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Some women at a women's shelter, having been deeply traumatized by men, are uncomfortable around trans women. Would you support the shelter making a subsection for these women that excludes trans women?

Yes, subsection
42%
Yes - the whole shelter
19.6%
No, definitely not
15.7%
Uncertain/results
22.7%

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*Private* rooms/areas, rather than validating some "people with trait X make me uncomfortable" dispreferences as valid/legitimate and not others Some people might have been traumatized by "people who wear hats" but I'm not gonna make whole "no hat" sections as a result...

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@uncatherio

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but wondering how you feel about the existence of women's shelters themselves, which are drawing a "private" area away from men - do you feel shelters should be nongendered?

11:01 PM · Dec 11, 2019

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honestly I feel I would need a better understanding of how shelters model their programs to serve their populations I don't currently support men's / women's *bathrooms*, I support "many stalls, room of sinks, anyone" or "single-occupacy" bathrooms but as for shelters [...]

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They dont shelter women from men. They shelter women who had to get away from someone and the only alternative is the street.