Preventing trans women from entering women-only spaces cannot possibly protect women from domestic violence.
This may seem obvious, but in an interview today a prominent "gender critic" cited domestic violence as a reason to exclude trans women from women-only spaces.
This may seem obvious, but in an interview today a prominent "gender critic" cited domestic violence as a reason to exclude trans women from women-only spaces.
I am now adding "domestic violence" to the list of spurious excuses for violating the protected rights of trans women. Along with "paedophilia", "heteronormativity" and "biology".
In the same interview the gender critic insisted that she would not use trans women's preferred pronouns, because to her they are "men". But pronouns are a linguistic convention which has nothing whatsoever to do with biological sex.
In French, for example, the noun "table" takes the feminine pronoun "la". It is plainly ridiculous to argue that this means a table is biologically female. It is a linguistic convention, that is all.
Pronouns do not denote biological sex. They denote social gender, that is all, including - in many languages - for inanimate objects. So it is simply rude not to refer to trans women, or anyone else for that matter, by their preferred pronouns.
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