Good example! I wouldn’t force a child to share a tent with someone they don’t want to. If someone doesn’t feel safe or comfortable they should know they will be listened to. But I don’t see why you have to call this person a boy to achieve that.
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Replying to @AW_Baker @economeager and
Because that is why the girl does not want to share a tent w him. He may be perfectly nice in everyway. Not threatening. But I think she has that right. It does not have to be handled in a way that humiliates anyone. eg could ask kids/parents to choose mixed or single sex tent.
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Replying to @MForstater @AW_Baker and
But when i suggested this (unoffical scouting FB page) i was told it was transphobic "transwomen are women".... If any girls or parents are concerned they "are transphobic and should leave scouting"!
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Replying to @MForstater @AW_Baker and
(just to clarify... this is a hypothetical example, not a real case that i am dealing with)
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Replying to @MForstater @AW_Baker and
there is no need to invoke gender here. it is no better to be made uncomfortable by being forced by messed up notions of social politeness to share a tent with a creepy woman than a creepy man.
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Replying to @economeager @AW_Baker and
No children are forced to share a tent with adults (that is absolutely not allowed). This is about whether girls can object to sharing a tent with a boy in their age group.
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Replying to @MForstater @AW_Baker and
transgirls are girls and not boys. they do not assault other girls at anywhere near the same rate that boys do.
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Replying to @economeager @AW_Baker and
So you keep saying. but i haven't seen any evidence of this. Study in Sweden found that crime rate of transwomen matched male not female pattern (and this was ppl undergoing surgery etc.. not self ID)https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885 …
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Replying to @MForstater @economeager and
And the underlying point is that girls should be allowed to say I don't want to sleep in a tent with males. They shouldn't have some authorities calling them names or saying "oh its ok these males are not like that, they're the nice ones". That's not how consent works!
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Replying to @MForstater @AW_Baker and
I am deeply disturbed by the incredibly harmful turn this discussion has taken. Had I known you were prepared to raise the false spectre of transwomen commiting violence against ciswomen, when you know that in fact this is *vanishingly rare*, I would never have engaged you.
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Rachael I've seen the cases in past month Karen White https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/09/sexual-assaults-in-womens-prison-reignite-debate-over-transgender-inmates-karen-white …, Jacinta Brooks https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/02/trans-woman-who-pretended-to-be-a-boy-to-groom-a-girl-is-sent-to-all-male-prison-7998788/ … Carrie Cooper https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/littlehey-prison-paedophiles-cambridgeshire-cooper-15108328 …. This does not seem vanishingly rare. & if any man can say he's a woman. What will stop other predatory men abusing this?
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