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?

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    Something I always find fascinating is that people insist that sex is meaningful and yet almost nobody knows theirs. Instead what they know is what genitals they have and what their secondary sex characteristics are.

    Like OP, have you had your chromosomes tested? Do you actually know what sex you are, or are you basing that off how hormones have made your body develop?

    You were probably banned because it’s basically a transphobic talking point. Like you’re saying “Trans men aren’t banned from a toilet, a big hairy man with a fucking beard just needs to walk into the ladies”. The realistic outcome of that is violence, and visa versa for transwomen.

    In effect this is a defacto ban.

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      I’ve got my wife pregnant a few times, so….

      The amount of people that would be “surprised” to find they are the opposite sex to what they are is a rounding error. People like that almost always have under developed sexual organs and other dead giveaways that something isn’t quite right, which leads to testing - at least in the western world, they might ignore it in less advanced places.

      Also sex is meaningful. We don’t have separate women’s sporting events because of gender, but because of the physiological differences between the sexes.

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        I’ve got my wife pregnant a few times, so….

        You sound insufferable. How do you know you’re actually the father? Maybe she had sex with someone who doesn’t spend all day thinking about trans women’s penises.

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        What if you couldn’t get your wife pregnant though? Like if you were infertile and got tested and it turns out you’re XX with some quirk would you feel comfortable going to the ladies? Would that be a good outcome?

        You obviously wouldn’t, you’d just use the mens illegally (now).