Easy Mode
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That if-then logical fallacy is not good for women, who lose legal protection and representation when biological sex is a category open to personal interpretation informed by trans Reddit mods. Under gender self-ID, there is one kind of woman, born female, protected and regulated for her reproductive biology, and born male, whether he keeps his penis or has it removed, though the chances of that are between 5 and 13 percent. Woman and self-ID transwoman are one, impossible to differentiate by any criteria, and equal in women’s rights and protections, including single-sex spaces.
Single-sex spaces exist because even a casual glance at arrest and conviction records shows that allowing men to share public facilities with women is dangerous to women, especially women prisoners. Nicola Sturgeon might admit, after a bottle of wine, that self-ID is unpopular when it rapes women and puts on a wig to dodge getting locked up with other men. Scotland thought so when it asked her if a double rapist, self-IDing after he got caught, was a woman or a fraud opting into Easy Mode jail, where the women can’t get away.
The shortly thereafter ex-First Minister was backed into a corner by the question of a double rapist’s womanhood. It was hard going, as ‘woman’ is now an undefinable and exclusionary term in trans ideology, except of course for transwomen, who are women because they are women.
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The my-way-or-the-highway branding “Transwomen are Women” does not work for women. It is high fantasy that any man who cares to enter a single-sex space with women and girls can do so without diminishing the privacy, dignity and safety of those women and girls.
The idea that any man deserves access to any female space is pure misogynistic resentment. To the aggrieved male, women have shot right past equality and on into privilege over him, attacking his status with diversity hiring, assembling without men, and failing to defer.
The men who use self-ID access to publicly flaunt a fetish or opportunistically harm women and girls far outnumber the tiny population of genuinely dysphoric men for whom medical transition is a legitimate treatment. It is not feasible, however, for women to attempt to separate them at the changing room door.
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