Reducing risk of sexual crime (voyeurism, exposure, assault - a risk mainly posed by men) is just one reason we have sex segregated spaces in some situations (privacy & dignity is another).
& Unisex options are often possible so that everyone can be accommodated comfortably
The "Swedish Study" is a peer reviewed long term follow up study of 324 ppl undergoing surgical transition
Included in its findings is that MtF transsexuals retained a male pattern of criminality including violent crime
This is an inconvenient finding for people advocating for allowing males to be able to self-identify into previously female-only spaces
They say there is no basis for concerns about the risk for women.
In 2015 the magazine Transadvocate published an interview with with lead author Cecelia Dhjene where it asked her to disavow some interpretations of her study
Note, she didn't disavow the published study, but some wilder questions put to her
Stock, Freeman and Sullivan (nor anyone else with any sense) are not claiming that the study shows that trans people 'are likely rapists'
This isn't what the Swedish Study shows
What the study showed is that
*MtF transsexuals retained a male pattern of criminality including violent crime*
This finding has not been challenged or revised in the the peer reviewed journal, whatever a magazine article interview says.
The MPs at the Women and Equality Select Committee asked Rosa Freedman, Alice Sullivan and Kathleen Stock for details of the study and they sent it as supplementary evidence
They also included, and referenced in their briefing an earlier evidence submission to the Scottish Government by @mbmpolicy that addresses the claims covered in the magazine interview
Professor Alex Sharpe who had also presented in that session thought that a professional and respectful way to acknowledge this evidence was by mocking their names.
Dr Ruth Pearce put in evidence accusing the gender critical professors or "distortions and untruths".
This is really an extraordinary thing to say in evidence to a select committee
A PhD student who previous wrote a character assassination on Kathleen Stock took issue with the way that the Stock, Freedman and Sullivan have referenced MBM's work
As Lucy Hunter Blackburn (one third of @mbmpolicy ) has said this is ridiculous.
This is not an academic paper - it is an evidence briefing to MPs to help them understand the study and its critics.
The referencing and use of their analysis is fine.
@SimonFRCox serious human rights barrister who thinks that wanting males in female-only spaces makes you a bigot is also deeply concerned about referencing
(but does not want to talk about the findings of the Swedish Study)
All of this: the interrogation/interview, the mockery, the accusation of untruth, the inappropriate referencing nitpickery is designed to draw attention away from the finding of the Swedish Study
*MtF transsexuals retained male patterns of criminality, including violent crime*
It is also trying to draw attention away from the actual bad academic move that is trying to be pulled:
Using an interview in a magazine to deny the findings of a quantitative study in a peer reviewed journal.
If Bean and Cox had any interest in the actual quality of evidence they would be asking questions about this, not about whether Alice Sullivan is being disparaging.
Adding this to the thread of bad behaviour.
This is an extraordinary accusation by Simon Cox - he accuses the three gender critical academics of "hiding [a] critical text from parliament".
This is absolutely baseless
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1st of Feb - a year ago today I made this speech @Womans_Place_UK
What an amazing day it was.
As I said then "I am not an academic feminist, not a
professional feminist, not a radical feminist, not a socialist feminist. I am a feminist and I'm an ordinary woman
who knows what a woman is and who refused to shut up about it."
"I will stand beside Labour women, Conservative women Liberal Democrats, Greens SNP and the women who find
themselves politically homeless, Democrats and Republicans, men of all political stripes, transsexuals who do not demand that we deny reality....
Back in September 2018 I asked this question, which lead to a twitter discussion, which lead to me losing my job.
The Q wasn't about Bunce really but about whether, when you have a policy that is about empowering women, you change the definition to suit a man?
People who responded, smart people, usually robust economists said things like this.
I was surprised...but I could why they might fence sit, or SEK to be (apparently) inclusive, since the #manels question is fairly minor.
But when it really matters people might say no?..no?
Like when someone who has lived all their life as a man and has recently "become" a woman asks for a seat on a forum where women have a chance to talk to medics about how women are treated in pregnancy and childbirth.