regressive and (actually transphobic) supporters of the "woman's place" position

It is nonsense but when "a women places" retweets paul embrey - he of the "its hypocritical to care about families in the context of border separations but support the repeal of clause 8 in ireland" (paraphrase) -fame it does not look good

I'm not aware of Paul Embrey's views on every subject but neither him or O' Neil are on the Right. Embrey is a Labour trade unionist as are founding members of WPUK so if they are retweeting him that will be the connection.

I understand where you are coming from and certainly don't think that anything that comes from the US fundie right wing is helpful, in fact I'm not sure that anything US based is that helpful in debate about UK politics because our political systems and culture are quite different.

I don't really subscribe to the idea that someone has to hold 100% of the same political opinions as me for their comment to be deemed worthy. I feel that sort of thing is half of why we are in a bit of a mess currently in all sorts of areas as it leads to political tribalism.

It is important to read things carefully before deciding if you endorse the POV, I agree with that much.

There was a Spectator article last week by Barry Humphries that discussed transgenderism and whilst I agreed with and shared Kirkup's piece from the same edition I didn't with Humphries because I felt it was a bit disparaging towards TG people even though he was essentially saying what many here have pointed out.

Wanderabout - I think it was from December. She owns it. She always does.

Ooh I missed Bindel!

Thankfully she put everyone back on bloody track!

The doctor who appeared on This Morning with MB did not come across well and religion was used as the main argument for his 'belief' so yes, there needs to be care in presenting this as fact based.

The toilet issue can be used to trivialise bigger matters (even Julie Bindel's interview with Richard Madely was diverted onto toilets thanks to Richard's 'expert' analysis).

Your first paragraph is more subtle than your title suggests! (And I agree with it.)

I definitely agree with your second paragraph. You only need to see how keen trans allies are to move the conversation onto "bathroom bans". Any opponent is likely to be called a bathroom obsessive and being seen to argue over this issue can work as a massive turn-off to passers-by.

I have seen suggestions on Twitter that womens groups are funded by far right religious groups which is just nonsense as we all know.

However I agree that the toilets issue is the lesser problem. Actually TW should be fine in male or female toilets, I don't think that toilets in the UK are particularly dangerous places at the moment. This is because they are single sex and males do not as a general principal have access to female toilets. The issue with toilets is that we don't get so used to seeing males in female toilets that they are no longer safe for anyone.

Prisons, hospital wards, AWS and sports for me is where the issue can be most clearly seen. And of course it is easy enough to monitor whether someone is male or female here.