Three Men and Transphobic Babies
The tide may be turning on Twitter
Three men walked into Twitter this week to defend males in female spaces. It starts like an old joke but the three men could easily be the archetype priest, rabbi, and vicar walking into a bar, because they do represent particular types of men. I am happy to say the men had their proverbial backsides handed back to them by a growing hoard of determined feminists and concerned citizens.
When we talk of single sex spaces, we are frequently presented with the ladies’ toilet and the innocent, perfectly passing “trans woman”, who is no danger to what are fashionably called “cis women and girls”, and who I will refer to now, and always, as women and girls.
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 97% of all sexual violence is committed by men. This means in the crudest sense single-sex spaces are about as effective as a condom if your goal is a space free of sexual risk.
Let’s put that aside for a minute and take into account that 1 in 6 women have experienced at least one incident of sexual assault since the age of 15. In 2018, the rate of police-recorded sexual assaults against children aged 0–14 was nearly twice that of people aged 15 and over (AIHW). The overwhelming majority of these victims were girls. But it must be noted that males are no time more vulnerable to sexual violence than when they are boys. At this point in their life, they often have access to single-sex spaces when they are in the custody of a female carer, usually their mother.
This issue is not just about risk, it’s also about comfort. Everyone’s brain is always “gathering and assessing information from inside and outside your body and making decisions about whether you are safe and well or whether you are at risk from harm” according to Trauma Specialist and Psychotherapist Alison Woodward. She says that the part of the brain doing this is called the Amygdala, and it “is constantly scanning our environment and is assessing whether we are safe against memories of what we have experienced before.” This process works outside of consciousness and means that women gain psychological ease in single-sex spaces that is unique to them.
I know from my own experience; it took years to recover emotionally and psychologically from sexual violence. I found men difficult to trust, I still am not what they call “a hugger” and especially not with men who are not my husband. I have a happy marriage that I attribute to the healing I gained from God, friends, therapy, and an exceptional man. But in public I still value single-sex spaces, so my brain doesn’t go into hyper-vigilance when I need to use publicly available sex-segregated facilities.
The female population of Australia is just under 13 million, if 20% of those are girls according to the AIHW statistics, we can safely assume that 1.7 million women and 840,000 girls in Australia are living with some form of trauma from sexual assault, this doesn’t even take into account non-sexual violence. And yet we are completely re-engineering women’s single-sex spaces to cater for a psychological discomfort some men have with their own bodies.
I have been told directly that this hyper-vigilance coded into my brain by biology and trauma, is called Transphobia. Aiden Comerford, the Irish “comedian” told me that just as racists blame immigrants for their problems, so “transphobes do the same with trauma from abuse”.
Transgender head of Edinburgh Rape Crisis (ERCC) Mridul Wadhwa, told women who wanted rape recovery spaces free of males, that they had to “reframe their trauma” to not recognise transgender women as males. In the pursuit to reframe trauma as transphobia, there is another biological problem.
Just as facial recognition software “misgenders trans people”, adult human females are built to clock an adult human male, even past a transgender identity, with more accuracy than any piece of software or any male on the planet. If recognition of male and female is transphobic, humans are wired from birth to be transphobic via male and female sex recognition that is coded in infancy. That does unfortunately mean that babies are transphobic. And because of science, women are more transphobic than men.
So the first man to walk into a Twitter bar of transphobic women, who refuse to reframe their trauma, was talk radio host James Max.
Max took on Kellie-Jay Keen on transgender issues saying that “somebody could be born in somebody else’s body”, and that this is science-based in “physicality”. Keen said this was “absolute nonsense”. Developmental Biologist, Emma Hilton commented that James had himself come “out of one of those physicalities ” and author of feminist birthing books Milli Hill said that he was speaking “out of a neighbouring one. #biology.”
I regret to inform you James doubled down in a series of tweets where he was mercilessly called to account by women, women that he then called “shrill”. Suffice to say he seems to be having a tough twitter week.
Then into the bar walks in a wokish looking young man who calls himself a “Political Correspondent & Presenter” with GB News, Tom Harwood. Tom, this time taking Kellie-Jay Keen over single-sex girls school refusing boys. Harwood considered the exclusion of trans-identified boys from girl’s schools rather “rude”. Women frequently have their politeness and “niceness” appealed to in this debate, and many of us consider it a form of rape culture because it is an attempt to erode women’s sexual boundaries by suggesting saying “no” to men is impolite.
Tom contended that the majority of people disagree with Keen. Kellie-Jay then pointed out that when vulnerable family are involved, most people will revert to the biological definition of male in order to protect women they love in favor of politeness. Tom considered this “an extraordinary position” and has been mercilessly trolled for his ignorance and spineless failure to listen to women.
The third man waling into our bar full of transphobic women and babies is Boy George himself, who after some time on the gender-neutral fence has come out in favor of men in women’s spaces. “Trans people are not a threat to women or female spaces. All the trans women I know carry themselves with grace and respect for the goddess energy.” George boldly declared.
Here we have again the “gender spirit” mythology, that all men seeking access to women’s spaces have a female gender spirit and they can be completely trusted to declare this with all honesty and integrity. The female lizard brain, the female broken bodies, the female experience, aggregate crime statistics and babies, all testify against Boy George on this one.
The biggest mistake Boy George seemed to make was coming against JK Rowling and her band of supporters with a trademark air of moral superiority. George reposted a quote from Rowling with his comment “I remember when JK had an imagination!”. His tweet got It got 360 likes from his 474.7K twitter followers. @luluchops1 with 5.4 K followers replied, as follows;
Lulu spoke of a deeper reality.
There is as good a reason that Boy George aligns himself with the forces of cultural power that will shield his weakness. He is much easier to cancel than Rowling, and it is for that reason that he places his own protection ahead of women and children. Spineless men are coming out of the woodwork on this issue and they are on the wrong side of science, psychology, history, and more importantly, decency.
Brilliant read - thank you.
Excellent read, thank you.