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Third spaces themselves would need more separation of course, putting non violent trans women in the same population as a violent rapist is equally unacceptable IMHO. Again though what is standing against that happening? is it trans activists? do they run prisons in the US/UK? no its a reactionary right wing establishment which tries to get away with the mimimum of prison funding and would attack trans people for asking for such a space as a "waste of money".
The few times you have had a violent trans prisoner put in the womens population I would argue that is a symptom of the uncaring nature of the above system, simply could not be bothered to get its prisoner vetting correct.
As with women's sports as well I can garneted you that if you moved the discussion to conditions in women's prisons, rapes and assault by non trans people(which are vastly higher), women being separated from their children, general poor conditions which lead to high rates of suicide, etc suddenly these great defenders of women's rights would change their tune, suddenly it would be "crims getting what they deserve".
I think the largest block to third spaces is transactivists themselves who refuse to entertain that notion and argue only for trans people to be included in women's restrooms and prisons and shelters. It is not enough that they are recognized as trans people. They want men to be recognized as actual women and given every single, right and privilege that women have. This is where Kathleen Stock argues that they are engaging in a fiction and that no one should be required to engage in that fiction with them.
And it should be stated that it is not always trans people who are arguing for this but more the transactivists who seem to be vapid, closed-minded, rigid and narcissistic.
When discussing this issue with a transactivist on this very site, I brought up the point that men are being given women's positions in short lists and women's funding for women set aside specifically for women because they claim to be women.
Rather than admit, that might be a real problem. The transactivist on this site that I was speaking with said that all that kind of funding should be cut instead!!!
But you seem determined to make this a partisan issue and I would just say that the transactivists and the bigots on the right are equally extreme people and no one should be listening to them. It ought to be the people who are not bigoted and who are willing to reason intellectually having the discussions and we should not let them determine the terms of those discussions.
And there is a much higher level of discussion happening in the UK, although there are still violence and anger and threats made. But more of that comes from the left over there than the right. And that is because there is not a right wing evangelical psychotic Christian movement in the UK like there is here in the states.
And I'm saying that as a ultra devout Christian myself.