Transwomen are not Women - Part 15

Up to a point.

Transwomen should not/should be allowed to use womens toilets 55/29
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/artic...-public-stand-on-transgender-rights-in-202425
Split of opposition is 57 male, 53 female; so not a significant difference.

When question clarified, transwomen who have not had surgery should not/should be allowed to use womens toilets 63/19


Here is a handy little gif comparing this survey from 2019/2020 and 2024/2025. It shows just how much the tide has turned in those five years...

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- The pluralities have ALL turned into majority disagree
- The equal split has turned into majority disagree
- One majority agree has flipped to majority disagree
- Nine majority agrees have turned into pluralities

and importantly, none of the points have trended the other way
 
Here is a handy little gif comparing this survey from 2019/2020 and 2024/2025. It shows just how much the tide has turned in those five years...

TIMS2020-2025.gif


- The pluralities have ALL turned into majority disagree
- The equal split has turned into majority disagree
- One majority agree has flipped to majority disagree
- Nine majority agrees have turned into pluralities

and importantly, none of the points have trended the other way
Thanks. You have posted this before. It will not be commented on, despite being so clear.
 
Seems to me it never says that.
Here is what it says:

Individuals are permitted to use restrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their identified gender or expression. Refusal to allow an individual to use the restroom or locker room consistent with his or her gender identity or expression would be unlawful under the LAD.​

From this, I conclude that all restrooms and locker rooms in the Garden State are considered suitable for members of both sexes, and that it would be illegal to forbid someone to enter a particular restroom or locker room based on their sex.

By that definition, just about anything is unisex.
Do you have a preferred definition in mind? Perhaps our confusion is that we are using different meanings.

Anyhow, in jurisdictions where public accommodations are allowed to sort by sex, there is no argument to be had that their facilities must—by law—be considered suitable for both sexes, so it would not be correct to call those facilities "unisex" even on the definition I provided.

There is a lot of talk about gender identity and expression, not a peep about the sex of restroom users.
Care to define gender identity without invoking sex?

ETA: Seems to me that the defining feature of a unisex space—as opposed to a single sex space—is what happens when you complain to management about having more than one sex in that space. Female patrons at Wi Spa discovered that what they thought was a single-sex space was actually considered suitable for both sexes, and they found that out at the front desk when it was explained to them that they were expected (by law and policy) to share their space with males.
 
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This is incorrect. I can falsely identify.
Not under self ID, you can't. Not in any way that matters. Your identity is whatever you say it is. No one can second guess you.
I do not have a gender identity that would allow me to use the ladies' room.
Under self ID, that's only because you choose not to.
If I say that I do, I am falsely identifying myself.
According to who? You're the only one who can say that your own declared identity is false.
People are confusing "Who is permitted?" with "How can you tell?"
Under self ID, if you say you are the appropriate gender, then you can enter. And anyone can say they are any gender they want to. Ergo, anyone can enter any bathroom they want to. You might choose not to, but that's a choice on your part. This absolutely is about who is permitted, and not how can you tell, because the way to tell a person's gender under self ID is whatever a person says. So it's actually quite easy to tell someone's gender, according to the self ID rules.
But it has a great deal to do with whether I would exercise that ability. I wouldn't. Because I have no desire to.
Not relevant to the claim.
 
If you want to be unreasonably pedantic, yes. Being unreasonably pedantic is rarely the best way to solve a genuinely vexing issue.
I'm not being pedantic, I'm pointing out that there have to be some common sense exceptions/considerations, which will include answering questions about how the female-only policy is enforced.
 
To make it easier for the less educated to understand. It worked, didn't it?
You think incompetently using formal notation makes your bad arguments more understandable? No, it's just kind of clownish.

You did. You said "the error lies in the potentiality confusion". This means that in actuality, you dismissed their factuality.
No. The problem was with the inference, not the propositions.

