“if you think transwomen are a threat in female bathrooms you should just advocate for floor—to-ceiling individual cubicles” okay but we were fucking fine before bc women have super basic decency and respect for one another. but now, because you’re here, we can’t have a mutual trusting and safe space. now we all have to be high-security guarded against one another. now we gotta feel as though anyone around us could be a predator and we are entirely against the rest of the world.
taking female spaces away doesn’t just deprive women of safety, but also solidarity, dignity and trust. female spaces need to exist because men are consistently historically and statistically proven to be a threat, but also because women have been deprived the ability to exist and especially congregate without male supervision by all highly misogynistic societies, as women are safer and less vulnerable when they are together or know there are women who they can trust.
this obviously isn’t just about bathrooms. as it stands, in my country, women cannot form their own groups without a male being allowed in at any time. we are not allowed to formally congregate without male supervision.
“bathrooms are just where you pee and then come out!!” then use the male bathrooms if it matters that little. “but we might get assaulted” oh that’s crazy. imagine someone getting assaulted in a bathroom. i thought that never happens?? anyways, women and our spaces don’t exist to cushion male problems. you cannot remove the things we fought for the rights for because other males cause you problems.
