Of course not all transwomen are tiny fragile and pretty, and it's a shame in many ways that things have escalated as they have done over the past 20 years, because I suspect "tiny,fragile and pretty" would have slipped in and out of the ladies lavs unnoticed, and would we have cared? I think not. As others have said "that was never going to be enough for those hell bent on confrontation and upping the ante" and whilst telling us women to "budge up and stop being bigots" they have also thrown the quiet non aggressive transwoman under the bus too, but what does that matter when you're fighting the good fight? Rosie, your cartoon perfectly illustrates the tunnel vision that go with people who live in their own bubbles and it doesn't matter how many bright young educated individuals sit round a dinner table and discuss the matter, they were probably never going to be the ones who may have been smacked around on a basket ball court, or expected to be in a locker room along side a 6ft male with broad shoulders and muscle bound calves, being eyed up whilst surreptitiously trying to change without exposing body parts. "Make sure you keep sure you keep your face to the wall cis girls, or go in the toilets to get your kit on and off if you are so bigoted to complain when they, their team mate who is going to thrash them and cheat them out of any first place, leave their lady penis dangling for all to see"
Personally, I can't help thinking I'm more aligned to the school girls knee jerk reaction, maybe not the towering intellect of the chattering classes, but making what could be deemed as a bald statement to Suzie Eddie, or any man who is in girly mode whether it be a temporary whim or permanent on confrontation in a women's loo, with a "you shouldn't be here" Were they fooled by Suzie's jaunty raspberry pink beret, vertiginous heels with a smear of jam like lipstick? Kind of "no" because they/he/she, still to all intents and purposes looked like a geezer, not a fragile flower. And, if you happen to be 14 with some baulked up individual who looks like a man in a dress and makeup in the midst of what should be a female only space, you can't be expected to know, particularly if you are alone, what their intent is. So therein lies the problem, like the rest of the human race, they don't have a one size fits all. There's a spectrum from the flowery delicates to the full on beefy Desperate Dans and everything in between. There seems to be such a lack of deep thinking from so called intelligent people who can make blanket judgements on an older generation of feminists, when they probably haven't a clue of the issues that will have impacted those lives to form opinions, but then again they're probably talking from the perspective of their own echo chamber. As others have pointed out, much of the framing of opposition to the great swathes of nonsense that has been thrust upon us has come from MN, strangely a younger demographic.
