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John Bowman's avatar

And also excludes others who might make the safe space, unsafe. It’s called Apartheid - and that’s not pretty, because it enables an arbitrary process of decision making about who must be excluded and in what grounds, because they might make my space unsafe. So if you are a horrible person who believes there are only two sexes, or if you are White and therefore innately and unconsciously micro-aggressive, you can be excluded. Not using a recreational facility is a choice, being able to use a safe space requires permission. The ultimate is the whole campus us declared a safe space except for an area where ‘unsafe’ people may use. And that has happened.

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Tonya's avatar

That is correct. The campus already had an "international center" which we were assured everyone was welcome to use, but which effectively excluded certain skin colors. It also already had an entire floor of the student center devoted to "gender" something or other, but I'm pretty sure I could not have gone in there to have a reasoned conversation about biological sex.

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