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Counterpoint to your counterpoint.
Women have been negatively affected as well. Somehow do you square that circle. The world is not a utopia. So taking a Utilitarian approach the benefit would be in the positive towards women. Which is the greater number of those affected.
Leaving aside that you're treating "women" as separate from "trans women", which women? Who has been negatively affected by letting trans women pee in peace? And now this is going to negatively affect cis women as well as trans women. And this hysteria over trans women is already doing harm to cis women even before the supreme court ruling. Literally all of this is just worse for women, over some imagined problem that this was supposed to "fix".
I'm fully aware that you aren't arguing in good faith so this will be my last response to you
I'm not arguing. I'm having a discussion. This place is the same as Reddit. No actual conversation if you don't buy in to the belief systems here.
The Supreme Court has stated that Women actually means something and it is defined Biologically. The fact that we live in a world where that even needs to be confirmed is insanity.
Woman means adult human female, and Man means Human Adult Male. That is the literal definition.
There is no ambiguity here. There was and that was the issue. Yes people will be affected, but women having a safe space and being allowed to go about their days without fear of reprisals for wanting women only spaces is a win.
I was far from a feminist in my younger years but the way women are treated now is abhorrent. Especially in sports and places like Changing rooms.
You can argue a trans Women is a women all you like but you had to prefix and the law supports my viewpoint, and the vast majority of those in society and rightly so.
Exactly my point