i wrote this thing about transness in which i think both sides are wrong
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You're suggesting that women who care that women and girls should be able to undress away from male people with a penis, or play sports in single sex teams or are alarmed by the cavalier halting of puberty in kids are just making 'excuses to justify an unexamined disgust reflex'?
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I'd be interested to see where stands on the main contested spaces: changing rooms, domestic violence shelters, prisons, toilets; and to understand *who* she has in mind when talking about the many people who have this disgust response. Feminists who discuss them?
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its really hard, because I don't trust people to be aware of their disgust reflex and I don't trust trans people to chill out about this.
My somewhat unsatisfying answer right now is to settle things on an individual basis. I don't think it's bad in principle to have boundaries
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In general, if a woman genuinely processes a trans woman as a man and as a threat in a way thats not informed by disgust, I think it's reasonable for her to request a cis woman space.
But why consider 'disgust' or even 'threat' as part of the equation? Why not start from the *current* premise that women and girls are allowed the peace of mind, dignity and convenience of a single sex changing room? Why bring 'disgust' into it?
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So your starting point is that any male born person with a penis who declares themselves to be a woman should be able to undress in female communal changing rooms by default? And if a woman objects (without disgust) she can request for it to be designated strictly single sex?
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