The Ecnomist
A system of gender self-identification would put women at risk
Many women who work with some of the most vulnerable women and girls in our society also fear that predatory men, who often go to great lengths to gain access to vulnerable women, would abuse the notion of gender self-identity and take advantage of the new orthodoxy that someone can be trans without undergoing any physical changes (with hormones or surgery) or changing their behaviour. In other words, biological males can look, sound and act exactly like average males, but are trans women if they say they are. What could be more helpful for a predatory man who seeks to masquerade as a trans woman? In fact, such an abuse has already happened. In 2012 Christopher Hambrook assaulted women in two homeless shelters in Toronto, gaining access by falsely claiming he was a trans woman. State law had changed earlier that year to recognise self-declared gender identity. In 2014 he was found guilty of sexual assault and criminal harassment.
おれが、
変態との区別をどうするか How very dare you! I have never been so insulted!"
で指摘していた問題意識。
Many women do not want to be defined, once again, by the very gender norms that have disadvantaged them from birth: passivity, selfless accommodation to others (especially men), meekness, reserve, being measured by looks rather than deeds and so on. These are norms that constrain and demean women. Many of us insist that, fundamentally, women are members of a sex with shared biology and socialisation. Biological sex is real and is the very foundation of our species.
社会的性でもって生物的性を消去できない、と。
We need to recognise that there are two disadvantaged groups here. We need to protect single-sex provision for women and affirm everyone’s right to break out of life-limiting gender norms, while simultaneously acting to improve trans lives, systems and services in ways that do not undermine women
女性が女性でありながら、受け身、無私、他人に合わせるのが、うまくて、おとなしくて、控えめ、行動より見かけで評価されるなど、従来の女性的規範を克服し、なおかつ、トランス女性の生活や彼女らに対する制度、サービスの向上をする道もあるんだ、というんだけど・・・具体的に、どんな感じになるのか提示されていないようにおもうね。
