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On a post about Great Britains sex-based spaces laws that was painted as trans people being “banned” from public restrooms, I pointed out that they are not banned, they just have to use the ones that are for their sex.

Nothing incorrect there. 100% factually correct. Sex and gender are constantly spoken about as being separate things now, since sex is not changeable (despite what the person who replied thinks)

I was then permanently banned for “transphobia”:

Do they even understand what a phobia is?

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Note that yptb is not your second chance to argue for bio-essentialsm. We will ban your ass if you try to continue arguing for your bigoted opinions here, even if you try to masquerade it.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't lemmy.world have rules against transphobia or attacks against marginalized groups in their terms of service?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This chud was very careful to toe the line and not outright say it.

Really? Well maybe at first but I thought his mask slipped off pretty hard towards the end.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, whether knowingly or not you are being transphobic. The subject is about people of gender identities different than what they were assigned at birth being forced to use the spaces aligning to how they were assigned at birth. This practice is transphobic and dangerous as fuck to many trans people, you do realize that trans women are at severe risk of being raped and assaulted when they are forced to use men's bathrooms right?

You're not going to get much sympathy from others when you openly and intentionally parrot transphobic talking points and downplay the severity of trans experiences. ~~YDI.~~

Edit: Your comments in this thread are proof that you are a transphobe. YDM.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Andrea Dworkin:

“Women intend to save themselves when sacrificing some women, but only the freedom of all women protects any woman.”

YDM.

OP got what he deserved. Instance banned on his home server.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] redrumBot@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

YDM.

And sex is a phenotypic trait, and traits are can be changed and trans people usually change some of the traits expected in a male or femele person .

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sex is a mix of chromosomes, hormone levels, primary and secondary sex characteristics

Transition changes hormones, secondary sex characteristics, and to some extent (with bottom surgery), primary sex characteristics

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Something I always find fascinating is that people insist that sex is meaningful and yet almost nobody knows theirs. Instead what they know is what genitals they have and what their secondary sex characteristics are.

Like OP, have you had your chromosomes tested? Do you actually know what sex you are, or are you basing that off how hormones have made your body develop?

You were probably banned because it's basically a transphobic talking point. Like you're saying "Trans men aren't banned from a toilet, a big hairy man with a fucking beard just needs to walk into the ladies". The realistic outcome of that is violence, and visa versa for transwomen.

In effect this is a defacto ban.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

YTA; trans women are women and trans men are men. Forcing them to use sex-based spaces based on the gender assigned to them at birth is not only an overt act of misgendering, but also puts such individuals at a far greater risk of harm given a far greater chance of standing out.

[–] KamikazeKobold@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sex is changeable though. It's called a sex-change surgery for a reason. Many transgender people get those surgeries to align their physical sex with their gender.

[–] minty@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

The part thats transphobic in my view is not allowing trans folk use the toilet that alignw with their actual gender.

Sex != gender? Sure. I dont care tho, this is a question for medical science.

Having a fully transitioned women with tits and lip stick going into the mens toilet is just ridiculous. Alternatively, having a trans man with a beard with massive muscles in the womens toilet is equally absurd.

It is also ridiculous to have such a villainisation of non passing trans folk using the toilet of their gender. What are we gonna do, bite you?

Toilets should be seperated by gender, not sex. Segregation based on sex isnt even enforcable anyway.

Also the toilets arent made for your sex (other than urinals I suppose). An actual toilet is sex agnostic.

So yes I do think this idea is transphobic as it places stress on the day to day lives of trans people (i.e nervously asking do i pass or not before entering a toilet). As to whether you should have been banned for that, perhaps they should have been more paitent with you.