There is too much bullshit in this nasty little post, to address it all, and I promise the rest of the forum, that we are looking at it, and thinking what we do about this poster and his constant stream of right wing hate mongering.
But I wanted to address the nastiest, most insidious part of his post. The allegation that Trans people are disproportionately sexually deviant.
This allegation gets thrown around a lot, and sometimes bogus studies get cited to give it credibility.
I got into an argument a little while ago with someone claiming that trans women were sexual degenerates, along the lines of this post. She eventually sent me a list of 100 names of trans sexual predators and invited me to âdo my own researchâ.
So I did. And I found that in every single case, bar one, the offender committed their crime while presenting as male, and subsequently ârealisedâ they were a trans women after offending and getting caught. Now, I canât rule out the possibly that some of those people were actually women trapped in male bodies, but it does seem suspicious to me that so many male sex offenders suddenly realise they have a burning desire to join the sisterhood after getting caught for an appalling crime and facing a spell in male prison. Certainly enough to make me doubt the veracity and intention of people spreading this libel.
But nobody was present at any point in proceedings to represent Trans Women. Isnât that weird. And also one of the reasons why the ruling will fall.
Do you know what the ruling actually represents? I doubt youâve looked into it.
It puts the onus on service providers to deny gendered services (like toilet provision) to people if they suspect they are not biologically female (whatever the fuck that means). The guidance accompanying the ruling is clear that this is based on appearance and reasonable suspicion, and a person displaying âmasculine traitsâ can be refused a service.
If you actually understand the logical consequences of this, it should be immediately apparent why this is going to be hugely problematic. People who look like a societal ideal of feminity (including some trans women) are going to be fine. People who donât (including a lot of CIS women) are going to be subject to abuse, hassle and embarrassment.
Feminism has fought for generations for the value of a women to not be placed on how she compares to a male centred, societal view of beauty and feminity, and here we are with that fucking confused ghoul (we all know the one) creating legislation that rolls back that progress.
And this is all in response to a pretty non existent threat of - and itâs almost funny to actually type it out - male sexual predators pretending to be women to infiltrate female toilets.
I didât have âwill have to explain feminism to self professed feministsâ on my 2025 bingo card, but itâs been a funny old year.
Ah yes, the weapon of choice of the far right. The unsourced, uncited, unevidenced infographic found on Twitter. I mean, someone has taken the time to type it out and created a little icon for it, so it must be true, right?
One of the most interesting parts of this newly resurgent, reactionary right wing opinion isnât even the bold, carefree way people are willing to throw around comments and opinion that previously would have been halted by the inbuilt decency and kindness filter we all used to have.
Itâs how little people care anymore about whether what they are commenting on is true. Itâs like the opportunity to spew some hateful opinion - whatever the opposite of âvirtue signalling is - is greater than caring about facts.
Case in point. This week Marks and Spencerâs got themselves in a PR mess because they apologised to a customer because they complained that person she thought was trans (being tall seems to be the only factor here, and it isnât clear whether the person actually was trans) asked her if she needed some help while browsing the lingerie with her daughter.
Now despite that being as much of the story as we know, that hasnât stopped the transphobic crowd, led by Robert Galbraith herself, flying off the handle at M&S permitting this kind of sexual deviancy on their premises - deviancy ranging from perving over young girls choosing a bra, to enticing them into fitting rooms to fondle their breasts under the guise of a measuring up.
Iâm torn between believing that for these people the opportunity to put the boot into the trans community transcends trivialities like facts, or whether we are dealing with people so sexually deviant themselves that they canât imagine something like a bra fitting being anything other than an opportunity to perve over womenâs tits.