There's a year's worth of stories in line ahead of these. No cuttsies.
I would ask what relevance they have, though. A reader might think you had no reason at all to post these other than to post the worst actors out of millions and extrapolate 'that they are all like this'. If the reader was on a skeptics forum, they would scoff and point out the logical fallacy in doing so.
But thats not fair to you.That would be naked bigotry.
You know perfectly well why we post these articles. They illustrate the very high prevalence of sexual exhibitionism, sex offending and in particular child sex offending among trans-identified men, something which has been known about since approximately forever, but which suddenly we're supposed not to notice. We can go back over the stats in relation to convictions for sex offending in men, trans-identifying men and women again, if you like, since you absolutely refused to get your brain around them first time around.
Other men sexually offend too of course. And this is not OK. But other men are not being given carte blanche to enter women's intimate spaces, or at least, to avail themselves of this they do have to say the magic words "I identify as a woman".
The pattern of offending and offensive behaviour between these men who claim to be women and actual women is markedly different. You'll scour the internet for months to find more than a few cases of women accused of or convicted of sexual offences, and when you find them the nature of the offences is very different. In most cases the woman is acting as the catspaw of a man, either assisting him to commit rape, or acquiring images of children for a paedophile. Others are of older women seducing underage but still post-puberty boys.
The point of this is to rub your face in the reality that these are the men you are advocating for, these are the men you want to have free access to women's intimate spaces, with the women compelled to accept them on pain of being called a bigot at best and being charged with a hate crime at worst. "They're all like this"? Who knows. There are way too many of them (although even "none" would still not be a reason to expect women to accept any men in their intimate spaces).
I don't care how many shy vulnerable trans-identifying men there are. I have my own opinion on that. The point is that their wishes should not be pandered to at the expense of forcing women to treat this large cohort of bloody perverts as fellow-women. However shy and vulnerable they are, they're men, and they're not women's problem to solve, or they should not be. All men need to stay out of women's spaces to keep the perverts, the porn-sick and the abusers out.
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