No I am not content to do that, I have said consistently for years that I am not, most recently
here, 9 days ago.
It is, however, allowed in many places. And while it is fine, and to be supported, to campaign to change this, I do not believe it is the case than every trans woman who wishes to use female only settings, and does use such where permitted, is a predator, behaving as a predator, preying on women, pick one. I believe it is transphobic intolerance to think so or declare it to be so in the general case.
As before, I do not.
But I do not suppose that all trans women who wish to access female settings are narcissistic or autogynaephilic or misogynistic or other things like these. Many are, plain and simple, people who want to be female, believe they are female, identify as female, have a gender identity of female, pick one.
EC reminded me I hadn't picked up on this post. There are a number of subtly different points here which need to be picked apart.
First, I have never claimed that every transwoman is a predator, in the sense that I would normally understand the word. The problem is that some are, and not only that, transwomen as a demographic in general have some quite alarming statistics. As noted above, they are imprisoned for sex crimes at a rate
565 times greater than the equivalent rate for women, and even about
five times the equivalent rate for other men. Not only that, the type of offences is clearly male-pattern offending (rape, grooming, stalking, solo assault of adult strangers etc.) as opposed to female-pattern (child victims, usually within the family, and/or offences committed together with a male partner). Even if we generously allow that half of these imprisoned transwomen are feigning a trans identity to get into a women's prison, that still leaves a sex-offending rate
283 times that of women, and
two-and-a-half times that of other men.
Given all that, how exactly are women meant to tell which transwomen are benign and which not? They all look like men. How can we somehow allow the nice ones in but keep out the problematic ones?
Second, every transwoman who knows that he will be read as male by women (which is nearly all of them) knows that his presence in a female single-sex space (whether or not that has been sanctioned by some woke administrator) is likely to cause distress and alarm to at least some of the women in there. If not the first time he goes in, eventually. They go in anyway, because the gratification they get from doing that means more to them than avoiding causing alarm and distress to women who see a man in the space they had counted on to be male-free.
If you want to regard that as predatory behaviour, then yes, they all are.
Third, if you think this is as simple as "people who want to be female, believe they are female, identify as female, have a gender identity of female, pick one" you really have not investigated this in any depth.
There is no such thing as a female brain in a male body. There is no such thing as a female soul the stork mistakenly put into a baby boy. There are two overwhelming reasons for men to identify as trans, plus a couple of other causes that are pretty rare (although that poor man who has been approved for euthanasia in the Netherlands is one of the rarities). And of the two common reasons, the big majority in western countries is autogynaephilia.
Not all AGP men are nasty, domineering, demanding narcissists who like to bully women. That's just the leaders of the trans-activist movement. Some of them are relatively restrained and even somewhat considerate. But they're not considerate enough to refrain from colonising women's spaces and categories, because that's where they get their thrills.
This article is a good introduction to the issue, and it also covers the reasons for girls identifying as trans, which are different. There is more literature of course, and naturally you'll find the things the TRAs have published to try to discredit it, but it's the real deal.
Gender dysphoria is not one thing
I think it was a huge mistake for the psychologists to decide (without asking women) that men could be trained to behave in single-sex spaces, and to proceed to do that, and to sanction them going into women's spaces once they had had the instruction. That was the thin end of the wedge, and now here we are, no considerate behaviour is required, no attempt to pass as a woman is required, and no paperwork is required.
Maybe there are some transwomen (AGP and all) who are shy and considerate and try their best not to upset women. But sorry, they're men too and they shouldn't be there. And I am developing nothing but contempt for women (including I fear my best friend) who are so concerned with the comfort of this demographic that they accede to opening our protected spaces to men.
If a few benign transwomen not getting what they want is the price of our single-sex spaces being reliably single-sex again, so that we won't be distressed and alarmed by a burly great bloke in lipstick and a bad wig and a face covered in stubble, and we know we can ask a man to leave without being accused of a hate crime, then so be it.
