My cause is to protect women's spaces, and if that means supporting transwomen in getting their own safe spaces, I would.
I think the vast majority of the general population would have had no objection to this, and many women would have readily supported it.
Trans-rights organisations are awash with money. Had they spent it creating such spaces, I believe most people would have had no objections whatsoever.
They didn’t. They have spent millions of pounds and dollars insisting that men are women and must have women’s rights and access to all women’s spaces. They have set up lobbying groups that are funded by governments to tell the same government that funded them to give women’s rights to men.
They have deliberately set about undermining women’s rights under the radar as they recognize that what they are demanding will not be popular. The techniques they use are outlined in this document:
www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/dentons-campaigns-kids-switch-gender-without-parental-approval
Women have been objecting to this regime from as soon as they realised what was happening, but by the time most women became aware, we were already in the deeply compromised situation where there was already a law that allowed men to be legally recognised as women. The law was created in 2004, very quietly and was acknowledged at the time to have an impact on women’s rights. It was successfully argued that this negative impact would be minimal as there would only be around 5000 people using the GRA to change their legal sex. Since then, Stonewall et al have been busily widening the definition of who is trans and thus should enter opposite sex spaces.
As I said before, most of us woke up to find our rights already seriously compromised. Not only do men have legal access to women’s spaces already, but Stonewall have such astonishing reach that their policy of outlining the law as they want it (self-ID) rather than the law as it is has further compromised women’s rights as so many organisations believe that providing single-sex anything is illegal, when that is not the case.
Having found ourselves in this situation, many of us have had a great deal of difficulty coming to terms with where we already are right now. Women who object are in a deeply compromised position, with the power of police forces, the college of policing, the bench book used by the judiciary and many other powerful organisations ranged against us.
Many of us have concluded that third spaces are likely the best alternative and so we have stated that wherever possible, only to be told we are bigots and equivalent to white people arguing for racial segregation.
And now, @chickenyhead you are here shouting at us that we should be doing something. Believe me, many of us have tried. But we are ranged against Stonewall, against almost all political parties, and against the other bodies mentioned above who are all insisting that men are women and must have women’s rights and that there can be no debate.
If you want separate space, then start a campaign. Maybe it’s as simple as you think and those of us who’ve been here for years haven’t tried hard enough. You mentioned a petition from 2018. Where were you then? Did you sign it? This was still much more obscure in 2018 and most petitions have a set time before they are rendered inactive.
So go ahead. Make those organisations listen. Stop the thundering juggernaut with your helpful suggestion. Or maybe you can stay and listen a while before you judge the weary women who have endured years of name-calling and threats for not being polite enough for your liking.