Well, I hope I don't have to explain on a sceptic's board why "what people I know think" doesn't trump a survey with good methodology when it comes to determining what the views held by a particular population are.
And I wish I didn't have to remind you on a skeptic's board that you actually have to listen to what other people are saying, but I know from experience I do, so let's revisit.
The whole conversation is you going on about transwomen don't cause problems. Leaving aside whether or not that is true for the moment, I am emphasizing that women consider men to be problematic. Note that the sentence does not contain the word "trans" in it. Women have problems with voyeurism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault by men. That's not exactly a controversial statement is it? You're with me so far, right?
(At this point, sometimes some stupid people want to jump in and say something stupid like...."Oh yeah? Well someiimes women harass women and...." For anyone tempted to type that, please stop. It's stupid.)
That's what I was talking about when you asked for "evidence". Evidence? You need evidence that men cause problems for women? How about asking any woman who has ever lived if that happens?
In fact, it's so obvious that I have to take the charitable interpretation that it wasn't clear that I was talking about ordinary interaction between ordinary men and women. That can get lost in the back and forth sometimes. You must not have realized that's what I meant, because no one could seriously question it. So, I've emphasized again, things like sexual harassment are a problem, and they are mostly inflicted on women by men.
In fact, those things are sufficiently problematic that we create laws, customs, and social conventions to minimize those problems. Right? We have separate bathrooms. We keep our clothes on around the opposite sex except for intimate occasions, or in very closely controlled circumstances. (i.e. whether it's strip bars or clothing optional resorts, there are people whose job it is to watch out for troublemakers, because you know they will be there.) We let people know at what point their enjoyment of a lady's features becomes creepy.
And, I was emphasizing that although rape is not a constant in women's lives, awareness of the possibility of rape is. The fact that people will harass women, try to peep, and even rape women is a very real and ever present thought for women. Again, you don't need a study for that. You just need a minimum of social awareness.
So, what I was saying is that self-ID, and other forms of trans-accommodation chip away at that system of protections and customs that have been erected for the safety and comfort of women. Yes, comfort matters. A guy seeing a girl naked is not, all by itself, a safety threat, and yet every single woman seems to want to control the circumstances in which guys see them naked. Sorry, I can't cite a journal article for that. I guess it's just anecdotal.
Trans-accommodation, when taken to the extreme, as self-ID provisions do, creates situations where there is a person who is large, like a man typically is, and strong, like a man typically is, and has a fully functioning penis that could make a normal woman pregnant, as a man typically has, and yet, we are told, that if the presence of such a person in a normally private space makes a woman uncomfortable, then the woman is a bigot for not accepting that the muscular, penis-equipped person is really a woman.
