In my experience, the majority of trans people, including activists, agree with the statement: “There are some cases where it should be legal to provide services and spaces that are only for women who were female at birth, even if that means excluding transgender women”
A more illuminating question might be "There are some cases where a s…
In my experience, the majority of trans people, including activists, agree with the statement: “There are some cases where it should be legal to provide services and spaces that are only for women who were female at birth, even if that means excluding transgender women”
A more illuminating question might be "There are some cases where a service or space that is only for women should be accessible to transgender women"
I suspect that would reveal that many of the "moderates" are not so moderate.
That would be a great polling question - would be fascinated to see the response to that!
More broadly agree with your point to - that’s why I wish this debate would focus more on specific policy questions (“what about women’s prisons?”, etc), as I suspect it would be easier to find compromises when not arguing in big, abstract terms.
The women's prison issue is one where there are so few cases that really a big picture inflexible policy is not needed. It's absolutely fine to have some areas of public policy that are decided on a case by case basis by people directly briefed on the facts.
In my experience, the majority of trans people, including activists, agree with the statement: “There are some cases where it should be legal to provide services and spaces that are only for women who were female at birth, even if that means excluding transgender women”
A more illuminating question might be "There are some cases where a service or space that is only for women should be accessible to transgender women"
I suspect that would reveal that many of the "moderates" are not so moderate.
That would be a great polling question - would be fascinated to see the response to that!
More broadly agree with your point to - that’s why I wish this debate would focus more on specific policy questions (“what about women’s prisons?”, etc), as I suspect it would be easier to find compromises when not arguing in big, abstract terms.
The women's prison issue is one where there are so few cases that really a big picture inflexible policy is not needed. It's absolutely fine to have some areas of public policy that are decided on a case by case basis by people directly briefed on the facts.
We need Joey Lucas!