@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoKeir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 sayswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1108cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1108external-linkKeir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 sayswww.bbc.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•2 months agomainly for purposes like: who gets into women’s prisons, women’s bathrooms, women’s domestic violence shelters I agree with you that in a gender-equal society there shouldn’t be many purposes for which this matters, but “not many” isn’t “none”.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝linkfedilinkEnglish14•2 months agoSo next question, why are all those gendered? If the answer is the threat of violence, what does it say about us as a society that we can’t prevent it without segregating women?
mainly for purposes like: who gets into women’s prisons, women’s bathrooms, women’s domestic violence shelters
I agree with you that in a gender-equal society there shouldn’t be many purposes for which this matters, but “not many” isn’t “none”.
So next question, why are all those gendered? If the answer is the threat of violence, what does it say about us as a society that we can’t prevent it without segregating women?