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[–]BEB 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

We should never have given them the toilets (I personally didn't) because that allowed them to normalize their presence in spaces where women were partially-clothed or otherwise vulnerable.

To women who say that having TIMs in the bathroom doesn't bother them, I always say, "If you're not bothered by a male in the bathroom, go in the men's rooms. Consent is not transferable."

I love to throw Lib Fem jargon in there to make their heads spin, like: It is not OK for men to COLONIZE our spaces and the language used to describe us, nor for men to APPROPRIATE our biology and our oppression.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We didn't give them the toilets. They just barged in and took 'em. The people who gave them permission to do so were the sexologists and therapists like Ray Blanchard who told these men to go "live as women" for a couple of years, then they could get approved for surgeries. But neither Blanchard nor any of the other male psychologists, psychiatrists, surgeons, hormone doctors etc ever bothered to consult any women about it. The idea of asking women if we were okay with having men invade our spaces never occurred to any of them.