The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.

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      Because of Transmisogyny. Trans women or trans feminine people in general are seen as a threat to patriarchy and the gender binary. There’s a lot of material on transmisogyny theory but to put it in very simple terms: There’s a hierarchy where men, through being cis and portraying traditional masculinity are afforded personhood, and everyone else is dehumanized and considered either a human incubator or a freak. Cis women and to some extent, afab trans people are subjugated because of a potential to give offspring but are placed on a higher level then those who deviate from this binary. Trans women especially but others like queer/effeminate men can also be othered into this category. To reinforce the binary and thus men’s role in the hierarchy, transmisogyny is the means to do this. It’s also why terfs are a thing, some women, especially privileged cis women, despite being oppressed by men still want to maintain power over trans women.

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      First thing that comes to mind is prisons, most men wouldn’t mind to go to a women’s prison even at the price of being misgendered as they are famously much much nicer than men’s. Also the law offers lots of advantages and help to women that they don’t to men like lighter penal sentences, scholarships, shelter homes for victims of domestic violence…

      These cunts are basically the convergence of transphobia and misandry, for some of them trans men are alienated women that just want to escape sexism against women and trans women are men that want to usurp their womanhood (whatever the fuck that even means). Source: I’ve met and know a bunch of these hateful people.

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        oh… i didn evn kno there are diffrences lik dis… i didn kno “mens prisons” and “womens prisons” exist… mayb thads a US or UK thing… im jus a dum lil European here…

        thad sounds very sad ;(

        alsu… escaping sexism… like - thad kinda almost sounds reasonabl… i dun lik it, bt if peeps r still sexist in places… god thads sad ;(

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          It’s not a UK/US thing, it’s a whole world thing. Including most (all?) of Europe. There exist co-ed prisons but they aren’t the norm by any means in any country that I know of.

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      Because there are a ton of laws protecting women’s spaces and rights specifically. Not so for men.

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      Transphobes think all trans people are scary rapist men looking for a way past the impenetrable magic barrier that only lets women into women’s toilets, and that there’s no reason anyone would want to go into the men’s toilets, so trans men are fictional and don’t need or want any rights, just like the law doesn’t give rights to elves and hobgoblins.

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        well… no, thats specifically transwomen… so theyr mostli jus angri agnst transwomen? thad… thad meks me vrri sad ;(

        so theyr not transphobic. theyr transfemphobic… ;(

        i wsh i were a grl ;;;;;;;;;;((((((