To find it heartening that despite so many famous people being anti JKR, their are still so many who are prepared to work on HP?

Yes, opinions differ that's why ultimately consensus expertise matters particularly on complex issues whether medical, ethical, judicial or psychological.

Unfortunately, everyone these days thinks they’re an 'expert'…

Why is it always about toilets... not open plan changing rooms, or domestic violence shelters, or asking for your rape counsellor to be the same sex as you?

Toilets a merely a gateway drug.

I’m always thoroughly heartened when I visit King’s Cross station and see the massive queues outside the Harry Potter shop.

The Christmas tree is Diagon Alley themed this year, with a shop on each face of the plinth thingy it’s on.

There were young people taking pics last week, saying “Make sure you get one of each side!”

Warmed my terfy cockles, it did.

who do trans women have risks from in the male toilets?

I’m sure plenty of famous people are pro JKR anyway, they’re just too scared to say it out loud.

By this logic toilets don't need to be separated but clearly they do for safety reasons that applies to both trans women & women. And given there's no evidence statistically of trans women being a safety risk to women then sharing toilets only makes sense.

Yes, I know what you mean. I find misogyny and all the attempts to take away the rights of women - the oppressed sex - in favour of men - the oppressor sex - so disgustingly abhorrent and morally bankrupt, that I find it difficult to feel the same about people once I know they’re full on TRAs.

However, I try to remember that some to them do so out of ignorance, thinking they’re being ‘kind’, and don’t fully understand the impact on women, or the terrible harms being done to confused young people. Most people don’t seem to know much, if anything, about the lifelong medical harms like infertility being visited on vulnerable young people in the name of profit.

There are also those who are too craven and cowardly to do anything other than jump on the bandwagon, as they see this as advantageous to them. Those I have less sympathy for.

Yes, I don’t quite get how if the “cubicles in toilets allow” for the privacy, why not just use the toilets for your sex? @godtierKaren has clearly stated trans people can get the privacy they want there?

Denying psychological, behavioural & cultural commonalities is as silly as denying biological realities so I'm not interested in being drawn into that.

Of course you're not.

Getting your dick out in female only spaces is not a human right.

And there are cubicles in men’s toilets so males with a trans identity will have all the privacy and dignity they want won’t they? I mean, if women’s safety, dignity abd privacy can be cured by cubicles, so can mens. You e just confirmed there is no need for males with a trans identity to use female spaces as the answer is just cubicles in the men’s. Sorted.

Nobody has been denied the right to use basic facilities, they're just being told to use the appropriate ones.
Self id isn't the same as self determination, and if an adult wants to chop off their bits that's up to them. They don't get to chop off the bits of children, and as it's their choice I don't see why they shouldn't pay for it themselves, why should the rest of us foot the bill.

Oooh didn’t a poster lecture us on this…. It’s crying a lot and being kind and liking shiny, soft things as I recall. So it was decided 90% of the women on this board weren’t actually women. I think that poster left in shame as he hasn’t been back since.

I know right! It’s why I struggle to maintain relationships with those who believe women don’t deserve the basic human rights of privacy, dignity and safety, and are so misogynistic they believe a male can be a woman. The fact that some people believe denying males access to female spaces is a breach of human rights is laughable and I do worry about the sanity of those that think that.

And no one treats them as women, they treat them as special men.

There are zero commonalities between women as a sex and these men that don’t also exist between women and other men. There is no “woman personality” that these men have. HTH.

Of course you aren’t 😂

Denying psychological, behavioural & cultural commonalities is as silly as denying biological realities so I'm not interested in being drawn into that.

What are the commonalities? Why should I believe men who “identify as women” are women?

Yes, but biological sex being a relevant distinction in some circumstances doesn't mean its always relevant or that other commonalities don't exist between trans men/women & men & women.

Funny how your argument doesn’t stand on its own merits so you have to appropriate someone else’s oppression, isn’t it, “godtierKaren”?

You wouldn’t say the same though, because knowing what biological sex is and that in many circumstances it’s important isn’t remotely the same as racism.

No they don’t. Most women don’t want to share toilets with men. Men are not being discriminated against in being expected to respect women.

You could say the same about racists who rationalise their racism as preventing 'harms' from cultural differences. But when you get down to it, it's usually garden variety ignorance from lack of exposure.

What are the rights that are being violated here?

Freedom to use necessary basic facilities. Self determination & bodily autonomy.

"And while about it do you think that biological women are entitled to privacy and dignity? Are these human rights worth standing up for?"

Cubicles in toilets already allow for that.