On a post about Great Britains sex-based spaces laws that was painted as trans people being “banned” from public restrooms, I pointed out that they are not banned, they just have to use the ones that are for their sex.
Nothing incorrect there. 100% factually correct. Sex and gender are constantly spoken about as being separate things now, since sex is not changeable (despite what the person who replied thinks)
I was then permanently banned for “transphobia”:
Do they even understand what a phobia is?
Sex is changeable though. It’s called a sex-change surgery for a reason. Many transgender people get those surgeries to align their physical sex with their gender.
Sex is not changeable. Your sex is hard coded in every single cell of your body. It can never be changed. No amount of hormones or surgeries can change your sex.
Notice how Mr. Science over here doesn’t have a single citation for this nonsense assertion.
Is that your PROFESSIONAL OPINION, Doc?
gender is changeable. sex is not. surgery cannot change DNA. that is not how biology works.
the only thing you can do is make yourself look the way you want. you do not become that sex, however.
I guarantee you that 99.9% of those calling for transgender bathroom bans wouldn’t respect their gender either; for a transgender woman complying with the bathroom ban, they wouldn’t say ‘she went into the men’s bathroom’.
The issue at hand is neither DNA nor biology; those pushing to force transgender people into spaces based on birth assignment are transphobic bigots who don’t care for a second about the harms their actions are causing.
There is no “birth assignment” of sex. Sex is observed. Sex is immutable.
I don’t want biological males, most of who are “fully intact”, going into changing rooms, saunas, bathrooms, etc with my daughters. They don’t want that either. That’s why they are sex-separated.
99% of all sexual assaults are committed by males. Transgender women are still males, and they still commit sexual assaults at the same rate as “cis” males.
99% (also, source?) of REPORTED sexual assaults are by men. Try and report a sexual assault done by a woman, you’ll be laughed out of the room. Interesting you chose “sexual assault” and not “rape,” btw, because in many jurisdictions the law is set up in such a way that women can’t be charged with rape only sexual assault. Again that’s assuming you can find one human to take that seriously, trust me nobody gives a shit when men are assaulted, truly nobody, males will laugh and call you gay for not liking it, women will outwardly say “well that sucks but who cares because it happens to women more” and judge you as weak behind your back because you opted for “just take it” instead of “physically defend yourself from your roommates girlfriend so now you have to explain to the police how actually you were defending yourself,” (and good fucking luck to ya if you picked the second option anyway, guess who’s going to jail that night). (Btw that was just the first time a woman did to me what would be considered rape if I did it to her, I’ve got more stories that nobody cares about, and I’m not alone.)
Basically what I’m trying to say is “fuck you and fuck your ‘not all men but always a man’ ass rhetoric.”
Also of note, most violent crime is actually Male V Male, no women in sight. You are more at risk in an all male bathroom than she is in a women’s room with a trans person, statistically. Good news is all violent crime has steadily fallen since 1993 and the sensationalist media making you scared for ratings actually has little basis in reality, hopefully that is comforting.
If you don’t believe transgender women are women, at least be honest and don’t pretend you’re not transphobic, just as someone who doesn’t believe in gay marriage is homophobic or someone who doesn’t like immigrants is xenophobic.
Transgender individuals are not disproportionately violent, and the notion that transgender women would enter women’s bathrooms to sexually assault cisgender women is solely a moral panic, not something that occurs with any frequency. On the contrary, transgender individuals are four times as likely to be sexually assaulted as cisgender individuals, something that is made worse if transgender women are forced into male spaces, particularly transphobic male spaces.
This idiot is just trying to retain plausable deniability so the admins won’t ban his ass.
Which by the way. @MrKaplan@lemmy.world This kind of person being on LW is not a good look for your server.
Looks like they got a home instance ban🙏.
Newsflash: the existence of trans people does not bring down the magical barrier keeping rapists out of bathrooms. There is no barrier, there never was. Rapists (of either sex) can enter the women’s bathroom at any time. If you want to protect your daughters then ideally they should have no contact with any males at all.
For the record, you are absolutely transphobic if you’re afraid of trans women in the bathroom.
I don’t think males are biologically predisposed to commiting more assault. I think it’s more of a social norms thing.
Sex is a contruct that relates to many things. When people talk about changing sex they refer to changing the external genitals or even just the biological changes that happen when taking HRT. Chromosomes laregly do not matter in this equation and a surprising amount of people have arrangements which don’t fit typical expectations, yet most of these people go their whole lives not even knowing.