Do try to use your head.
Transgendered women (male to female) who have completed the process are women. Physically women. No question. The problem here is with those men who are physically male...with all the equipment...who claim to be 'a woman in a man's body."
They may be...but as long as they still have the equipment to rape and abuse, they need to prove that their gender is female.
So people who are biologically female can't rape or abuse? Also, please explain precisely what method shelters should employ to determine whether or not someone is "physically male".
That's just plain common sense.
No, it's bigotry. You've already demonstrated that with your baseless claim that trans people are more likely to be predators than genuine seekers of shelter.
.....and it is common sense that is used in every woman's shelter I know about.
As far as medical information being private...get a grip. If it were all THAT private I could get life insurance, my husband, who was an epileptic, could have kept his driver's license, and my daughter in law could drive at night.
False comparisons. You're talking about things that necessarily require medical checks for licensing purposes and allowances, but nobody is required to
voluntary disclose their medical records, particularly in situations where they are seeking shelter from abuse.
There are times and situations where medical information is important...and pertinent. If a fully functional male comes to a shelter and claims that he is really a 'woman in a man's body,' then he has a choice, IMO; provide medical proof, or go somewhere else.
Then you're putting unnecessary barriers in front of those seeking shelter from abuse, because for some reason you believe trans people are less deserving of the same protections as cis people, and you advocate an unworkable system that is designed to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Let's break this down:
You have yet to provide a single shred of evidence that predators would abuse shelters by claiming to be trans, or that this is significant enough of a problem to justify invading the privacy of trans people seeking shelter and/or diminishing their human rights. You haven't presented a workable system, and you cannot even meaningfully come up with a way to determine trans from cis women, and preventing trans women from accessing shelters will achieve nothing but putting more women in harms way.
You're wrong on every level. The problem you believe exists is imaginary, and you solution you imagine to the problem would never work.
