I think the mocking is a result of people being frustrated at the considerable changes to how we should see ourselves, how we should refer to others, in a way that feels unnatural and absurd. For women though, it is upsetting for males to assume our identities, or that they know what it is like to grow up marginalized as a female.
It is also about safety.
And the difficult thing is that while fighting for others' rights is a good principle in general obv, I don't really understand what rights trans people are being denied. There are just massive policy questions here that haven't been answered. Remember that risk assessment and safeguarding is about not allowing conditions that could let the tiny group of bad people from a given group in. For example, every single person who has to regularly come into contact with kids needs to legally have a background check. It does not mean that there is a stereotype around those who work with children. I wouldn't be offended by it, or ask barriers to be taken down for all, because it offends and invalidates me. It's about stopping the tiny minority of people who wish to do harm.
A major problem with de facto letting trans women use female spaces, is that trans women by crime stats commit violence at the same rate as cis men. Trans women have the skeletal structure, height, and male puberty like cis men and are physically intimidating to women. Women only toilets in the UK were actually lobbied for by the feminist movement, because females are much safer around each other than spaces where males are allowed. Default patriarchy was just fine with women being intimidated out of peeing.
It's like, the argument for letting trans women use female spaces is so that they may avoid male violence. Isn't this a contradiction?
Trans women in prison have opted to be transferred to female estates, because they are much safer from male violence. Trans men unequivocally do not do this because they would be considerably less safe than in the female prison.
Sex matters. There is one group who are apt to hold social, political and economic advantage from birth, raised to be confident in their abilities. This group commits 80%+ of all violent crime, 99% of sexual assaults (UK 2021 figures). Crimes committed against them are apt to be from other males.
There is another group who are up to half a foot shorter, historically disenfranchised, and overwhelming responsible for the care of vulnerable children, and who carry babies. This group makes up less than 5% of the UK prison population and 3 women a week die at the hands of their own male partners or male family members.
Females know that they can be killed by the bare hands of a man determined enough. Female only spaces give us a break from that. They let us speak about our unique struggles.
In the UK, the feminist movement pushed for female only bathrooms for our safety. And set up the first domestic violence shelters, against considerable pushback. Getting rid of sex segregated spaces for mixed spaces takes us back to the 1900s, before women had a right to take a job without her husband approving, or earn above the 'woman wage'. There is no female independence without single sex spaces to protect us from violence.
It is deeply anti feminist to be trans rights, and every woman feels that deep hurt.
Which rights do trans people lack- they have the same rights as gay people, BIPOC, anyone in society.
In sum!! I just don't understand:
-what are trans rights exactly (it's never defined clearly?)
-why it's so anti feminist
I wish trans people well, it's a very confusing movement to those outside of it basically.
