Intersex is totally different from trans. One is a vanishingly rare medical condition. A developmental abnormality. The other is a psychological issue. Don’t muddy the waters by trying to conflate the two.
Btw, it’s ‘hermaphrodite’.
( edited as I buggered up the quote)
There are also huge problems around things like single sex hospital wards. The NHS is turning itself inside out to be ‘inclusive’ and unfortunately it is throwing the baby out with the bath water in the process. For years single sex wards have been fought for and worked towards as a safeguarding and privacy and dignity measure. Now this is being thrown out as we are to allow male bodied (including male hormoned) people on female wards. Where women are at their most vulnerable.
Now I’m aware that not every man poses a risk and these male bodied people may have always been meek and mild in their daily life. However, illness, infection, medication, dehydration etc can cause confusion and sudden behavioural changes in patients (hyper sexualised, verbal or physical aggression etc). It’s not the fault of the patient but they pose a risk to themselves and others on the ward.
Or maybe one or more of the women on the ward have worries about men (previous DV, sexual violence or other harassment) and wouldn’t feel safe with a male on the ward? Why does the trans person’s rights trump theirs?
Don’t even get me started on prisons and the number of men ‘identifying’ their way out of male prisons and into women’s prisons where they can access hundreds of vulnerable women.
It is a disgrace and we are sleepwalking into it.
I know my spelling was horrible, the autocorrect line disappeared but it probably just gave up.
But just because I can’t spell hermaphrodite doesn’t mean I don’t know intersex isn’t the same as trans. I never claimed it was. But they compliment the understanding of each other. My point was the very fact it’s possible for someone to have variations of both genitalia shows how complicated gender is. Whoever said it’s a binary is wrong. A person can be born with male chromsomes , Fallopian tubes, and confidence they are a man, in that scenario why would we doubt them? As if anyone else can tell them what they should identify as? if someone else is born with a vagina but a certainty they are male why doubt them too?
This focus on the idea all these people are using trans to play the system In various ways is so absurd. Like it’s something you can just pick up when you need it ?
Right.
but thanks to the ‘spectrum’ the 40year old man ‘identifying as a woman’ in the first example may not be able to change in primary school changing rooms but he CAN change in communal swimming pool, gym etc facilities where the 7 year old girl is present, naked and very vulnerable.
This endless argument about changing rooms / bathrooms suddenly becoming ripe hunting grounds for trans predators i find very unconvincing.
First of all, that vulnerable naked 7 year old girl could easily be a vulnerable naked 7 year old boy - plenty of paedophiles go after boys, that’s not a shock to anyone. Are we going to close swimming pools entirely? No, that’s what their parents are there for- to look after sons OR daughters in public places. Whether the demographic of the changing room has shifted to include trans women in the ladies isn’t necessarily going to change anything. If there’s a predator, they haven’t appeared from nowhere and they aren’t going to disappear if trans women are NOT alllowed in female bathrooms. The only people negatively or positively impacted by the use of the bathrooms are the trans women who rely on the inclusivity. Everything else is not a direct cause.
In general this idea that all a predator needs is official access to the bathroom and then they are free to go on an assault spree that they wouldn’t have managed otherwise is absurd. No child, or woman, is about to be significantly less safe. Because what about all the other semi private places not separated by gender - a quiet corridor at the gym, a car park, the dark spot in the park, an underpass that’s always empty?... from the way people paint public bathrooms as a potential hive of trans predators, there are plenty of locations a
wannabe rapist of any gender alignment may lurk ....maybe the problem is with the rapists, not whether some of them were using bathrooms they gained access to along with tons non predatory trans women.
