Girls and women (human females) should have the right to single sex intimate spaces in order to protect their safety, privacy and dignity.
This is both a safeguarding and child protection concern.
So too should it be when adult males seek to affirm their gender identity by influencing policies in schools, prisons, changing rooms, hospital wards which make these spaces mixed sex.
The account from Transgender Trend (linked previously) of how a school was lobbied to change its policies is very relevent to this thread. The origibal article shows how the online social media pressure was used so effectively:
March 2018
"The image above shows a presentation from a local Southend trans support group called Transpire, founded by a 54 year-old transsexual male called Gina Denham who teaches children that we all have a ‘gender identity’ which exists in the womb and is independent of both our socialisation and our biological sex. It is this ‘gender identity’ which makes us a boy or a girl and actually being male or female is irrelevant.
Transpire recently forced a school to change its policies in service of this ideology. Under the guise of ‘inclusion’ and ‘integration’ Gina Denham led an aggressive campaign to force a school in Rochford to remove sex-based rights and protections for its female students.
The trans pupil in question has been known by the Transpire group for two years so has presumably been thoroughly conditioned into the belief that he is literally female. As with Lily Madigan at his school in Kent, this one pupil has been afforded the power to change policy affecting all other pupils at the school with the help of a powerful transgender lobby.
The Transpire campaign began on Facebook:
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The campaign continued on Twitter where King Edmund School Head Jonathan Osborn was bombarded with tweets of complaint, using the hashtag #BeInclusiveNotAbusive. A lot of the subsequent tweets have been deleted from Transpire’s Twitter account so we have had to use sceencaps from archived tweets:
The pressure was increased by letting a few other people know about the ‘discrimination’ going on at King Edmund school, including the local BBC station, Stonewall, the DfE, Ofsted, Pink News and the local District Council:
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Adding LGBT Pride groups and the Prime Minister:
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And a few more, including Mermaids and other well-known activists:
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A few more are recruited, including the local newspaper, County Council and the leader of the Labour Party:
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Inviting a pile-on from some more trans activist groups:
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Another tweet to the Head, including a ticking-off about ‘gendered titles’:
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And another, including Essex County Council:
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And some pressure on the Social Faculty leader:
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More pressure, including the school’s Teaching and Learning Community:
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And more, including the School Business Manager:
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The Mayor of London is informed:
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And finally, “everyone wins!”
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The whole campaign, from start to finish, took 6 days. No time to conduct a proper impact assessment on pupils protected under the protected characteristic ‘sex’ as the school is legally obliged to do before changing policy. How is this not in breach of Equality law? The pupil involved is legally male, not female, and single-sex provisions are lawful under the Equality Act, for reasons of privacy. The example of school facilities used in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Technical Guidance (3.20) does not state that a pupil protected under ‘gender reassignment’ as transsexual should be allowed to use the facilities of the opposite sex:
The way in which school facilities are provided can lead to discrimination. Example: A school fails to provide appropriate changing facilities for a transsexual pupil and insists that the pupil uses the boys’ changing room even though she is now living as a girl. This could be indirect gender reassignment discrimination unless it can be objectively justified. A suitable alternative might be to allow the pupil to use private changing facilities, such as the staff changing room or another suitable space.
King Edmund School is praised for showing “flexibility and openness to change” whereas in fact they were coerced by a campaign designed to intimidate and shame them for their ‘abusive’ policy of ‘discrimination’ and ‘segregation’, clearly risking damage to the school’s reputation. One tweeter even likened it to ‘apartheid.’
Although the final tweet proclaims ‘Everyone wins!’ Denham freely admits in this BBC report that the victory is only for the transgender student and everyone else’s needs and rights are unimportant
"It’s about giving people the opportunity to use the toilet they are comfortable with, not what the school is comfortable with.”
So who is Gina Denham and what gives this individual so much power that a school changes its whole policy to cater to the demands of just one pupil?" (continues)