Recent news revealed somewhere in Chicago a school or university (can’t recall) voted on allowing trans women to use female spaces such as toilets and changing rooms. Whilst the latter is controversial as apparently some situations entail complete nudity, the fuss about toilets, an ongoing one internationally for years, seems way overblown.

Some points rad fems make regarding the differences between men and women are completely accurate.

One would be the futility of women competing in sports against people with male bodies, which give them a demonstrable advantage. Another one would be putting sex offenders with male bodies, who offended against biological women in the past, in the same prison cells as biological women. There are surely many issues to discuss here.

It appears they are also correct regarding the current cultural fad of encouraging gay youngsters to think they were born in the wrong bodies and transition to the opposite sex, to the best possible extent. The sheer number of young people, particulalry women, detransitioning nowadays after spending a few years living as male, is proof of that.

They are also right, as most people (including many trans people) assert, that children are not mature enough to make decisions which will severely impact the rest of their lives, such as going on hormones or removing their genitalia.

However.

The concerns of rad fems don’t necessarily come from a good place. They seem to think everyone sporting a penis is a likely perpetrator of violence against biological women. Everyone, at all times.

That’s messed up and should not be the rationale behind any policies made around this delicate issue. Surely teaching young women that every biological male around them is likely to attack them, to the point of hysteria, is not a good idea.

Does gender segregation deter actual pervs?

I don’t think so. If they are so detached from reality they think spying on people in such places is acceptable, why would they care about any laws?

Sure, there are the Yanivs of the world, visibly taking advantage of being able to use these spaces. But they are few and far between, and one can obviously report them if they are caught doing such things.

Becoming hysterical about people wanting to use a toilet stall for two minutes is just uncivilised, counter-productive and unnecessary.

We now see an uncanny alliance between rad fems and conservatives, just based on this issue – though otherwise countering each other with every breath.

It has become a black and white issue, an all-or-nothing situation – vocal activists for trans rights militate for no diferentiation to be made between the sexes at all, whilst conservatives and rad fems argue trans people should not be accepted in any circumstance, which affects all trans people, regardless of what they think about these campaigns.

Why can’t people discuss things rationally anymore, decide what they agree on and take it from there?

It has basically been reduced to “sex doesn’t matter, ever” versus “all biological males are threats to women at all times”. Neither of these assertions are based in reality; they are based on feelings and ideologies.

Is it just me who thinks it’s weird to obsess over the genitalia of everyone you come across, ever for a few seconds?

The only context this matters in, apart from the situations described above, is your interaction with the person’s actual genitalia, or physical intimacy in the first place.

I’d like to think we can interact with people without prioritising what’s in their pants. A question for a rad fem would be, when she interacts with her brother or cousin, does she think about his dick much? Hopefully not.

It bugs me because there are people genuinely living with gender dysphoria, and for them the best thing as shown so far is to transition. Of course there are many false positives nowadays as well, due to the constant encouragement in the media, in certain schools etc. Does the justifiable concern over the false positives have to include stigmatising trans people altogether?