Why all this sadness and upset feelings for men who say they are women having to use male toilets? And this is not just about toilets. Where was all the sadness when a 6’5 ‘Katie’ Dolatowski sexually assaulted a 10 year old in the women’s toilets? Where was the sadness when convicted rapist ‘Karen’ White sexually assaulted incarcerated women in prison? Where was the sadness when a woman was raped on a hospital ward, but NHS bosses gaslighted her for a year saying ‘it couldn’t have happened as there were no men on the ward’, Where was the sadness and outrage when a woman was denied cancer treatment because she didn’t want a man who said he was a woman to examine her?
All of this happened because as a society, we put women’s needs, safety, dignity and privacy second to men’s feelings. If the ruling had gone the other way last week, women wouldn’t even be distinguishable in law as a separate sex class.
I’m upset that so many of the comments about feeling sorry for men who say they are women actually come from women. We really do need to wake up to the impact female socialisation and ‘be kind’ has had.