Fr Ted creator/writer Graham Linehan Arrested over posts on Transgender issues

This proves the point beautifully. The number of cases of men identifying as women to be violent are tiny, an infinitesimally small number of cases. That's why you had to go to LA and UK to come up with examples. It never ceases to amaze me how those who claim to be all about protecting women will search the globe for that tiny number of strange cases, while they turn a blind eye to what actually happens here at home, in Ireland. Shall we take a quick look at what cases went through the Courts and Gardai last week reflecting the experiences of women in Ireland;

Even women's statues aren't safe here, with DCC having to take further measures to stop people groping women for a laugh;

And at policy level, here's what women are having to live with;

These are the men, violent men attacking and assaulting women, often the men in their own houses, but posters here are more interested in posting about the bogey trans person in LA or UK than dealing with what actually happens to women in Ireland on a very regular basis.

that poster is previously on record that ALL men want to rape women, so that wouldn’t be a stretch.

There is no 'disaster' of self-id. This is an invention. We've had self-id for years, with no fuss or drama, until it became a social media thing.

How can you not understand that if you ACTUALLY want to protect women, you've got about a thousand bigger targets to go after before you come after trans women. This targeting of trans women isn't about safety or protecting women, it's about punishment.

I don't understand much of this post, I've no idea what 'aging AGP' means.

What I mean by trans is transgender, someone born into the wrong physical gender. We can swap dictionary definitions all you like, but that's just a distraction.

If you talk to trans people and their parents, they'll often tell you that they 'knew' at 4 or 5 or 6. The trans woman I know best talks about praying to god every night as a young child that they'd wake up as female. If you talk to gay people, they'll often tell you that they knew they were gay from similar ages.

Trans children exist.

That looks like a fairly horrific attack, but blaming it on self-id is a stretch. Are you saying that this person identified as female years before specifically so they could get into female spaces to carry out assaults?

Is the presence of one trans woman a huge problem for that shelter in Rathmines, or perhaps is the years of under funding and huge demand for services their huge problem. Where were the protectors of women for the years of under funding of the shelter?

Yet again, searching the globe for that tiny number of strange cases while turning a blind eye to what's actually happening in Ireland.

I must admit, I, an AMAB person have been assaulted by a (cis) woman, and I feel I have to be extra-vigilant about any woman, after I was assaulted by a woman on the bus. But I don't feel I should patrol transmascs 'intruding' on my spaces.

You see, I don’t find that at all. He’s been in for a lot of criticism from everyone. Not just trans issues either, he shoots first and thinks later. I’m curious as to why he’s so thin-skinned and why he often isolates people to have a go at in public who he feels haven’t supported him. Petulant man-child vibes.

Women’s rights and protected single sex spaces are not about him, but about women. Everyone comes around to logically thinking about these issues in their own way ( if they’re capable of critical thought, that is), and he needs to take a step back and develop some objectivity. It’s not personal to him only in so far as he says his gender critical stance resulted in the loss of his career and family.

He’s fighting his own demons there and it really has little to do with his thinking, more so on his delivery. An air of “Why can’t I shout about this from the rooftops in anyway I see fit and fook yous all for not supporting me” Has that ever worked for anyone on any issue? No.

BTW, lots he says I agree with, but others not.

It's quite possible that he needs help, but I don't know what you think women are meant to do - force him to go to therapy? He's a grown-ass man.

Seems like blaming women for something a man does.

Something we see a lot of.

That's pretty much my opinion on Linehan as well, except maybe I have more sympathy for him than you seem to. I think he is/was a comedy genius, and that for complicated reasons he has lost what could have been a glittering career and shedloads of money.

Unlike what that self-satisfied little pest Emma Watson said about Rowling, I think the best that can be said of Glinner is that it really is true that:

And the worst would be that he's not a lot better than some of the entitled males that women complain about. Just, in this case (mostly) on the same side as women. But I don't believe in ignoring someone's inappropriate behaviour just because I agree with them on the substantive issue. Because there's always a point at which you disagree with them, and their real character will be turned against you then too.

Like I say - the jury is still out for me on that. But I don't see him as a knight in shining armour by any stretch of the imagination. Just one of the rare men who, for whatever reason has taken women's side, and I am grateful to him for that. Despite his flaws.

Again, I didn't say that. There were plenty of women against giving women the vote back in the day. But we don't have to pretend they were right, do we?

Consent is a personal thing. No woman can give consent for men to be in female spaces with all women. No matter how little it bothers that woman personally.

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I know that none of us get a veto on who shares a bathroom with us. What bathrooms would you expect Jamie and Jackie to use?

I didn't see your tweet, but if Jackie is Jackie Green (and Jamie I've no idea) I would say that they should use the bathrooms of their biological sex, or the gender neutral individual ones, but that in practice if they "pass" well enough for people genuinely not to notice (as opposed to being too afraid to complain) then I don't care if they use the other toilets, as long as nobody else cares.

But if someone complains, then they should potentially be fined for sexual harassment, depending on what they did that called attention to them. Because by their appearance and/or behaviour they are acting inappropriately.