There is some ideologising about this but to suggest it targets women specifically and is systematic and widespread is also ideologising.
Trans exclusionary feminists who deny that gender differences exist in the brain and claim gender to be entirely a cultural construct. Conservatives who claim that reproductive systems alone are what decide gender and ignore massive evidence of brain differences in trans people.
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And that arguments doesn't work anyway. If someone is inclined to discriminate against women, they're unlikely to check the contents of their knickers first so they'll discriminate against trans women as well as cis women.
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Not so: female children are electively aborted, natal girls face FGM, child marriage, unwanted pregnancies and other factors that trans women will never face.
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I certainly agree there is discrimination against women in some countries and cultures but I am talking about my own. However, unwanted pregnancy is not discrimination.
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Exposing biological girls to unwanted pregnancies by promoting the delusion that sex differences are all a matter of opinion is discrimination. Imposing gender ideology on society & calling dissent "hate speech" is discrimination.
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The first bit doesn't make any sense. How do girls become more at risk of getting pregnant if they believe in trans identity? I have agreed with the second one many times.
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Promoting "abstinence only" sex education demonstrably leads to more pregnancies. Telling kids that a biological male is a female because he says so is delusional: he (she) can still get someone pregnant, or a trans male can still get pregnant.
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If you show me that sex education now teaches kids that they can't get pregnant or make someone pregnant if they are trans, I will get on board with helping you oppose this very vigorously. I had no idea this was happening and remain skeptical that it is unless shown evidence.
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It seems out of keeping with trans activism which is much very concerned with emphasising that some men (trans men) can get pregnant and require reproductive services. It would regard any claim that (trans) boys can't get pregnant as transphobic.
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So let's discuss the real issues... The trans lobby & their legion of unquestioning supporters labelling everyone who asks questions a "TERF" to shut down debate are a disaster. BTW, please show me the "massive evidence of brain differences in trans people", especially in kids.
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I disagree that they are the one real issue. I have already said that trans activist loons exist and are loons. They are just one of a number of gender ideologue loons. The essay explains my position on this much better than I can on Twitter & includes the neuroscience.
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I wrote it so I didn't have to keep having the same conversation over and over again on Twitter. Pls read if you want to know my stance on this.
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Helen, I am not questioning your stance, this is not an attack on you - I am questioning the stance of trans activists & the governments who support them unquestioningly.
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Well, I've already said that I agree with you on the problem of extreme trans activists so I don't know what more you want me to say.
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I'm raising this as a discussion: you don't have to answer every point - i"m interested what other people think. It's not true that that women don't face discrimination on the basis of biology in the West. They still do. Again, I think the issue is not just fringe loons.
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I have addressed my stance on this here in great detail. It will be much easier to read it than ask me lots of questions I'd have to answer in 280 characters.https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/27/an-argument-for-a-liberal-and-rational-approach-to-transgender-rights-and-inclusion/ …
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