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This is a completely imagined problem. I don't want to outright accuse you of intentionally lying, because your writing comes off as more just severely uninformed. But where on earth do you come up with this opinion?
> If you're a actual female woman though,
> it's probably best to put some effort in to stopping these changes
You're mistaking sex & gender here. They are indeed quite separate concepts. Perhaps this is why you're apparently resistant to accepting trans people as the gender they present themselves as?
I want to be clear -- the changes are about accepting trans people in society. This does go hand-in-hand with reducing violence against trans people. If there's no acceptance, then the ones that hold the most extreme antagonizing viewpoints _do_ use violence. [1] Using language that others trans people, casts them out as not-women, dehumanizes them. When you dehumanize a person, you make it possible to objectify them. And when people are objects, people become ok with violence.
You cannot ignore the reality that there exists not only people with body dysmorphia, but also folks that don't fall neatly into the XY or XX chromosome paradigm [2].
Nature, reality, does not fall into neat little ordered boxes.
Everyone deserves a fair shake. And everyone deserves to be free of violence and legal discrimination for them simply existing.
[1] https://www.hrc.org/resources/a-national-epidemic-fatal-anti... [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9396296/#:~:text=Classical%2....
No it is not. I'm a bit surprised you have missed the news on this influx of males into women's spaces, to be honest, given how confident you are that this isn't happening. It's one of the most controversial cultural issues in the public eye right now. And many, many women are quite rightly furious about it.
The worst is prisons. Males are being incarcerated in women's prisons and committing sexual assaults, rapes and impregnations upon the women locked up with them.
> You're mistaking sex & gender here. They are indeed quite separate concepts. Perhaps this is why you're apparently resistant to accepting trans people as the gender they present themselves as?
They can present however they want, that is not the issue. The problem is males imposing themselves on female-only spaces. Their claims of identity are irrelevant, they shouldn't be there at all.
What exactly is the risk?
This is why we have sex-segregated spaces like locker rooms, bathrooms and prisons, to reduce the risk to women from violent and sexually abusive men. It's nothing at all like black people being forced to use different bathrooms - this is a segregation that almost all women want to remain in place.
It is also a safety issue in contact sports if males are allowed to compete with women.
> It is also a safety issue in contact sports if males are allowed to compete with women.
Women’s sports rarely allow heavy contact, and we are plenty comfortable with other natural differences such as height and weight. We also have plenty of precedent for people playing things like Ultimate Frisbee as a contact co-ed sport and things are fine.
Trans-identifying males have the same patterns of criminality as other males. The ones in prison are even more likely to have been locked up for sex crimes, when compared to other men in prison.
https://aninjusticemag.com/are-50-of-trans-women-in-prison-s...
Largely the point being that this sample would only include prisoners with serious long punishment crimes, like sex crimes. It’s hardly a random sample.
Probability of sex crime given you’re in prison for a serious crime is not a reliable indicator of baseline probability of a sex crime.
Also see this: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-rorschach-test/
It explains how additional data including from later years, and from New Zealand, supports the observation that these men are more likely to be in prison for sex crimes than men in general, and much, much more likely than actual women.