Protecting women

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"Protecting women" is often claimed as justification for doing things which, at best, do not protect women and at worst harm them (even if you don't count trans women or trans men).

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• 2025/01/21 01:51 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT «This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.» It's difficult to find any part of this that isn't a blatant lie.
• 2018/12/07 [L..T] Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up «"Our side concocted the 'bathroom safety' male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions," the post read [, but] the LGBT lobby has now figured out how to beat it. Their lopsided victory in Massachusetts will likely be repeated everywhere else unless the establishment pro-family groups (and their wealthy donors) are willing to change their tactics."» Amazing how they don't seem to see either "concocting" a narrative or having "wealthy donors" as a problem.