Steve QJ
1 min readApr 2, 2022

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I don't think I'd have chosen these exact words, but I agree with the sentiment completely. And this is also the crux of my issue with the way these issues are spoken about.

Seeing women being talked over about issues that materially affect their lives, or worse, being abused and bullied for asserting their boundaries and expressing their experiences, absolutely infuriates me.

I don't have any angst with trans women, I support trans women. The issue is simply that there are issues of safety and fairness when males enter female spaces that don't exist when females enter male spaces.

This is the key piece of evidence against the argument that discussion of these issues is transphobic. If it were, you'd expect to see people arguing against trans men competing against males, or trying to keep trans men out of male-spaces. But this is so rare as to be non-existent.

The debate isn't really about trans people at all. It's about how to protect women's rights and safety.

If the definition of "woman" becomes "anybody who says they're a woman," women obviously become less safe. If the definition of "man" becomes "anybody who says they're a man," nothing changes. So naturally the debate focuses on the definition of "woman."

So no, I don’t think you’re anti-trans. I think the problem is that activists have pushed the debate to such a reality-denying extreme that simply admitting that there is such a thing as a male and a female and that they’re different, is portrayed as bigotry.

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Steve QJ
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