To think we should all boycott John Lewis until they respect their female employees

Ah yes, the predictable ad hominem attacks on other women who have different opinions than you do. Luckily in this country and in this century we’re able to hold and express different views. Why does it need to get so personal?

Unfortunately John Lewis is morphing away from it's winning formula.
It will go the way of other large dept stores.
I don't agree with them forcing females to share like this esp after the case in Scotland.

Indeed.

And also, can we stop with this ridiculous assertion that trans woman in some way necessarily means sexual predator. It’s offensive.

Why is the bar set at being attacked?

I don’t want to be in certain spaces in the presence of a penised male. The end. I don’t need a reason why. No matter what their intentions are. My brother and lovely male friends would never hurt anyone (as far as I know). Would I want them to be in any spaces for women if they woke up tomorrow with different gender feels despite being sure their intentions were not nefarious in any way? No. Because their presence may be problematic to some women, for a myriad of reasons.

Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?

Exactly how much easier do you claim it is? It's not as if anywhere places guards at the doors of women's toilets. Men literally just need to open the doors and walk in.

Indeed.

And also, can we stop with this ridiculous assertion that trans woman in some way necessarily means sexual predator. It’s offensive.

Are blokes of all shapes and sizes allowed in those breastfeeding facilities?

I have no issue with trans women using female facilities considering we have cubicles, they are private. Nothing to do with the voting being a basic right for everyone, give over

Exactly how much easier do you claim it is? It's not as if anywhere places guards at the doors of women's toilets. Men literally just need to open the doors and walk in.

Not caring is not the same as thinking it won’t happen in my workspace. It can happen where I work and that’s fine. I am happy to share space with trans women as I do not consider them to be “men pretending to be women”.

You don’t want to a space with “penised males”, well what about if they’ve had surgery? Is that ok? Somehow I doubt it.

And you don’t want to be in the presence of any men in spaces for women because “their presence may be problematic to some women”. So this is solely an altruistic endeavour to help “some” (undefined) women.

It’s difficult to grasp because I cannot get my head around the uproar it causes when there is genuine harm being done to women. This is a bogey monster under the bed that receives outsized attention on here. I don’t understand it, you all seem to work each other up into a state of apoplexy.

It’s completely pointless posting in these threads full of pitchforks. However I do wonder if any of you have ever actually met or interacted with a person suffering from gender dysphoria. There’s so much ignorance and hatred on display.

Exactly how much easier do you claim it is? It's not as if anywhere places guards at the doors of women's toilets. Men literally just need to open the doors and walk in.

Imagine if the suffragettes had said this about the vote! It's to not be bothered when other women fight for all those rights for you and you just reap the benefits, isn't it?

You are aware that 99.9% of men do not need to go through the pretence of lying about their gender identity in order to attack women? They just do it. Honestly you would think that hoards of women were being attacked on a daily basis by men falsely identifying as women. A far, far bigger issue is violence perpetuated by men identifying as men. Why is there not the same uproar there?

Oh here we go, the they'll do it anyway trope. Why bother with any form of safeguarding or security if people will do it anyway? Shall we do away with all checks and balances for people working with children? Have a little think about how much easier allowing men who claim to women into women's spaces makes it for those who wish to enter for nefarious purposes and then have a little think about why single sex spaces were put in place.

It literally doesn’t bother me.

I work for JL and trust me, this is not the issue you think it is. We have male janitors in the changing rooms and no one cares. Stop assuming what colleagues are thinking with no knowledge.