To push past in this situation

[SpringKitten]

If someone you knew at work was provoking you (the topic was insisting that you had to announce your pronouns and then tapping repeatedly the back of your chair to annoy you when you refused) and then later in the day that person decided to escalate the argument and also blocked the doorway to the toilets, refusing to move when you asked them to please let you past, would you be unreasonable to shove past them into the loo?

In a situation where there is no other female loo available and both of you are women.

What is the actual situation here? Are you saying that your female colleague won’t let you in the bogs until you confirm you aren’t a man?

I would probably claim to identify as a 3 toed sloth 🦥 in those conditions!

That's pretty outrageous. I'd escalate that

^^This

Who does she think she is?

What sex are you?

She said they're both women.

She shouldn't be blocking your personal space whatever the issue is.

If they were physically blocking my way, I'd probably get manager/security? I wouldn't want to be pushing anyone at work for fear of it coming back on me tbh.

I'm not touching this one with someone else's bargepole.

It wouldn't be unreasonable but I wouldn't do it because you could hurt her.

I would speak to management immediately, telling them you were prevented from using the loo.

I wouldn't shove or push anyone as it could be construed as assault.
This sounds deeply bizarre though. Do you share a line manager? I'd speak to them about the situation as it sounds intimidating and unprofessional.
There needs to be something done if things are escalating to people blocking doors and shoving eachother.

No matter how annoying and unacceptable your colleagues behaviour is you would be in the wrong to make physical contact with her in an aggressive way.

You need to escalate to management or HR.

What the hell is going on? Is the sex of you both female?

I wouldn't have pushed past, but I would have immediately found a manager to speak to and escalate a grievance.

I don't agree with you re not giving pronouns, but colleagues aren't allowed to hit your chair or block your path.

Because if I was at work and someone identified as female and wanted to use the bathrooms I would maybe complain but I wouldn't block their way. I wouldn't block anybody's way unless I thought they were a danger to someone.

Do you have a penis?

I don't agree with you re not giving pronouns

Why?

Because it gives credence to the ridiculous notion that you can change from being female to male (or vice versa).

Irrespective of which of the two if you doesn't think biological sex is a thing, the harassment should be reported.

I would get my phone out so bloody fast and film them blocking my way.

That was OP's position as far as I can tell.

Not answering questions though, for some reason...

My workplace is very clear on precisely why I will not ever be announcing my pronouns in my email signature. In this situation, I would involved my HoD and union rep, both of whom are likeably terrifying and on the side of right and biology.

Why? Are we compelled to give our pronouns in the workplace now? How does that work exactly?

I'd go to hr or line manager and say your are being threatened /bullied by a staff member then explain what they did

My workplace is very clear on precisely why I will not ever be announcing my pronouns in my email signature.

This doesn't make any sense. How is your workplace clear on why you don't do it?

She said they're both women. It's in the OP.