Who Is Entering the Woman’s Change Room?
But there is a second reason that defining the trans population is highly relevant. When trans-advocates speak about access to women’s shelters, change rooms, bathrooms and sports teams, there is a tremendous opportunity for category sleight-of-hand. The trans-advocates may trot out fully transitioned transmen and transwomen as examples of those who should have access to their respective gendered facilities. The poster-child transwoman looks like a woman, and so any natural aversion that a biologically-female woman may have to a male in her showering, changing, or bathroom space is avoided. But this is a well-controlled illusion. It is, of course, not outright falsehood. The poster-child transwoman actually looks like that, and may have been accessing women’s bathrooms for years, largely without being noticed. But what the trans-advocates don’t want you to notice is what is going on in the other hand– that they are defining gender only by “sense” and that the person accessing the woman’s bathroom or shower may present as a man, look like a man, have male genitalia, and even have
male-pattern sexuality. There is at least one report of a
“woman” having an erection while in the women’s change-room. That won’t make the poster! If it were better known, biologic women would react with outright hostility, and policies and legislation like Bill C-16 would get swept away by a tsunami of opposition. The larger and more inclusive the trans group gets, the more problematic a Bill like C-16 gets.
So, here’s the problem for trans-advocates concerning the trans population in a nutshell; you can have your 0.6% and the political mess of erect penises in women’s change rooms along with it, or you can have your 0.01% prevalence and your poster-child transwoman. You can’t mix and match to present what you want.
Most of the public is unaware of the current trends in the research literature. Many wouldn’t be able to delineate these three groups and their differing (if generalized) characteristics. But in the chaos of ambiguities concerning definitions of “transgender” there are opportunities for misinformation and political propaganda. Policy makers, it is incumbent on you to do your research, and not rely on those who are biased, including, perhaps, myself. Spend the time to get this right. I think the welfare of women and children hang in the balance.
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