UK — . Transgender model Munroe Berf claims to feel unsafe in women’s presence.
Women are “writing articles which are having a really negative impact on trans women,” the model said, continuing:
I don’t feel safe because of other women. That’s really weighing heavily on me. I want to get people to think about how this narrative is affecting the transgender members of our society.
Why Women Speak
Women are using our words to express disagreement with an ideology that dehumanizes us, an ideology that erases our legal identifiers, and with it, our ability to have our natural human rights enshrined into and protected by law.
The notion that a man can achieve the state of being a woman by wishful thinking or popping pills – as if women and girls are a state of nirvana rather than actual human beings – or by putting on a costume, is a notion that dehumanizes women. It is also invalidating of the unique physiological and biological processes of our bodies, to our lived reality.
Your “identity” comes at the expense of women’s humanity and human rights.
Redefining women and girls as an identity or a concept within a man’s head is insulting.
Reducing oppression faced by women and girls around the world – being most victims of human sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, rape, intimate partner homicide, child marriage, and the victims of sex-selective abortion, sex-selective infanticide, female genital mutilation – to a choice that girls, women and even unborn female embryos make – is insulting. A female infant isn’t asked which “gender” she identifies as before she is killed and thrown in the dump.
Yes, we as women will speak out, and we will stop you.
You have the right to dress as you like and to be as feminine as you please, but you do not have the right to redefine women, and in doing so, to eliminate our rights, and our ability to teach and learn about our reproductive health and unique medical needs.
For example, girls need to know that they are members of the sex that can get pregnant.
For example, women need to know that symptoms of a heart attack can completely differ in women. A woman’s heart attack symptoms can simply be abdominal distress or fatigue. Doctors do not often know this, as most medical studies are conducted on men, who are more likely to have such immediately alarming symptoms as severe chest pain. Thus, women are more likely than men to die of a heart attack despite having lower heart attack rates. With men now participating in medical studies while identifying as women, and with men who identify as women selfishly and ignorantly silencing discussions of female biology as “triggering,” the risks to women’s health will rise.
Women are not required to believe your fairytales in order to be decent and tolerant members of society.
Women are not required to put our health and survival on the backburner to soothe your egos.
Women are not required to sacrifice the human rights that we and our fore-mothers fought for over centuries and generations to cater to your fantasies.
Transgender Crime Statistics
Mr. Bergdorf went on to state, “Unfortunately it’s got to do with a narrative – the trans people are a threat to cisgender women. There no statistics to show that this is the case.”
Au contraire, sir. While being transgender does not equal being a criminal, being biologically male does equal a higher average rate of criminality.
Within each nation around the world, approximately 5-6% of prison inmates are women, and over 70% of these female inmates are convicted for non-violent crimes, mainly property crimes. Meanwhile, 94-95% of inmates are consistently biologically male, regardless of nation. Seven percent of transgender people are incarcerated during their lifetimes, compared with 2.7 percent of the general population, and most incarcerated transgender individuals are biologically male.
Men who identify as trans women have killed, physically attacked and raped women and girls at at least the same rate that other men have committed such acts against women.
According to a longitudinal peer-reviewed study on post-op transgender persons that is published in a highly-regarded academic journal,
Male-to-females had a significantly increased risk for crime compared to female controls, but not compared to males. This indicates that they retained a male pattern regarding criminality. The same was true regarding violent crime.
Additionally, as The Times reported:
Some 48% of transgender prisoners are sex offenders, the Ministry of Justice said in a freedom of information answer earlier this year, compared with less than 20% of the prison population as a whole.
“A government survey has counted 125 transgender prisoners in England and Wales. … 60 of them have been convicted of one or more sexual offences,” the Guardian specifies.
These statistics and studies on transgender crime were collected from data in various nations.
Who Murders Male Transgender Persons? Are Most of These Murders Hate Crimes?
The killers of men who identify as trans women are overwhelmingly men.
Yet, men who identify as trans women do not have hateful slurs for the men who kill them. They spit the slur “TERF” at women who ask questions or express disagreement with gender fairytales or show concern for our own health or rights.
Women’s growing awareness of the fact that men who identify out of their gender have a similar pattern and rate of criminality as other men does not indicate that women agree with men harming or killing their gender-nonconforming counterparts. It means that women deserve to maintain a legal label that enables us to be written about in law so that our human rights – which we fought for – are preserved. We will fight to ensure this.
Few of the men who murder trans persons kill them over transgender status.
