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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Prisons and similar are a different issue, but even there strict sex segregation isn't the solution if you have the safety of all vulnerable groups both during and after the sentence in mind.

What's your view on hospital and nursing or care home placement, and on intimate care in such settings or at home?

Should women who are bedridden, ill, long-term disabled and/or elderly have to share hospital rooms, wards & toilet & bathing facilities with members of the opposite sex based on the other persons' gender identity?

If you have a grandmother or great-grandmother who resides in a long-term HCF, would you label her transphobic and bigoted if she felt uncomfortable having to share a room and toilet/bathing facilities with someone of the opposite sex who enjoyed all the perks & privileges of being a male for 60-70 years (like Jenner, Pritzker, Eddie Izzard) but late in life started claiming to be a woman? What if she had known -or known of - this person for decades?

Is it transphobic for disabled, elderly and/or dying girls & women who need help with intimate care like bathing and toileting to want such care to be provided only by other females, not by males who wish they were female? Is it transphobic for a girl or woman in such circumstances to feel deeply uncomfortable with the idea of getting such care from someone who is male but claims to "identify as" a woman?

Is it transphobic of disabled and elderly people who depend on home carers and assistants to stipulate that such persons be one sex or the other? Should those of us who are dependent on in-home assistance not have a say about the sex of the people who come into our homes to provide us with nursing, intimate and other kinds of care? Is it morally wrong for vulnerable people who need home care to want to have a say over the sex of who we let into the one place that's supposed to be our very own "safe space"?

Is it transphobic for girls & women to only want intimate medical care like pelvic exams, Pap smears, mammograms & forensic exams done after rape or assault by a male to be done only by someone who is female?

Is it transphobic for men getting prostate exams to want them done by someone else with a prostate, rather than by a female person who identifies as a man? Are elderly men who feel comfortable getting intimate care only from someone of a certain sex transphobic?

Is it transphobic for an adolescent male with a groin injury requiring surgery to be very uncomfortable at the idea of having his wound checked and tended to - and his post-op intimate washing done - by someone of the opposite sex, regardless of how they identify? Is it transphobic and immoral of him to insist that those providing such care be male like he is? Is his mother transphobic if she respects his wishes? Or should she tell him he's a bigot for not wanting to get such care from a female who "identifies as" a man?