If I assert that anyone can learn to carry out a particular task, your saying that you "can think of at least two" people who aren't going to carry out that task does not negate my assertion.
Because it's an assertion about potential. You need to deal with the actual.

If I need a doctor's note to be excused from work, and I can get a doctor's note (because I really am sick), I'm still going to need to actually get the doctor's note to be excused. It's not sufficient for me to say I "Well, I could get one. Job done."
 
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Not under self ID, you can't. Not in any way that matters.
I can, and it does matter, because it drives behavior.

Under self ID, that's only because you choose not to.
No. I don't, in fact, have a female gender identity. That's something that's true about the world. I cannot choose to feel like a woman (at least, not in the ordinary sense). I can only choose to lie about it.

I can, if I wish to, choose to have sex only with men. That wouldn't change my sexual orientation, even if you can't tell the difference.

According to who? You're the only one who can say that your own declared identity is false.
According to me, and that's just the nature of subjective truths.

Under self ID, if you say you are the appropriate gender, then you can enter. And anyone can say they are any gender they want to. Ergo, anyone can enter any bathroom they want to.
Yes. They can, if they want to.. At least some don't want to. Therefore, they can't (at least, not for this reason).

This absolutely is about who is permitted, and not how can you tell, because the way to tell a person's gender under self ID is whatever a person says.
Immediately self-contradictory.

Not relevant to the claim.
It is relevant. Because it's relevant to who will identify themselves as women--not me.
 
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Here is what it says:

Individuals are permitted to use restrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their identified gender or expression. Refusal to allow an individual to use the restroom or locker room consistent with his or her gender identity or expression would be unlawful under the LAD.​

From this, I conclude that all restrooms and locker rooms in the Garden State are considered suitable for members of both sexes, and that it would be illegal to forbid someone to enter a particular restroom or locker room based on their sex.
Not sure how you made the jump from gender identity and expression to sex? NJ law certainly makes the distinction without ambiguity. From NJLAD, p8,rr (da Big Kahuna of discrimination law):

""Gender identity or expression" means having or being perceived as having a gender related identity or expression whether or not stereotypically associated with a person's assigned sex at birth."


Sex and gender ID/expression are definitionally not equivalent or interchangeable in this context, and that's something I have been bitching about for a while now. Somewhere along the line, gender got equated to sex but on select fire, despite being specified as different from sex in law.
Do you have a preferred definition in mind? Perhaps our confusion is that we are using different meanings.
I'd say something more along the lines of 'intended for use by both sexes'.
Anyhow, in jurisdictions where public accommodations are allowed to sort by sex, there is no argument to be had that their facilities must—by law—be considered suitable for both sexes, so it would not be correct to call those facilities "unisex" even on the definition I provided.
Yes, but it could be argued that a typical women's rest room is suitable for both sexes, hence unisex by your interpretation? I can't see anything that makes it unsuitable for males. Urinals are hardly necessary for suitability. Sooooo... by your own preferred definition...?

How seriously do we take the assertion that the sign on the door is the determinant of suitability?
Care to define gender identity without invoking sex?
No need. They are related ideas and definitionally intertwined.
ETA: Seems to me that the defining feature of a unisex space—as opposed to a single sex space—is what happens when you complain to management about having more than one sex in that space.
Seems to me the defining feature is that both sexes should be expected to using the amenity.
Female patrons at Wi Spa discovered that what they thought was a single-sex space was actually considered suitable for both sexes, and they found that out at the front desk when it was explained to them that they were expected (by law and policy) to share their space with males.
I might have mentioned that what was disclosed in advance to patrons of the Wi Spa is still unknown at this point, years later, and what they thought could very well be nothing more than their not paying attention. 'Cubana Angel' and her posse could very well be nothing more than entitled Karens that expect the stated policy to not apply to their expectations.
 
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I'm not being pedantic, I'm pointing out that there have to be some common sense exceptions/considerations, which will include answering questions about how the female-only policy is enforced.

