QT: Do you understand why women need single sex spaces?

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[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 5 insightful - 9 fun5 insightful - 8 fun6 insightful - 9 fun -  (1 child)

I am a natal female, and honestly I see no point for sexsegregated spaces. For instance in a bathroom, there are already stalls, so why should it matter who is in the next stall if they are not harassing you? I live in the US and stalls have huge gaps on the bottom and top of the walls which I hate, so there is little privacy anyway regardless who else is in the restroom. As for locker rooms, you are changing in front of random strangers to begin with. Why should it matter who that stranger is? I think locker rooms should also have stalls because there are people who are uncomfortable changing in front of others regardless of the sex of everyone in the facility. This would solve a lot of issues.

Also, we consider trans women a group of women, not a group of men.

[–]Penultimate_Penance[S] 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You do acknowledge that transwomen have male bodies right?

One of the benefits of single sex spaces is that I know I am sharing it with other people who also have female bodies and know what it is like to have one. This is especially important for teenage girls who are dealing with menstruation. The last thing they need is to be harassed by boys or god forbid grown ass creepy men when dealing with very personal strictly female bodily functions.

A far too high percentage of male bodied people engage in unacceptable behaviors ranging from leering, unsolicited sexual/inappropriate comments, flashing, invading personal space, groping, stalking, placing cameras in locker rooms and bathrooms then posting the videos online to full on sexual assault/rape/murder. As a general rule of thumb women aka female bodied people don't do this shit. Roughly statistically men are 95% more likely to engage in those kinds of behaviors, hence the need for single sex spaces, because women shouldn't have to tolerate the above listed behaviors in any way shape or form.

Transwomen are not special. They have the same likelihood as any other male bodied person to engage in these atrocious behaviors hence why we should not make an exception for them. It's basic safeguarding that massively benefits 50% of the population, so absolutely worth it to keep these spaces single sex.