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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by bxgebbare on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:53AM (#38188760)
The trans rights are human rights slogan is typically used as a euphemism for removing all single-sex spaces and services, instead dividing them by self-proclaimed 'gender identity'.

This is particularly harsh on women who need female-only spaces away from any males.

For example, prisons are sex-segregated to prevent male predation on women. In some places, because of 'trans rights' activism, the authorities have incarcerated men who call themselves women in the female prison estate, and some of these men have sexually assaulted, raped and even impregnated women prisoners who were trapped there with them.

So you will find a lot of radical feminists and gender-critical feminists disagreeing with this slogan on that basis. And many other people too, when they learn about how women are being harmed by this.

Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by lpil on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @11:10AM (#38192433)
Hi there, I'm the maintainer of the Gleam website.

> The trans rights are human rights slogan is typically used as a euphemism for removing all single-sex spaces and services

To be clear, the Gleam community does not support the banning of single-sex spaces.

Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by bxgebbare on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @11:58AM (#38193248)
Thanks for the clarification. By that, do you mean that you have no issue with the exclusion of 'trans women' (i.e. men who identify as women) from female-only spaces?