# J K Rowling and the trans furore

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 16, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-furore/855795 "2020-06-16T18:05:08Z")\
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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> - it’s somehow disparaging to cisgender women to refer to people who menstruate as “people who menstruate” or “menstruators” rather than “women”; 😕

Well, yeah. Would you like to be reduced to your biological functions? And shouldn’t the people concerned get to decide how they are referred to?

> [@Kimstu](#):
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> - including transgender women in the category “woman” somehow degrades or threatens cisgender women; 😕
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> - not requiring transgender women to physiologically transition somehow increases danger to women from male predators in women’s restrooms etc. 😕 😕 😕 (and what happened to not requiring gender-norm conformity in order to qualify as a “woman”?)

Male predators are unlikely to undergo physical transition in order to gain access to single sex spaces like toilets and prisons and hospital wards. But if all they have to do is wait three months and sign a form, that’s very different. Obviously in the case of restrooms a sign on the door will not keep all predators out, but it does mean businesses etc can legally remove them without being accused of discrimination.

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