The Hunter & The Hunted.

 Have two different views on trans people, a new survey found that men and women see trans people differently.

Cis men are driving Britain’s anti-trans hostility – the data proves it
With politicians from both major UK parties pitting trans rights against women’s rights, data journalist Ell Folan reveals that it’s cis men, not women, who are fuelling anti-trans sentiment.
Pink News
By Ell Folan
August 15, 2023

It’s become common for politicians to act as if transgender rights and women’s rights are inherently contradictory and conflicting.

Prime minister Rishi Sunak blocked Scotland’s gender reform law citing “potential concerns around safety of women”, while Labour’s Anneliese Dodds has ruled out self-ID for trans people and vowed to “defend” single-sex spaces.

But, research shows that when they take these positions, Britain’s political class are not actually speaking for women. Far from seeing transgender rights as encroaching on their own, most British women in fact favour rights for trans and non-binary – it’s men who are the most vocal and determined in opposing them.

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One of the main arguments made by Labour and the Conservatives around blocking self-ID for trans people is their desire to “defend” single-sex spaces for women.

But, when asked, 45 per cent of women said trans women should be able to use female toilets but almost half of the men surveyed opposed the idea. When it came to refuges, 45 per cent of women had no trouble with the suggestion but 43 per cent of men did.

Okay the question is why are men against us?

You know that I have a theory on this.

Men are the hunters… and many of them are very homophobic. And when they see a “hot” woman they worry that if she is trans his friends might think him gay. And that freaks out many men, so much so that they even get into fights over it… “You calling gay!”

While I think women see us as another oppressed group by men.

What, then, can we learn from all this? For one thing, there absolutely is a strong current of anti-trans sentiment in public opinion. But, notably, women are not the vocal ones.

It is in fact men who hold on to transphobic views, and men who are firm in believing that trans women should be kept out of women’s spaces – even as women themselves are fine with the idea.