The vast majority of male transgender persons who are murdered are in prostitution, and most of these are brown men in Central and South American nations, followed by black men in the US. These murders are due to the dangers of the sex trade, which often involve organized crime and necessitate individuals meeting up with shady men who see them as a collection of orifices to rent for temporary pleasure. Being alone with a man who does not respect your humanity can be dangerous. Prostituted women are murdered at high rates, too – higher than the rate at which male transgender persons in the sex industry are killed.
The fact that white trans-identified men are rarely murdered shows that being transgender is not the murder risk.
Given these facts, it is false that women put gender non-conforming men in danger by refusing to pretend that they are women.
Why Do Men Who Identify As Trans Women Claim Fear of Women?
I believe that the common claim by male transgender individuals that women make them feel “unsafe” is a way of fetishizing the vulnerable position that women and girls often find ourselves in in society for biological and reproductive reasons. No man worries that walking down the road at night, he will be attacked, raped, impregnated and infected with STDs by an armed woman. We have greater fears of persons of male biology than biologically male persons have of us based on biological and reproductive reality.
By claiming to “fear” women, male transgender persons can invalidate women’s actual vulnerability. They associate vulnerability with being a woman, and therefore, wish to co-opt this in order to feel valid in their gender identity. By falsely presenting themselves as the most vulnerable, they can then center themselves as the only authentic women, and the only people in need of legal protection.
It is offensive to women to fetishize our vulnerability. Our lives are not a game or sex roleplay that we do for fun or kink.
We will continue to speak and write for our human rights.
If our speech makes you uncomfortable, then we’re doing something right. You should be made to feel very uncomfortable about trampling on the basic human rights of another group.
Read more on this story
Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf: I don’t feel safe because of other women
The Irish News
Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf has said “other women” are making her feel unsafe. Bergdorf accused women of creating a hostile environment for transgender people and characterising them as a “threat”. The mixed-race former L’Oreal model, who lost her job following allegations of anti-white racism, said she is worried about the impact of women on transgender people.
Great article
I find it interesting that Manroe claims to feel threatened by ‘cis’ women when he himself has been on a morning talk show in the UK advocating for these dangerous school programs that push transition nonsense onto children as young as five! These children are actually being groomed for transition when maybe what these children need is simply to be allowed to go through a phase until they grow out of it! That would be the humane thing to do. What Manroe advocates is child abuse.
Period.
That is dreadful! Children experiment (in the real sense of the word) with lots of things – that’s how they learn. Some of them will prefer activities and behaviours associated with their opposite gender – so what?
OK – they may be transexual; but hey may be gtay; they may be straight but just prefer different things. Why put them in a box and label them before they’ve even had a chance to experience what is out there?
Pushing young children into irreparable body modification is not only abuse – it is a power kick.
No one is “transgender.” It’s just another made-up category, but one that is horrifically female-hating.
Just another entitled, abusive man. One can always tell these TIMs are male as they ALWAYS follow the first rule of misogyny: Women are responsible for what men do.
Absolute!y right on target!
These gender pusher sex-frauds are lying. The lie? That they know what it’s like to “be a woman”.
No. These queers just know what watching a lot of porno about woman is like.
Female impersonators feel envy, if they are threatened it’s because they are miserable entitled males with womb envy.
Know what it is like to “be a woman”? Bollox!
When they’ve been up all night with a baby with earache, taken a couple of other kids to school, made a doctor’s appointment, listened to their partner complain about his/her boss for an hour, and in the meantime washed, cooked, cleaned, walked the dog, got a dead pigeon out of the gutters, helped with homework, made costume for a school play, checked on an elderly relative, done his shopping and cooked his tea, tidied the garden, cleaned out the rabbit, had to walk the length of the street in the rain with the shopping, a grizzly toddler and two other kids because some (male) tosser has double parked across the drive- well they might have an idea of what it feels like to be a woman – or at least, what it feels like to be THAT woman.
Women are not an amorphous mass. We are unique individuals. I was born female,but I don’t know what it’s like to “feel like woman” – I know what it’s like to feel like me. And sometimes not even that.
Pauline, I see what you are going for, but that is not my experience. I spent much of three years parenting our baby and toddler (who aged out of those brackets, of course) and taking care of my ill spouse doing most of the traditional stay-at-home mom things. I may have a fair grasp on the experience of being a stay-at-home parent, but I still have no better understanding of having that experience as a woman. I experienced it as a man. Which included being praised and congratulated for doing basic child raising things in a way that women general aren’t.
It certainly did help me appreciate more the work of stay at home mothers, single parents of both sexes and mothers saddled with being “primary parent” on top of a career. But it did not let me “feel like a woman”. I don’t think a change of clothes and some makeup would do it, either. Even if I had had the time.
