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The risk of being raped by one’s husband, by contrast, is inordinately higher, which is why this furore is an odd paradox for Prof. Phipps.pic.twitter.com/xfJSPAxBI0
“Male rapists who want to rape a woman in a women’s toilet wouldn’t bother to put a dress on first...It’s a ridiculous assumption that violent men won’t have access to women anyway,” Prof. Phippspic.twitter.com/DIsJonbGnp
Prof. Tracey Jensen describes the situation in the US, arguing that it is the press causing problems around trans-inclusive toilets. Several of the academics pointed to the absence of such incidents in Ireland over the past three years since it introduced self-declaration.pic.twitter.com/172DColsBE
Nowhere in the debate is there more heat than around the treatment of children who question their gender identity. For these academics, the entire furore is a prime example of a moral panic: a concocted outrage that whips up fear and ignores the more sober facts.
Prof. Jensen pointed to the reality of help offered: Children in Britain are not given surgery until age 18 and are only given hormones at 16, and there is only one clinic to which children can be referred.pic.twitter.com/1FagAhVQli
“The rates of suicide and self-harm among young trans people is incredibly high...So what do you want? Do you want those children to suffer? Do you want them to die? Or do you want them to go through a process where they may feel happier?” Prof. Hinespic.twitter.com/uZNgFk3V6P
Why endless focus on trans people?For these academics, it’s misuse of data that has in part led to furore over trans people. eg. Karen White,trans woman who while living as a man raped women & then amid transition was sent to women’s prison where she sexually assaulted inmatespic.twitter.com/ILtPUqQVhZ
“These cases are being used to exemplify all the things that are false or suspicious about the community and they are absolutely the exception,” said Prif. Sundaram. “That happens in various debates around minority rights. It’s a way of upholding the status quo.”pic.twitter.com/G0C2jcuT22
The future? Some of the academics spoke of the personal abuse they have suffered for supporting trans rights. All are horrified at the tone of the debate. Prof. Phipps is disturbed, too, by the links forming between anti-trans feminists and the far right.pic.twitter.com/UXSS2wYQyc
By supporting transgender rights and helping this minority, “we can make the world safer, more livable, and more dignified for all people,” Prof. Jensenpic.twitter.com/a91QOXD66n
Thank you @sally_hines, @VanitaSundaram, @alisonphipps, @AkwugoEmejulu, @Drtraceyjensen for your powerful and vital work.
Thank you @PatrickStrud for interviewing British academics who are pro-trans feminists. All tweets are from his article and interviews with those academics.
Rapes in women's toilets are by far committed by hetero males who are dressed as hetero males than by males dressed as women, much less by transgender women. For Goodness sake, why do we have to say this while women in big clubs go to the toilet in groups because of hetero males?
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