Because all the conversation I’ve seen has been against Trans Women going to women’s restrooms. Which is strange to me because, according to the twisted concept of TERFs, Trans men are not men (even though they are), but “women”.
Aren’t they worried about “women” going into men’s bathrooms?
Every time a women came into the men’s bathroom I just assumed it was urgent and that the women’s bathroom was occupied or closed. Never had any different thought.
Edit: I don’t think any sane man would care if a female, trans, cyborg or alien would go pee.
Respect my right to be robophobic
If you came into my bathroom, I would stay until you finished.
making sure they wash their hands. good on you
You make Bender sad.
I mean, *phobes have little problem with also being hypocrites.
Well they have to get the idea to self-project from somewhere. Like US politicians and paedophilia
The thing you have to understand about TERF ideology is that they think:
- Men are evil rapists
- Women are dainty weak little waifs
- And, of course, gender is immutably determined by sex assigned at birth
So naturally they think trans women are evil rapey men trying to infiltrate women’s spaces, while trans men are weak-willed stupid little girls who’ve been seduced into Gender and don’t know any better.
Very feminist, much radical.
Well, I’m aware of that. I’m just baffled by how little TERFs care about those “stupid little girls seduced by gender”.
In their worldview, they are “women” entering a space full of “evil men”, which sound worse than a “man” entering a space full of women.
I don’t hear them talking about trans men and toilets (I guess they think they’re st risk, but it’s their own fault?) but I’ve heard lots of criticism of trans men as telling women they aren’t allowed to be masculine, or erasing lesbians, or other poorly informed things.
it’s so clear and so sad how accurate your words are
No. They should be considering this, given that plenty of trans men look like large and intimidating men (because they are), and they’ll be forced to use womens’ restrooms if the TERFs had their way.
Ultimately, the restroom issue is only superficial. TERFs (and other bigots) will pick issues like this, but they don’t actually care about the issues they’re yelling about. What they really care about is keeping their privilege and their sense of superiority. And that requires having a “them” group to put down and exclude, to clutch their pearls around.
So when you see irrational takes like the restroom thing, remember that it’s irrational because it’s not actually important to them (though they themselves likely don’t realize that).
They also care about ruining trans people’s lives in any way possible. I’m sure there are plenty of transphobes who simply haven’t thought the bathroom thing through, but don’t forget the other reason they’d be happy to put passing trans men in women’s bathrooms: it forces them into an impossible decision. When an angry mob drags a trans man out of the women’s toilet, you think they’re going to listen to protestations of being AFAB? If anything, that’d just rile them up further. So a when someone is faced with the decision of choosing either the room they’re least likely to be noticed in, or the one the law technically assigned to them, they may instead choose to stay home. They may even start considering detransitioning. This is a feature, not a bug.
As far as I can tell, no. No one ever seems to care. I can only assume it’s because they view men as the “dominant” sex and women as “weak”.
I think one thing that most people can agree on is that they prefer walking into an empty public restroom.
Nobodyfew of us like using the facilities while under observation.TERFs don’t want trans people using any toilet. TERFs want to push trans people out of public life, and ideally to stop existing all together, by making existing in it as difficult as possible.
Amazing how hard it is to express the TE in TERF is an absolute.
It’s not a TERF thing. Nearly no one cares about who goes into a “Men’s” Restroom and it’s always been that way.
I’m a dude and have used the women’s room a lot of times.
Sometimes you gotta shit and dudes rooms don’t always have seats.
I dare you to live on the road with a punk rock band and only use one genders bathroom for the whole tour.
You’ll shit your pants.
It’s the definition. Trans exclusionary RADICAL FEMINIST.
They put women’s rights first.
