Came across briefly a piece of TERF rhetoric when not fully awake, so it bounced in my head a little; I’ll now clear it out. Aside from inaccuracy of saying girls like me are male, which as a biologist I say we are not, she claimed that while there may be cis woman “bathroom predators”, they are fewer and while it is not possible to police them, policing trans women by keeping us out of “womens’ spaces” should be possible, since we can be recognized on sight.

This is perfectly analogous to racial profiling today in Western societies, and perfectly analogous to the Japanese internment camps during the war. In the name of “fighting terrorism” or “fighting crime” or “fighting the Axis”, the line of argument would be that if a demographic actually can be visually distinguished, it is acceptable to cause harm to all its members to prevent wrongdoing from some fraction.

The extension would be that being indistinguishable from the mainstream and therefore not possible to profile is the only thing that can protect you from preventive discriminatory action.

A child in a basement in Omelas, if you will.

I don’t think we want that kind of ethics, even if they were expedient. And here I am quite certain they are not.

I also wonder what fraction of people in public restrooms clock me, these days?