What's wrong with the way it's traditionally been enforced, i.e. women having the right to raise the alarm in the certain knowledge that (a) anyone within earshot will assist them in ejecting the male interloper, and (b) they won't end up in court charged with a hate crime. No objections likely to the three year old boy brought in by his mother (or even the polite and well behaved transgender male), only to the flasher getting his jollies.
 
What's wrong with the way it's traditionally been enforced, i.e. women having the right to raise the alarm in the certain knowledge that (a) anyone within earshot will assist them in ejecting the male interloper, and (b) they won't end up in court charged with a hate crime. No objections likely to the three year old boy brought in by his mother (or even the polite and well behaved transgender male), only to the flasher getting his jollies.
If you're talking about a flasher in a bathroom, that's a criminal act independent of who is permitted. There's no need for a female-only policy to deal with that.

I'd say the most obvious problem is that, traditionally, there were not a lot of openly transgender people in the world. Their existence in greater numbers today creates more suspicion, which results in more incidents of harassment (or worse), including for people who aren't trans. You can turn back the policy clock, but you can't turn back the demographic clock, at least not without going full fash.
 
I can, and it does matter, because it drives behavior.
Lots of things drive behavior. That's not the issue. The issue is whether you can actually keep anyone out once you accept self ID. And you cannot. Which makes bathrooms de facto unisex under self ID. Some males may choose not to enter, but all of them may.
 
If you're talking about a flasher in a bathroom, that's a criminal act independent of who is permitted. There's no need for a female-only policy to deal with that.
There wasn't when female only spaces actually were female only spaces, so any male present was automatically in the wrong. If certain males are permitted, i.e. it's now a mixed sex space, and all the flasher has to do is put it away before the assistance arrives, that's a very different situation.

Do you really think females are still going to be just as willing to raise the alarm when they know there's a real possibility they are going to be the ones who are judged to be in the wrong? Women usually avoid confrontations with stroppy, entitled males who are bigger and stronger than they are. Women like Sandie Peggie are very much the exception.

I'd say the most obvious problem is that, traditionally, there were not a lot of openly transgender people in the world. Their existence in greater numbers today creates more suspicion, which results in more incidents of harassment (or worse), including for people who aren't trans. You can turn back the policy clock, but you can't turn back the demographic clock, at least not without going full fash.

The most obvious problem is that the demands of a tiny percentage of males are suddenly being giving priority over the privacy and dignity of all females.
 
If you're talking about a flasher in a bathroom, that's a criminal act independent of who is permitted. There's no need for a female-only policy to deal with that.
If an exhibitionist male walks into a sex-segregated women's restroom and removes his trousers, that's indecent exposure, and both law and custom are on the side of any woman who tells him to get out before she calls the police. Indeed, she doesn't even have to wait for him to begin to disrobe. The moment he shows his face, he can be kicked out.

On the other hand, if an exhibitionist male walks into a gender-segregated women's restroom and begins to disrobe, all he has to do is say he identifies as a woman, and there's nothing the women in the restroom can do about it. In fact, if they even try, then law and custom is on the side of the exhibitionist.

The distinguishing characteristic of a sex-segregated women's restroom is that you don't need to wait for the male to start behaving badly, and you don't need to commit to a lengthy argument about whether they're behaving badly or not. You can just kick them out the moment they try to go in. Even better: the fact that law and custom are against them from the start deters a lot of opportunistic predators from even trying. This has been the status quo since women were first empowered by public restrooms. I have seen no reason to change the status quo. Not even to accommodate the preferences of a very small cohort of men that demand access regardless of how women feel.
 
Why are you bothering to (partially) ape mathematical notation here? To give yourself the imprimatur of learnedness? You can just use English.

Anyway, the error lies in the potentiality confusion in the quoted step. That someone can do something does not imply that they will.
I've got to disagree, there 8 billion people on Earth. If someone can do something, then someone will do it.
 

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