Steve QJ
1 min readAug 1, 2022

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On 99% of issues I'd agree with this. But I'm not sure what responsibilities women owe to trans women with regards to single-sex spaces.

Women wanted spaces where they could feel safe from males. So they created them. They get to decide if anybody else is allowed to come in.

But the saddest part of how toxic this has all become is that I think many (most?) women would be perfectly happy to accomodate trans women in their spaces. On the (extremely reasonable) condition that there were sensible efforts to distinguish genuine trans women from men. And that they reserved the right to assert their boundaries when there is no way to accomodate them (as in sport) without being sent death threats or fearing for their jobs.

I wonder if we'd even be having any of these conversations (or at least whether they’d be so nasty) if not for self ID laws. It's so transparently ridiculous that I can, just by saying so, be categorised as a woman in the current climate. JK Rowling, for one, probably wouldn’t have gotten involved, as she specifically mentions those laws in her “TERF manifesto.” I'd have thought trans women would be just as eager as anybody else to close this loophole.

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Steve QJ
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