Thank you for speaking up for women, and for fighting with facts. Your work could not be more important to women and the future of women/children in this world.
This was really informative. The quantitative, qualitative, slip and correction at the beginning, had me laughing. I have concerns about DATA analysis being used on TWITTER. A lot of GC & Women's Rights accounts, loose/derister retweets and likes, I've seen it on pinned tweets, but I am almost certain, it is happening on all tweets, from GC/WRA account. This happens roughly a couple of weeks after retweeting. Analysis done after this time period is NOT a factual/accurate representation of the DATA. Are there any DATA scientists that can look into tis phenomena?
Though I fully grasp that it is important not to lose focus on the challenges that women face because of their sex, sometimes I feel that there is a little too much attention given to the perceived 'threat' of trans people to the position of women who are born women. It's an interesting debate and all, but there are not really that many transwomen, and not many cases of transwomen causing problems in single sex spaces etc. It all seems a bit overinflated to me! Maybe it would be more fruitful to just continue to focus on the other, much more prevalent and serious ways in which women are discriminated against within our society?
It only takes one male in a female space, service or competition to turn that into a mixed-sex place. The fact that there are relatively few "transwomen" around doesn't really help, say, the 100 women in a prison finding themselves forced to shower alongside one naked male. Or the 10 women in a race who all shuffle down a place because a male has been placed first. Or the 20 women on a hospital ward who must sleep alongside a single male. Especially as trans-identified males have a much higher rate of sexual offending than even other men (and a rate hugely higher than the rate among women). As for there being other important feminist issues - well, indeed! And what a shame that women are being forced to neglect these in order to focus on the "trans" issue. But we do have to tackle this issue first and foremost, because when we lose the ability to even talk about - let alone legislate for - women as a sex category, then all other feminist efforts are in vain. We don't care how people want to dress etc, or if they want to change their names. We are all about breaking down gender norms! But it's a very different thing when the law steps in to force legal fictions upon society as a whole, which ask women to give up our safety and dignity, and demanding we speak in accordance with the semi-religious beliefs of others rather than in alignment with our own senses and beliefs.
