@TheArbourist Either ANY female has the right to exclude ANY male from ANY woman's space, or ANY male has the right to ID into ANY woman's space.
It cant be both
@tylerblack32 The word we have for female humans who’ve reached adulthood is “woman” = anybody who calls themselves a woman is calling themselves an adult female human. If you know you’re male & you call yourself a woman then you’re lying. 👍
If someone asks “should HE be allowed in women’s only spaces?”, the answer is easy. If they ask “should SHE be allowed in women’s only spaces?” the answer is also easy, but it’s the opposite answer as the first. This is why ceding the pronoun game is a big mistake
There are many circumstances in which I believe refusing to accurately describe the sex of a person is at best confusing and at worst dangerous. Indulging a quasi-religious ideology over clear language and objective facts has already had disastrous consequences in the contexts of safeguarding, sport, medicine and crime.
But I have exclusive rights over my own choice of language. As Mark Twain said: 'I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.' Both trans activists and GC people who get angry that I'm deviating from their own hard and fast language rules are demanding that I respect things that are sacred to them, but not to me.
Trying to dictate how other people express themselves provides a delicious opportunity to chide and correct and to demonstrate one's own purity and righteousness - as indeed you're currently demonstrating - but they achieve nothing except making the language police feel good about themselves. Back in the real world, women's rights remain under attack and it will continue to take time, money and concrete action to defend them. You may feel that the priority is establishing black and white pronoun rules. I happen to disagree.
@SwipeWright Surely it couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that a detransitioner just won a $2 million lawsuit in NY 🤷♂️ https://t.co/u3ScbotKq1
@ConceptualJames That’s because all the groups who insist their existence is based in victimhood gain power in doing so, & every one can see it - if you can claim to be a victim of the Holocaust, or slavery, or homophobia, or transphobia, etc. you get social capital from atleast 50% of people
@Seeker__Of @JasonBeeYorn The Earth has a circumference of 24,000 miles. That means, at a rate of 1000 mph, it takes a whole 24 hours to do one 360 degree rotation. Have you ever seen something take an entire 24 hours to spin around one time? How fast was it going?
@HelenWebberley It’s also our job to teach them. For example, teaching boys to respect women’s (and girls) boundaries, the difference between men’s & women’s health, women’s history/women’s rights, or even what a lesbian is. Can’t do any of that unless we know what a woman is 👍
@tammydiamonds Actually, nothing debases Judaism more than Zionism. Imagine attaching a military to a religion & expecting the religion to remain about “spirituality”.
Epic fail
@nyaraVT The words man/woman indicate the sex of an adult human. When a male human (aka man) calls himself a woman he is denying that he’s a male human, and claiming to be a female human.
Hope this helps