I've thought about this often. I'm sure when you wrote this, you had Hen's experience in mind, among other women's.
For anyone who doesn't know, Henrietta Freeman is a quadriplegic women with some cognitive impairments, including memory problems. She campaigns for same-sex care for disabled women and is completely brilliant. I won't post her Twitter handle here, but everyone should totally follow her.
Here's another friend of mine reading a speech Hen wrote at the Let Women Speak event in Glasgow recently:
Whenever Hen writes about this stuff, the abuse she gets from trans activists is *absolutely horrific*.
They are completely incensed by the idea that an extremely vulnerable woman might want to insist on same-sex intimate care. Hen's memory issues mean that if she were abused by a carer, she might not remember it until it was far too late to gather any physical evidence. This 'carer' would be a male stranger who has access to her home when she's alone. And, even worse, it would be very easy for him to get access to her key outside the appointment times or to make a copy of that key. It would be very easy for him to trade it with other abusers. Whatever professional expertise I have is in security and the security community knows that this sort of thing absolutely happens. It's an extremely low hurdle for abusers.
This is a terrifying situation and yet a large number of trans activists just can not stand the idea of her having sing;e-sex care, to the extent that they send her some of the worst abuse I've ever seen in an attempt to silence her.
This is queer theory in action. This is a direct result of the attempted erasure of boundaries. No boundary can be tolerated and even brilliant, brave, iron-strong women like Hen suffer greatly for it. Hen literally doesn't have a voice, but she has ways of making herself heard. There are countless women, children and older people who do not.
It appears that the end game of some of the most vocal activists (certainly not all trans people) truly is to remove women from public life. If you don’t want to be in a locker room where a “woman” is walking around naked looking at women with an exposed penis, a “woman” who could easily overpower the average woman and sexually assault her, then women will stop going to the gym. If you don’t want to be in a public restroom where you are alone with a person who might assault you, you start staying home, or at least stop taking your daughters out. If you feel it’s inappropriate to have to explain to your kindergartner daughter what an erection is and why a man might have one and why that may be dangerous to her but she can’t say that it’s dangerous because then she’ll be called transphobic, you just start not going out. If playing sports is dangerous and demoralizing because many of the participants have an overwhelming advantage due to height, muscularity, and hip structure, women will stop playing. Public life will start to consist of 2 categories of people, men and “women”, and they’ll call it equality and progress while actual people with female bodies are no longer able to participate.
I've thought about this often. I'm sure when you wrote this, you had Hen's experience in mind, among other women's.
For anyone who doesn't know, Henrietta Freeman is a quadriplegic women with some cognitive impairments, including memory problems. She campaigns for same-sex care for disabled women and is completely brilliant. I won't post her Twitter handle here, but everyone should totally follow her.
Here's another friend of mine reading a speech Hen wrote at the Let Women Speak event in Glasgow recently:
https://youtu.be/qloik3Oz2cM?t=1530
Whenever Hen writes about this stuff, the abuse she gets from trans activists is *absolutely horrific*.
They are completely incensed by the idea that an extremely vulnerable woman might want to insist on same-sex intimate care. Hen's memory issues mean that if she were abused by a carer, she might not remember it until it was far too late to gather any physical evidence. This 'carer' would be a male stranger who has access to her home when she's alone. And, even worse, it would be very easy for him to get access to her key outside the appointment times or to make a copy of that key. It would be very easy for him to trade it with other abusers. Whatever professional expertise I have is in security and the security community knows that this sort of thing absolutely happens. It's an extremely low hurdle for abusers.
This is a terrifying situation and yet a large number of trans activists just can not stand the idea of her having sing;e-sex care, to the extent that they send her some of the worst abuse I've ever seen in an attempt to silence her.
This is queer theory in action. This is a direct result of the attempted erasure of boundaries. No boundary can be tolerated and even brilliant, brave, iron-strong women like Hen suffer greatly for it. Hen literally doesn't have a voice, but she has ways of making herself heard. There are countless women, children and older people who do not.
It appears that the end game of some of the most vocal activists (certainly not all trans people) truly is to remove women from public life. If you don’t want to be in a locker room where a “woman” is walking around naked looking at women with an exposed penis, a “woman” who could easily overpower the average woman and sexually assault her, then women will stop going to the gym. If you don’t want to be in a public restroom where you are alone with a person who might assault you, you start staying home, or at least stop taking your daughters out. If you feel it’s inappropriate to have to explain to your kindergartner daughter what an erection is and why a man might have one and why that may be dangerous to her but she can’t say that it’s dangerous because then she’ll be called transphobic, you just start not going out. If playing sports is dangerous and demoralizing because many of the participants have an overwhelming advantage due to height, muscularity, and hip structure, women will stop playing. Public life will start to consist of 2 categories of people, men and “women”, and they’ll call it equality and progress while actual people with female bodies are no longer able to participate.