On a post about Great Britains sex-based spaces laws that was painted as trans people being “banned” from public restrooms, I pointed out that they are not banned, they just have to use the ones that are for their sex.
Nothing incorrect there. 100% factually correct. Sex and gender are constantly spoken about as being separate things now, since sex is not changeable (despite what the person who replied thinks)
I was then permanently banned for “transphobia”:
Do they even understand what a phobia is?
No one claims that gender-affirming care changes X and Y chromosomes. Given that people’s reasons for excluding transgender people ultimately stem from transphobia and not chromosomes, they are entirely irrelevant to the discussion.
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Asking a transgender woman to use the men’s restroom or locker room is the same as calling her a man, and is therefore transphobic, full-stop. Moving around the goalposts of definitions to one’s liking doesn’t make it any less so.
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The ‘but there’s a unisex bathroom’ argument is just as transphobic, as it still falsely labels transgender women as men.
Given that the sexual assault argument is not backed up by a preponderance of real world sexual assaults, merely the theoretical fears of transphobes, basing access to such spaces on birth-assigned sex and not gender denies the real differences between cisgender and transgender individuals, causing the latter unnecessary social and physical harm in the process.
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Yes, biological essentialism is a form of transphobia. Whether you understand it or not. It is the excuse behind the bathroom bans being pushed out by the UK and many US states, and it actually kills people. By arguing that trans women should be segregated from cisgender women and put in with men because they are “biologically male” you are promoting transphobia.
I guess there’s one more place that you are excluded from now, but it’s not based on your gender. It’s based the fact you’re a TERF.
I’ve long suspected @[email protected] was either a TERF or a transmed but unfortunately she’s been really good at maintaining plausible deniability for a while so she hasn’t gotten banned for it yet.
Oof. Mic drop.
Almost no one in regular usage considers female or male as sexes separate from ‘woman’ or ‘man’ as genders in social situations; defining transgender people in that way is largely equating them with crossdressers.
If anything, those calling for bathroom bans are trying to erase the notion of gender as being separate from sex entirely as they by and large believe transgender women are men (and transgender men women), even if you don’t.
Ultimately, both positions deny transgender individuals equal status with the cisgender individuals they share a gender identity with, and are therefore both transphobic. It’s not possible to push for a bathroom ban without being transphobic.
Ultimately, sometimes it’s best just to agree to disagree.