People who think men will never take advantage of self-ID to access women's spaces baffle me. Of course they will. Let me tell you a story. I was volunteering in a women's shelter when a woman called. She needed to speak to someone, and asked if she could bring a TW friend. (1/)
Shelter said "yes". However when woman and "TW" show up, it was clear that this had been a lie. The person who showed up was a man. 6ft5, muscular, entirely male presenting (bar nail polish). Went by a male name, but asked for female pronouns. (2/)
Shelter lets them in on the basis of the female pronouns. "TW" and female friend go to speak to individual case workers. Within 10 minutes, friend was referring to "TW" with male pronouns. The female pronoun business had been used just to get this man into the shelter. (3/)
Why? Unsure. To speak to, he had been nice enough. But how much can you honestly tell from a minute's conversation? That is however the risk the female case workers had to take by letting him in. If he had been violent, there would have been little we could have done. (4/)
Not to mention the shelter exists to help women who have faced, or are continuing to face, male violence and abuse. Seeing a man in this space can be hugely triggering. The shelter doesn't even allow male delivery drivers or male inspectors in. (5/)
This shelter also serves women who are escaping men and male violence. Women who need a space to be safe from violent pimps or Johns, abusive husbands or family members. The minute you allow any man who self-IDs in, you open up the space to abusers. (6/)
In this case, I think this man used self-ID to access this shelter simply because it's nicer than the local men's shelters. But that is not what women's shelters are for. Women's spaces do not exist as a substitute for poor male facilities. (7/)
After this incident, the shelter revised its policy on "TW" and self-ID. But many shelters still operate on self-ID, and too many people in power want to see all women's spaces admit men. Simply, this is dangerous and puts women at risk, and men will take advantage. (8/ 8 )
在推特上看到的，立場上看帳號可以知道推主是基進女性主義者，她說她當過庇護所志工，遇到一個生理男要求住進女子收容所，並獲得了許可。這或許不是什麼正式的報導，只是個人經驗的小故事，但我覺得還是值得一看。這個故事裡面沒有什麼可怕的壞人，比較不用擔心被觸發創傷。
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監獄亦同。
本來無須配槍配棍的女子監獄也要開始增加武器鎮暴配置跟男性獄卒，而好不容易減少的男性獄卒性侵女囚的問題又會再度惡化。
可對照加拿大溫哥華的舊文，一家女性庇護所因為只收容生理女性，遭跨女政治家Morgane Oger報復，被剝奪政府贊助。
生理男還會受父權框架的「不要大欺小」制約，跨女根本兩邊好處都要拿。
是跨男贏過跨女