Never understood the “it only affects 0.1%” (or whatever % someone has pulled out of there arse) when women are 51% of the population. It actually affects 100% of the population as it will eliminate same sex spaces for men and whilst there isn’t the same danger of sexual violence from women towards men etc. men and boys still value male only space. Men famously and effectively removed women from the mens pond at Hampstead, whereas the old women’s pond is now mixed (affecting 100% of the women who use it, or used to use it).
Trans women are not predators any more than gay men are.
Even If that were true, gay men aren’t allowed access to women’s only spaces any more than other men so what’s the point? Gay men don’t enter women’s sporting completions on the basis of their sexuality. Gay men would have to claim to be women in order to do that, just like the straight and bisexual blokes have to. Gay men are a particular group within the category of “men” - they aren’t women.
Labour are “supposed” to look after the most vulnerable. It’s an expectation that people have of them that they don’t have of conservative governments. The people most negatively affected by the erosion of women’s rights are women who lack power in other areas - poor women, uneducated women, incarcerated women, homeless womes, immigrant women, disabled women, elderly women. Posh blokes handwringing about “dignity” and “inclusivity” for men whilst being perfectly happy for a female 19yo drug addicted, homeless, care leaver to share a cell with a convicted male rapist can do one. We all know who they intend to have “dignity” and it isn’t anyone female. Why else would they keep screeching “but why don’t you care about a totally different issue, you toxic harpies”? This myth that women’s prisons becoming mixed sex is only an issue for middle aged, middle class white women is, frankly, ridiculous. Poor, under-educated and minority ethnic women are hugely over represented in prison. But if you give a shit about it then it’s all “omg why don’t you even care about poverty and education and racism???” I’m going to be moaned at by people saying prisons are a niche issue and I should care about something else (but not healthcare, social care, sports, public spaces, crisis facilities, support groups, women only shortlists and prizes, gyms, leisure facilities, changing facilities, schools of toilets)
The current mess has been created by the conservative government - but they at least now, in 2024, are answering the question they have been asked “sex is biological” and “adult human female”. Kier can’t answer the question, which says more about him than answering it could ever do. He came across as a massive misogynist wanker on the leaders question time. No wonder women who could have held their noses and voted labour before it are considering simply vomiting on their ballot papers now.