So, the other day, I ran across a new anti-trans group here in Alberta (shocker, I know). This one calls itself "Women and Girls Alberta". As you might expect, they make the usual assortment of arguments as to why transgender women have to be shoved out of society.
Now, a few things caught my attention, and I think warrant a moment or two of my time to comment on.
First is their discussion about crime and in particular violence towards women.
The opening assertion here is that recognizing trans women somehow erodes women's safety. I want to be clear here: I don't think anybody is here to discount the impact of violence on women - least of transgender women. There's a "yabbut" here though: they are going to proceed to claim that transgender women present unique dangers to women because ... they had a penis once.
There are a series of claims made in this type of argument to establish alleged danger, and I'm going to go through them and explain the problems with the claim and the evidence upon which that claim is based.
