For people who think bathrooms should be segregated by birth sex, are passing trans men entitled to use the women's bathroom?

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[–]adungitit 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you think conservatives and radical feminists will be okay with trans men who pass using the women's bathroom and not harass them at all?

Women fearing male presence in their spaces and policing female spaces to keep men out is not "harassment".

This problem would be easily solved if people's IDs accurately reflected their sex. Women are right to call you out if they think you're a man violating their spaces, and you could clear this misunderstanding by confirming you are female. Your argument is like saying that we shouldn't have any restrictions on selling alcohol and cigarettes to minors because a small number of kids can be mistaken for adults.

[–]Omina_SentenziosaSarcastic Ovalord 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, pretty much. I think there could still be cases in which some women would wonder why "a man" is in a women' s bathroom, but if we all had the certainty that only females were allowed in women' s spaces, then not only most of those complainers would probably stop having issues, but also, they would be silenced immediately because those male-presenting-women would have the same rights as them to be there.

As long as we allow sanctioned lies on official documents, problems will keep happening.

[–]adungitit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As more women become gender-nonconforming (which is a good thing), I have no doubt we will see these misunderstandings happen more and more. Misunderstandings don't render sexed spaces unnecessary or ineffectual, however.