this tweet really is fascinating to me. cis women feel so worried for trans boys they will…. wait outside a bathroom. that two young teenagers are using. so worried for them that she would DO said creepy behavior so someone else doesn’t do it, but maliciously.

the kids were fine. they used the bathroom as intended and left. not only do i dislike the implication that two trans kids, kids often perceived as gnc, would be safer in a womens bathroom but also the way she felt so comfortable watching two kids in the bathroom in the name of protecting them. she’s right, it is lunatic behavior!

i would be terrified if knowing that out in public, i could do something as simple as use the bathroom, and some older woman i dont know would watch me in the name of safety. that does not make me feel safe and it worried me more because i am not 13. can you imagine being watched and having no idea, AND youre a fucking middle schooler? that isnt even like “looking out for local kids” its just creepy. jesus.

As @anomalousmancunt pointed out in the replies, this woman is being classically transandrophobic by both infantilizing and demonizing these kids she views as transmasc. They’re so misguided and in need of protection but also who knows what harm those delusional girls are going to do to the real men around them, apparently

Yeah that's weird phrasing. "What they may accuse a man of" so....you're not worried about them, you're victim-blaming them about something that hasn't even happened.

And if it was two cis boys going into a mens bathroom that would be completely innocuous, same as two cis girls going into the womens. So trans kids are uniquely in danger of....accusing adults of rape? Is that the fear? Or that an adult will tell them they're using the wrong bathroom and the kids will accuse the adult of transphobia?

And so she waited outside the mens bathroom, for what exactly? For what purpose? To protect adults from accusations? To bravely run in if a kid yelled? What?

And "giggling back out" just silly little girls doing dumb shit for the lulz but there will consequence for the lulz this isnt sexist this is a SOCIETAL ISSUE the TEENS are causing TROUBLE.

I mean. Objectively/not this particular context, I think discreetly keeping half an eye on kids in public who are goofing around in a way that could be dangerous and could require an adult if something goes wrong, is an OK thing to do. That might be what OP means about "looking out for local kids". I wouldn't intervene. We do have responsibilities to each other as a society as people in community. Possibly also if adults were doing particularly dumb shit, honestly.

But standing right outside a bathroom is not it. And she's pretending it's concern but it's obviously also some weird creep-disgust-fascination with trans kids - I don't necessarily mean sexually- it's almost like she's waiting for something bad to happen to them as much as she's ostensibly waiting to make sure they come out safe. She's worried what damage they might do. What those little freak kids might get up to.

Thats not communal concern for health and well-being, that's not looking out for ones neighbours. It's hating on teenagers in the name of status quo and normalcy. Its hate-condescension-transphobia and its creepy.

"There will be consequences" is ominous too. Is she considering violence against these kids? What's she imagining?

Cis women love fantasizing about trans boys experiencing sexual violence as a way to “prove” to us we’re actually girls. So as others pointed out, she’s both afraid FOR them and afraid OF them - but I’d add that she’s also secretly hopeful they experience this trauma, to detransition us.