I don’t think that Pauline was ignoring stay at home Dads. But you have to admit that Mothers are by far the primary caregivers of their children. I think she was coming from the point of view that it is almost unheard of to hear about the experiences of transwomen/men as stay at home “Moms”. I’ve actually never even heard of one. All of the transwomen/men that I have seen or read about are “foot loose and fancy free”. Which is quite funny since most actual women are Wives and/or Mothers, and have little to no free time in which to go around saying “poor me”. Most stay at home Mothers and working outside the home Mothers don’t even usually wear make-up or high-heels! They are secure in who they are, and frankly, where would they get the time in which to stand in front of a mirror for an extra 1/2 to 1 hour, or why would they want to endure the discomfort of high heels – extremely good causes excepted. Transwomen/men are a caricature of actual females because often they compensate by simulating stereotypical female appearances/traits in an over the top way: make up, clothes, gestures, speech, emotions. Calling oneself a “transvestite” instead of a “woman” is more genuine, honest and accurate. And those men who call themselves transvestites instead of women deserve praise for it.
“Deserve praise” is, perhaps, far stronger than I would put it. I would say that men who have not lost touch with reality and think they have become women by changing clothes are at least not participating in the erasure of women’s legal identifier, which is needed to enshrine our rights in law. I stop short of praising these men for having and displaying common sense and some basic moral dignity, as those are just basics all humans should be minimally contributing.
Praise, I feel, should be reserved for those who go above and beyond. While #NotAllMen, I would like to see more take social action to reduce the overall male rate of physical and sexual criminality. What are the risk factors? What actions can men take within their homes and communities to reduce this phenomenon and help create a safer world for their children? How can more masculine men make effeminate men feel safe and welcome as brothers so that the effeminate ones quit feeling they are on the bottom of the male pecking order and responding by trying to colonizing women, the sex they can feel superior within?
A great read! All the things that are wrong with the whole TERF debate, written down on point and explained as well as debunked in a reasonable way. It’s so ironic how much misogyny is allowed in the debate. Transactivism has become female erasure at so many points, it actually scares me. And yet trans women claim we are the problem. Women are neither responsible for cis men‘s transphobia nor for trans women’ insecurities! Women are entitled to first and foremost defend the rights they and the feminists before them fought for. A biological male‘s gender issues are not our responsibility. (I apologize for any spelling mistakes, not a native speaker.)
If tras were really afraid of women, they stop bothering us. Just another example of their pathetic DARVO.
They can’t face the fact that their enemy is men (the enemy of all) because that would be admitting that they are men and just as violent as any others.
I sure hope more people start waking up to these #transparadoxes.
Excellent article. Thanks.
If you ask me they are making it unsafe for themselves thats the choice they made ,its actually not safe for us because the lie about who they are ,their life is a lie you cant run from who you really are ,also you cant expect people to agree with the choice you made and to just force it on people is not ok its selfish in order to get respect you have to give it starting with yourself..selfless, own your truth and give people a chance to say yes or no dont force it its not right and it never turns out good stop lieing to other men and then blame them when it goes wrong ,then two lives destroyed because of one person’s selfish choices….GOD bless all
Thank you for this excellent article. I’ve often heard people in the trans community using the word ‘unsafe’ and found it really annoying. As a female who when I was a bit younger almost on a daily basis was subject to comments, attacks and abuse from males, seeing men use this word is galling and offensive. Diana has articulated so well why this is an unreasonable use of the word. I love the righteous anger, clarity and honesty here, it’s so refreshing to read a woman standing up so strongly for herself and others, thanks for your work and keep going.
Thank you for the encouragement, Greengate. ♥
Transgenderism is men fetishising their male objectification and abuse of women. Males make women unsafe, therefore men larp as women and get off on the idea that they are ‘unsafe feeling women’, when they have nothing to fear. These men are really disgusting.
This cult/movement openly parades MEN CONVICTED OF MURDER OR RAPE (trying to get into WOMEN’S PRISONS)….around as a “civil rights accomplishment” for crissake!
I mean(?): if someone is going to double-down on stuff like THAT (as well as: not even understanding 20 million years of human biological REALITY in the first place), why would they feel it was the rest of the world’s responsibility to feed their very sick and deluded ego no questions asked (apparently?).
Women don’t care. The facts speak for themselves. It is not biological women committing violent sex crimes. Men who say they are women and put on so called ‘female’ clothes , just get away from us, in prison, refuges, female sex spaces, crisis and refuge centres. You are still physically men.