Nicole Maines The crux of the trans exclusionary movement and argument rests upon the idea that trans women are a threat to cisgender women’s safety and that, by allowing us to exist in public spaces and allowing us to participate in society, we are taking away from the rights of other women.I’m no stranger to this argument.
The first time I heard it was when I was in middle school. A news article had circulated about my using the girls’ bathroom at my school in Orono, Maine.
There was a girl, probably a grade or two older than me, who said she would be afraid of being in the same changing room as me because “they’re going to look at me while I’m changing.”This didn’t make sense to my middle school brain — my first reaction was, “When.
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