Also sexual crime is up in general not just changing rooms. Sexual crimes are running at record rates in all the UK not just Scotland
nobody is saying it’s easy and there are no easy solutions and psycological harm done to people being forced into binary solutions is not something any of us can possibly gauge and to just put it down to hurt feelings is ridiculous.
“There is no evidence that transgender identified men pose less risk than any other man”.
More dog whistling ,there’s no evidence that they pose a risk greater or equal too either. But you know that putting an idea in minds by how you word something creates an issue. Iam not surprised at the use of these tools though,it’s how opinion polls get rigged

It’s no point me pretending there are no practical difficulties and that I understand these people ,which is why I usually shy away from such a difficult area but I do know that we live in a world where it’s possible to accommodate people safely and it’s perfectly possible that the physical self does not match the mind.Greater minds than me will work through it but the hysteria around vulnerable people from so called Christians is sickening. It’s not new, people of my age will remember Vanessa the pianist in town .
Binary people judging things they have no idea about is like ,men telling women they cannot abort .

Why is it a dog whistle to say men pose a risk to women? How do you stop non-trans identified men from abusing women in their own spaces if you open them up to anyone male who says they’re a woman? It’s pretty obvious we can’t, since many revert to not being trans post-prison after their sentence. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/anger-trans-inmates-revert-males-25840252. It’s clear self-id is not fit for purpose in protecting women from violent men. Frankly, it’s not women’s job to be a sponge for men deemed not manly enough to be in men’s spaces.

Again, why is it dog whistling to point out that transgender identified men pose as much risk to women as any other men? This whole movement is geared on rubbishing women’s fears of men, just like all other sexist MRA movements. You only have to look at the inmate stats to see that the offence rates for transwomen are similar to non-trans male counterparts. None of this is saying that all or the majority of transpeople are sex pests, but the fact is they are men and men pose a risk to women, regardless of their gender identities. It’s not anti-man to state that men pose a risk to women, it’s not anti-trans to say that transwomen pose a risk to women for the same reason as other men.

Your straw manning my argument as a means to pick on a minority is a common tactic which misses the point. Transpeople do face issues from society, but they do not from those who want to protect women’s rights, it’s from men. They do not have rights to stomp over women’s or gay rights because of their ‘inner feelings’. Women have a right to go to a rape crisis centre without men, they have a right to not be searched by men, they have a right to compete in sport without men. It’s not picking on a vulnerable minority to say this, nor is it to say that some members of minority groups are not angels.