https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_the_Un... 58% of trans women placed in men's prisons report being violently sexually assaulted. One answer is a lot more damned than the other.
Incarcerating males in the female prison estate was an absurd and demonstrably harmful policy, and it's very good news that this will now no longer be the case in the federal prison system.
If prisons worked (as anything but a source of cheap labor) all Americans would be safe.
Even assuming your binary exists — it doesn’t — a heterosexual cisgender woman is, obviously, under no additional risk being housed with a heterosexual transgender woman… it’s not the genitals that are the problem, it’s whom do you intend to deploy those genitals on.
That laugh aside, I’m not sure you made your point; once more, the heterosexual cisgender woman is in less danger from a heterosexual transgender woman than she is from another otherwise cisgender woman who will aggressively pursue any port in a storm.
If you want to argue for not segregating prisons by sex, then you should just state that. If that ever happens you'll quickly find out how terrible of an idea it is.
Blaming us for the backlash is the same abusive thinking as "i wouldn't hit you if you'd just do what i want." Trans people are just the easiest target. If it wasn't us, it'd have been someone else.
Denying simple biological reality will get us more fascism. It's not the entire reason, but it's easy to whip people up about trans issues when you literally have men beating up women in sports. Your average person will never accept that, and that's something you just need to accept because you can't change it.
Note that I said "partially responsible". The fundamental reason is that the DNC doesn't give a shit about the working class and rejects actual leftist ideals, but trying to push unpopular social issues on top of that just killed their chances.
Some day, we'll arrive at a happy medium of "trans women are not women but that's fine and let them live their lives in peace".
Calling it "biological reality" is a massive oversimplification of biology that is used to stir unease towards trans people. Trans people are not beating up [cis] women in sports. This is another story to stir up fear and hatred, and you're just repeating it thoughtlessly.
Most of what you're seeing politically is defending a vulnerable group from unwarranted attacks by a powerful political party backed by moneyed interests sowing division as a distraction from the real problems. If the right weren't so focused on taking away trans people's rights to bodily autonomy and existence, you wouldn't be hearing about us so much.
I am going to repeat some of what I replied to someone else...
Birth sex is not useful when talking about trans people, who may be on hormone replacement therapy or have had gender affirming surgeries. To fixate on that is to deny the reality that trans people don't necessarily fit into the gender binary (and at the same time many do). Our systems are structured by gender binaries and so accommodations need to be made for those who don't fit perfectly (which also helps cis women who do not present as traditionally feminine).
The notion that trans women are inherently dangerous to cis women, which is the conclusion you seem to be arriving at because you are thinking of trans women as men, is a false notion.
Cis men are the greatest danger to cis women. If the amount of attention being placed on trans women were instead being placed on that fact, maybe cis women would actually be safer.
Trans people exist and always have. Right now we are being demonized because we are an easy target. And when folks like you buy into that, you are doing the demonizing work for the people who are controlling through division. Trans people are not a problem to be solved. We're just fighting to keep our rights from being taken away.
> Trans people are not beating up [cis] women in sports.
This is plainly false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallon_Fox#Mixed_martial_arts_...
> During Fox's fight against Tamikka Brents on September 13, 2014, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head in the 1st round. After her loss, Brents took to social media to convey her thoughts on the experience of fighting Fox: "I've fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can't answer whether it's because she was born a man or not because I'm not a doctor. I can only say, I've never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right", she stated. "Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn't move at all in Fox's clinch."
There's more examples here, but can we both agree that your statement is incorrect?
You almost understand the truth. Forcing people into strict gender roles based on social mores is bad. Men can wear dresses and women can wear pants, etc. What I hope you'll understand is that just because you don't follow gender stereotypes doesn't mean you can change your sex. A man taking cross-sex hormones and getting surgery is still a man. Let's not sell him the lie that he will ever be a woman. Let's enlighten him that he should live his life and engage in as many masculine or feminine activities as he sees fit.