the whole point of opening up manels is to learn from diverse perspectives. and demonstrate that expert does not equal white male. so i'm ridiculously relaxed about this.
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We can do both. But you are insisting very forcefully that for many cases, we should privilege the use of sex over gender. I think in this way you are hurting a small and very oppressed minority and doing very little to help those of us born in a female-perceived body.
Yes i think there are limited situations where we allow a facility or programme to be selective about sex (in most situations someone's sex does not matter & whether you are male or female shld not be taken into account in your suitability for employment, entry, membership etc..)
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Sex and gender are unrelated. There are lots of other reasons that people are disadvantaged that are unrelated to sex. Disability, ethnicity, class etc... but we don't treat them as interchangeable.
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If some policy is in place to address sex discrimination or women and girl's safety we wouldn't say a person/org could break that commitment in order to address a different area of discrimination/ need. We would say they should both!
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It sounds like you had some bad experiences related to trans women. I imagine they were not about too many trans people appearing on public panels. What's your underlying experience that leads to you feeling so strongly about this issue?
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No not at all. I have had some bad experiences with men (not awful, but the usual run of flashing, groping, street harrassment etc.. that it is pretty much impossible to get to adulthood as a woman without experiencing) and of course lots of women experience much worse.
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