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....
.... people who are motivated by religion and people who have no religion because a free society depends on protecting the beliefs we do not share and debating
ideas openly"
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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
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.