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JAS's avatar

I kept thinking that exact thought. The woman wasn't mis-seeing anything. She was seeing a male. Not someone she "perceived" to be a male. A true actual male. In the girls/women's changing room.

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LL's avatar

I think it is like this. She saw a male in the women's changing room. She incorrectly perceived that male as a man. And THAT is why it is all fucked up. Sex is now immaterial

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Wild Horses's avatar

I don't think that she was "incorrect" in perceiving the male as a man. Her perception may not align with that male's perception or progressive orthodoxy, but "incorrect" implies some type of objective standard.

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LL's avatar

I had a whole thing written out. So. Ok. The transwoman perceives herself as a woman. She cannot control how others see her. I have to say. I am torn. If someone has spent years looking at their body and wondering why there is a penis there, I cannot imagine how awful it must feel to be addressed as a man. On the other band. It is insane that trans women are supposed to be viewed as women and treated as women. Addressed as women? Sure. But why are trans women allowed in women's changing rooms, especially when 4 months previously they would not have been

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