How J.K. Rowling and transphobes are forcing men into women's bathrooms

Jaxon Feeley, trans man 

One of the clear signs of bigotry is how its proponents do not  understand the unintended consequences of their own irrational hatred. They need their "solutions" to their imaginary problems to be neat and easy to handle.

J. K. Rowling and the TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) celebrated their UK Supreme Court victory this week as a victory for women (i.e. cis women). 

They clearly believe that this means that trans women will  be excluded from women's spaces, including bathrooms, in the future.

What they have not considered is  the fact that they have now opened the doors of women's bathrooms to men. 

Indeed, if the British government follows up on this Supreme Court madness (gender reduced to "biological sex" at birth), trans men will be forced to either use the women's room or break the law.

A trans man in the restroom

Imagine this scenario: A trans man (indistinguishable from a cis man) walks into a woman's restroom to do their thing. Imagine one of the women in there alerting a male friend or the staff about this male incursion into female spaces. This may quickly escalate into something ugly.

And what about the trans women using the men's room? Are they going to feel comfortable, having to publicly out themselves in this way? And, as we know, the real creeps in such scenarios are for the most part cis men. How are they going to react to a woman in the men's room?  This may quickly escalate into something even uglier.

Jaxon Feeley, a trans man, told The Independent:

“It [him walking into a women's toilet] not only obviously puts [cis women] in a difficult situation, but it also allows any [cisgender] man to walk into any so-called official single-sex space now and say, ‘Well, I was assigned female at birth.’ How are you policing that? You can’t police that.”

Social exclusion 

You might argue that the whole point of "gender critical" and fascist transphobia is not to protect cis women against trans women or cis men, but to force trans women out of public spaces all-together.  

Michael Hughes posted pictures of himself next to women entering cubicles and doing their makeup, documenting the absurdity of American bathroom laws.

These anti-trans activists do not consider trans men being real men anyway. They have probably never met a trans man in their life. Or, more correctly, they have never knowingly met a trans man, in the same way that they have not been aware of meeting trans women in restrooms, even if they have, given that nothing bad has happened.

The goal is rather to make trans people feel threatened and unwelcome, to the point where they detransition, stay hidden at home or take their own lives. These bathroom laws have the same purpose as the bathroom laws of Jim Crow or apartheid: To oppress those marginalized.

If all trans people stay away, the transphobes will no longer have to face their own bigotry and the fact that sex and gender is not so simple and binary as their frightened tiny minds require.

“The entire trans community is devastated,” jane fae, director of trans campaign group TransActual said. “Irrespective of the small print on this ruling, the intent seems clear: to exclude trans people wholesale from participating in UK society.”

Policing public restrooms

Coming back to Feeley's comment on policing: How are you going to police this? 

We have already a lot of examples of cis women being harassed in women's restrooms for being trans, mostly because of a masculine or an ambiguous gender presentation. Some transmasculine lesbian cis women are already afraid of using public toilets.

Are all women to carry an ID paper with their assigned gender at birth? Should all women carry medical certificates, and if so, to document what really? Chromosomes? Gonads? Testosterone levels?  If so, what about all the intersex people, whose genetic, hormonal and visible makeup represents variants of this factors, challenging the binary by their very existence?  

Is the staff of public establishment going to carry out genital inspections? Should the police be allowed to do so? This may quickly escalate into something seriously ugly.

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