Thread by @shinybluedress

The Govnmt is proposing a law change to make it easier for transgender people to switch the sex on their birth certificates fairplayforwomen.com/backgrd/
Ive lifted text from @fairplaywomen transcript to explain why Im against this law #handsoffmyrights
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Female-only rape crisis centres and domestic violence shelters are vital.
Vulnerable abused women who’ve been traumatised by male violence need male-free spaces to heal #handsoffmyrights

An abused women’s trauma response doesn’t care how someone identifies. Her trauma response may include visceral and unconscious terror at the presence of a male.
This is not transphobia. This is her survival instinct kicking in
#handsoffmyrights

No woman should be shamed for her need to recover from trauma.
The same applies to intimate services where women prefer a female practitioner. #handsoffmyrights

Studies show that women are more likely to attend breast screening if they know that the mammographer is female.
#handsoffmyrights

Sex abuse survivors are less distressed about cervical smears when they know they’ll be performed by a woman.
#handsoffmyrights

If these women can’t be sure of getting an actual biological woman when they specifically request a female nurse, they won’t go to be screened. Their cancer will be missed and lives will be lost.
#handsoffmyrights

It’s vital that employers can use the special rules to hire females for specific jobs.
#handsoffmyrights

The rules are also needed to keep communal changing rooms, dormitories and sleeping compartments on trains single-sex.
Women and girls are uniquely vulnerable when undressed and asleep.
#handsoffmyrights

But if sex self-ID becomes law, you or your daughter could be undressing or sleeping in the presence of males in a space advertised as single sex.
#handsoffmyrights

Sooner or later women and girls will be harmed. Sex self-ID is wide open to abuse. And it has been abused many times over in countries where it is law.
#handsoffmyrights

The safety and privacy of women and girls must not be sacrificed on the altar of a political idea.

I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and this is why I say #handsoffmyrights
PS Before you label me a transphobe, please read the full transcript from @fairplaywomen (see link in the first tweet in this thread)