It still think it's odd that if you take sports segregation, segregation of private but publically accessible spaces like rest rooms and locker rooms, and pronouns off the table there is absolutely nothing here to discuss.
To be fair, I think there's nothing else that needs to be discussed here, but in the broader culture in the USA there are issues.
I'm still a solid dozen pages behind here, but no... this isn't all that needs to be discussed. These, in my opinion, are the red herrings. Each has some merit in its own, but these aren't the larger issues.
It's easy to bring up bathrooms and scoff, because nobody with an ounce of critical thinking should be overly concerned about toilet usage. That makes it simple to erect the specter of the evil right-wing religious hate-filled zealot. It's easy to bring up sports, because no-one who has ever experienced actual reality could pretend that there's not a real and meaningful physical difference between the capabilities of male and female bodies. There's no challenge in lampooning that topic.
The larger issues, however, get glossed over or simply dismissed. They get swept under the rug and sacrificed to the back-and-forth over who gets to pee where.
These are issues around equality and safety for females.
Females are under-represented in leadership and politics. We fought for the right to be recognized as equal participants in our society over a hundred years ago. Despite being more than half of the population, we have far less than half the voice in determining our societies. Now, with the 'progress' made by the trans-activist agenda, we're losing what forward momentum we had. Positions held for females, to encourage equality and equity, are now being granted to male-bodied people, who have the lived experience of males. All under the auspices of a propagandistic slogan that these males are so indistinguishable form females that they can accurately and appropriately represent the interests and needs of females and speak for us. Let me make that clearer: females are being told that their interests as females are best represented by males.
Females experience abhorrent rates of sexual violence, almost all of which is perpetrated by males. Those assaults are rarely prosecuted, and frequently aren't even reported. This is a problem that has gone on for most of human history, and can be observed across every society. Escaping an abusive relationship, where one party has a physical advantage over the other complements of being a sexually dimorphic species, is a challenge with little support. Now, with the assistance of the trans-activist agenda, male-bodied prisoners with histories of violence against females and children can be housed in female prisons populations, on the basis of their claim to be women in their souls. Male-bodied prisoners cite their constant fear of assault from other male prisoners, and the toll it takes on their mental health as justification for them being placed in a position where the other prisoners have no safety from
them. The risk of harm to those transgender prisoners is seen as being far more important than the risk of harm to females. Additionally, the trans-activist agenda insists that shelters and refuges for raped and abused females must allow male-bodied people to enter those premises, solely on the claim that they feel like a woman in their minds. The traumatized survivors of rape and violence must accept these male-bodied and male-appearing people into their midst with no complaint, on fear of being labeled a bigot. The risk of harm to the feelings of the transgender males is considered far more important than the trauma and health (not to mention the safety) of the females seeking shelter.
For nearly a century, females have fought to be recognized as fully-fledged humans in our own rights, with our own thoughts and interests, rather than as appendages for males. We've fought, and continue to fight, against repressive stereotypes of what a "proper" woman should be. We've been called domineering where a male would be called dominant; we've been labeled bitch where a male would be labeled boss; we've been scolded as controlling where a male would be commanding. We've had to walk the fine line between being dismissed for being too masculine and assertive... and being accused of using our 'feminine wiles' to advance in our careers. And the outfit we wear? It's a
suit, not a
pant-suit. Now, with the risk of the trans-ideology, we see those stereotypes being reinforced and embraced as the hallmarks of gender. We see the insistence that pink sparkly things are the true identifiers of womanliness.
We have fought, and continue to fight, to be treated with respect rather than as an object for the male sexual gaze. We've fought against having our personal boundaries pushed aside, at being cat-called, at being sexualized. We've fought to be recognized as humans with minds capable of far, far more than merely providing a sexual outlet for males. Yet the trans agenda embraces sissy-porn, stripper-couture, and the image of a female as a mindless receptacle as the highest calling of a woman. So much so, that a male-borne and male-raised transwoman gets lauded for a book in which she argues that the very essence of femaleness is being “an open mouth, an expectant *******, blank, blank eyes”.
Throughout human history, females have been systematically dominated and oppressed as a result of our biology. We've been treated as chattel and the property of males, in order to ensure the progression of their bloodlines by controlling our bodies. We've been viewed as breeding stock. We have pushed back against this for ages. Yet now, we are referred to as "uterus havers" and "menstruators" and "people with cervixes", all to avoid incurring the wrath and injured feelings of males who identify as women. We have lost the right to be referred to as
women, and have been reduced to a collection of reproductive organs.
If you think that toilets and sports and pronouns are the only things to be discussed in this conflict, you really haven't been paying attention to what the females around you have been saying.
