ColonizationTrans person posts on "actuallesbians": "I'm a cis lesbian and transphobia hurts all women." Elsewhere identifies as non-cis and posts in bisexualteens

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[–]mvmlego 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I thought the person's original point was a decent one, though. It seems plausible that campaigns to get transwomen out of women's bathrooms could result in butch lesbians being mistakenly identified as men/transwomen and being harassed.

EDIT: that doesn't mean that transwomen should be allowed in women's spaces, but the potential problems caused by oversensitive transdar (i.e. The trans equivalent of gaydar. Is that a thing?) are still worth keeping in mind.

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

It seems plausible that campaigns to get transwomen out of women's bathrooms could result in butch lesbians being mistakenly identified as men/transwomen and being harassed.

Possible but unlikely. A person's biological sex is a lot easier to guess than their sexual orientation, because it has way more impact on their physical features.

I don't mind talking about that particular issue, but the thing is, this person wasn't interested in any constructive debate-- they made sweeping generalizations and if proved wrong, moved on to other "what about ___?" questions. And, this is not really a debate sub anyway. Have you seen s/GCdebatesQT? This might actually be a good question to post to them.