1.Of course. Yourself and other trans cheerleaders have based your arguments on the notion that it would be far too much effort for some predator to abuse gender self-ID in pursuing their sexual fetishes and fantasies.
2. And now with Yaniv we see that your basic assumption is just plain wrong. Life lesson: never underestimate how far some men are willing to go in pursuing their sexual fantasies.
Yaniv is the most well known, but certainly not the first or last. We know of others, but none of them have made international spectacles of themselves the way Yaniv has. How many more Yanivs are out there that are flying under the radar? We have no way of knowing. Nonetheless, we now have this individual who has gained notoriety to a degree that xe just can't be ignored by the press, and so the goalposts move from "That never happens" to "Not all trans!"
But nobody ever argued that all trans people are perverts or predators. The argument is and always has been that on-demand gender self-id would be exploited by perverts and predators.
Which is why it's so crucial that we silence Murphy and others like her, amirite?
-k
1. I resent being called a 'trans cheerleader'. Though we have differed on points, I don't feel we are far apart on what we basically want, and certainly I trust your intellectual honesty that you generally are looking for a solution that makes our communities happier.
It feels like you are losing humour, and starting to lose kim-ness in the face of this controversy, which makes me sad.
I don't remember making any argument like that earlier. I generally agree that designing group rights around the possibility of abusers like this is a bad idea, but I also agree that psychopaths and other bad actors exist.
2. I don't think either of us know what this person's motives were, only that their case failed and they were penalized for using racialized language targeting complaintants, ie. bad faith use of the system.
3. "The argument is and always has been that on-demand gender self-id would be exploited by perverts and predators. " Was that the argument ? Ok so what do we do with that ? Ban penises from women's shelters ? Is that what we want ? And sports should exclude based on the hormone level of the participant ?
4. "Which is why it's so crucial that we silence Murphy and others like her, amirite?" She denies that trans women are women which is a world apart from the suggestions I put forward in #3 above.