Re:Nina Paley's MysticSymbolic
by dvfjsdhgfv on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:37PM
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> should provide sufficient privacy and safety
Well, in theory, many things should work. The concerns of women re voiced because, in practice, if these don't work, the consequences can be severe.
And yes, sexual violence dominates in one direction (male -> female/male), that's why we have female-only gyms and other public places, like passenger cars in trains in Asia and other parts of the world. Yes, in theory trains should be safe but in practice sometimes/often they are not, depending on where you live and so on. Saying people who identify as women can enjoy can enter all these safe spaces at will basically destroys all these protections built specifically for women over decades.
Yes, they can.
Trans activists will respond to this with something like “public restrooms, lockerrooms, etc., should not assume that everyone is a cisgender heterosexual and that sexual violence occurs only in the direction if normal attraction, and should provide sufficient privacy and safety for the fact that genser identity, attraction, and sexual violence targets are not determined by sex assigned at birth.”
I would hazard a guess that there are few groups of people who are more aware of, and have spent more energy on considering comprehensive rather than shallow solutions for, this issue than trans activists.