Sorry if this has been posted before, I only saw it myself today
How erasing sex distinctions from law kills privacy and consent
by Paul Dirks
Consent is a crucial component of privacy that empowers individuals and affirms human dignity. It is consent that permits us to receive and express intimacy. It is consent that regulates our respect for the privacy of others. It is consent that bestows on individuals, rather than society, the power to draw the precise boundaries around their own privacy. —Steven Wilborn
While a significant majority of the public approve generally of protections for transgender individuals, applying these preferences to shared segregated spaces typically marked “women” and “men” have met with significantly less public approval....
So what is the case law on bodily privacy? In Stanley v. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1987), four female members of the Alberta R.C.M.P. alleged sex discrimination due to a lack of work at lock-ups where the policy was that prisoners “must be guarded by persons of the same sex.” After a lengthy tribunal involving many expert witness, the tribunal agreed that the sex-differential was an important aspect of prisoners’ privacy rights: “If the general interest in personal privacy is an important one to us, the specific interest in not being viewed while in states of undress and using the toilet by strangers of the opposite sex must be said to be of particular importance.
...whatever value self-identification may have in other matters relating to gender rights, it has none relative to bodily privacy rights. Bodily privacy is related de facto to the body.
...Secondly, privacy concerns take into account and legitimize the effects of privacy loss. R. v. Golden states that privacy loss can be “humiliating,” “degrading,” “demeaning,” “upsetting,” devastating,” or even be experienced as “visual rape.” Gender policy proponents are happy to claim these effects on behalf of transwomen should they have to use a male space. But if a female should claim these effects if bio-male transwomen were in their space, the effects are seen as illegitimate.”
thefederalist.com/2017/07/11/erasing-sex-distinctions-law-kills-privacy-consent/