trisher
^The fight is not about not letting men into changing rooms - that is a symptom more than it's the problem itself. It's about having boundaries, having agency, having the right to be women on our terms, not on the terms of men who want to muscle in on the best bits of being a woman.^
Transwomen suffer abuse, are subjected to violence, are raped, are discriminated against and are poorer. Could you please explain to me how these are "the best bits of being a woman".
Women are abused, subjected to violence, are raped, discriminated against and are poorer than men. Up to now, the statistics are still there to prove it. Those stats will no longer make sense if/when men who say they are women are included, however.
Where are the stats to show the same applies to transwomen, please?
I don't doubt that there is some discrimination against some transwomen. I have seen it myself. Tbh, though, at least some of that is because of the nature of the people being discriminated against (and here, I am not referring to all transpeople). If someone insists on everyone in a meeting using a preferred pronoun, reports colleagues who haven't realised their situation for misgendering them, is hyper-sensitive to anything that could possibly be interpreted as 'against' them, then yes, others are unlikely to react badly. Not because the person concerned is non-binary/trans, but because they are a pain in the arse.
Also, there are definite, recorded and proven gender differences when it comes to people vocalising ideas in public spaces. Men do it far more than women. Anyone who has ever attended a class, a meeting or a party will be aware of that, but the research is out there to be read. It is far more noticeable, therefore, when transwomen, who were socialised as male, continue to give everyone their uninvited opinion, continue to mansplain, and continue to dominate discussions. When they do it as men it's annoying, but everyone is used to it, but when they do it in a dress it really stands out.
There are, of course, other examples of how male and female behaviour differs, and how transwomen (understandably) continue to display the male behaviour they are used to - of course they do. It's understandable, but it may explain some discrimination.
There is no excuse for violence, and I'm not a fan of whataboutery, but I have never heard a gender-critical feminist advocate that transpeople should die in grease fires ir be raped with 'chick-dicks', or organise to have them sacked from their work, or cancelled on the media. TRAs do that all the time, though. They will use the language they want, the threats they want and behave how they want to. As men are more inclined than women to do.
Many transpeople (the non-violent, non-TRA ones) have serious mental health issues, which is a shame (and not, IMO helped by the behaviour of TRAs), but may explain their relative poverty. It's impossible to know if their trans status plays a part, or if it is purely a MH issue, however, as there is (rightly) no register of transpeople, so no way of getting reliable statistics, such as the ones you appear to think exist.
