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[–]censorshipment 6 insightful - 7 fun6 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Women are smeared as bigots for suggesting that females who have been raped and abused by males may find it distressing to be sheltered alongside biological males, regardless of how they identify. Proponents of smearing these women ultimately believe it is more important to validate the false notion that males can become literal females than it is to provide a sense of physical and psychological safety for female rape victims. Men's feelings have become more important than women's safety.

The idea of "third spaces" for transgender-identified persons—including a space such as the Ross-Aoki House—is a solution that numerous groups have offered when defending women's right to sex-segregated spaces. But when the idea is presented as a means to save existing female-only spaces, it is (predictably) deemed transphobic. Again, this boils down to the goal of trans activism, which is to validate the identity and feelings of (usually) males, at the expense of females.

...when feminism comes back to bite women in the ass. The men's and trans rights activists are cheering. Marc Lépine is dancing in his grave.

[–]jet199 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You don't even realise we wouldn't even have refuges without feminists.

They weren't gifted to us from on high they were set up by women's groups from scratch with money raised from the community and didn't exist at all until the 1970s.

Before that abused women were expected to just put up with it until they were killed. Indeed when the first refuges were opened there was a lot of campaigning against them from people who thought that was the natural order.

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think that younger women have no idea that their ancestresses had to fight for basic human rights.

For instance, bathrooms - women had to fight for bathrooms in order to leave the home for any length of time and participate in the public sphere. Lack of toilet access is referred to as the "urinary leash." Women all over the world are still fighting for bathrooms.

In the US, even women Kamala Harris's age would have encountered legal discrimination against women.

[–]aloris342 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, and I'm wondering if there is a way to pin this research as this would be good for those of us trying to convince others that women and girls really do need sex-segregated bathrooms.