The list used in @MForstater's article to demonstrate the “practical harms and risks to women and girls” is shockingly similar to the arguments that were made to keep women out of the military and reinforced segregation in the US.https://medium.com/@MForstater/international-development-lets-talk-about-sex-eb9de927c787 …
But in some situations sex segregation is needed. Eg sports. If everything was mixed sex no women would qualify. So we exclude men from womens sports. Do you really think it would be better w no segregation? (9/)
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Similarly with single sex areas. No these are not based on "extreme fear" just ordinary risk assessment and privacy. Most men are perfectly nice, but this doesn't mean that most women feel comfortable in mixed sex open changing areas. So exclusion... (10/)
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I think what you are saying is not that exclusion or segregation per se is bad, but exclusion based on objective sex is bad but it exclusion based on subjective gender identity is good? It's not at all clear why this would be the case either in principle or practice. (end)
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Post menopausal women are women. (5/)