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Interestingly, it is common for TRAs to say that "asking a man to leave a women's changing room or toilet" is "violence"
It looks like someone has joined in with transam's gibberish.
Asking someone, anyone to leave the room. is not violence. I've frequently been asked to leave the room, even the building at closing time. It's never been violent.
Unbelievable if true..
Of course, it is. Except it's highly unlikely to be true.
Your response has cleared up a few things," We understand that the prohibition of access to the restroom constitutes a form of gender violence and discrimination"
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.652777/full
1. You don't have personal experience of any such thing.
2. Your comment was based on a theoretical paper.
3. It is not a common occurrence, contrary to your claim. It was one incident in Brazil.
4. The one person who related the tale did not claim it as violence. They said it was humiliating.
5. The reference to violence was "gender violence" encapsulated within a discussion about unsupported and undeserved discrimination. "We understand that the prohibition of access to the restroom constitutes a form of gender violence and discrimination, as we conclude that the arguments that express concerns about safety are not supported."
6. There is no indication that the person concerned was a TRA, which is very different to simply being transgender.
7. Indeed the security guard in question could be described as a TERF. That would explain his actions. So if we want to bandy terminology about, lets. trade urban terminology.
8. The theoretical paper was a discourse on the lack of facilities for transgender people: "The lack of access of the transgender population to public restrooms ". So a transgender person has to make a choice between two options.
In summary, your original comment has been proven to be totally untrue.
Incidentally, there are between 300,000 and 500,000 transgenders in UK. UK is less than 1% of the world's population.
So a quick and dirty extrapolation suggests that there are about 50,000,000 transgender people world-wide.
I would suggest that they deserve recognition.