For the person that asked what had been included in emails, this is what I sent to Tim
to ocado
Dear Tim,
I am an existing customer and my flat mates and I share an account from which we get our weekly food shop delivered. We are all women and work plenty of irregular hours in the NHS. Your food delivery system has, up until now, been the perfect solution for speedy, accurate, home deliveries. However, I would very much like some clarification why the term "Woman=Adult Human Female " is such an offensive term, you supported it being removed from a billboard in Liverpool? I am a very proud Scouse WOMAN. I am an adult human female. I walk past that billboard every single day. I saw nothing offensive at all about a sign that displays the definition of WOMAN.
You may well claim that the group behind the sign is a radical hate group that are spreading poison and bile but a simple google of the website that was at the bottom of the billboard proves otherwise. It is simply a group of women that are trying to protect the rights of biological women (as protected by law in the UK) and prevent erasure of the term WOMAN. They are not against trans people but wish to keep single sex spaces as exactly that. Single sex for women. So women would be protected in prisons, and fully intact penis owning male prisoners that identify as women, are kept out. But that would never happen surely? It already has and women were raped while in prison by a male prisoner named Karen White, that was previously convicted of sex crimes against women AND children.....so they put him in a female prison with a mother and baby unit. But surely that is the end of women's rights being trampled on?
A little more googling says no, it is not. Trans people are fighting for unisex toilets. Where is the harm? I hear you ask. Well actually, you may never guess this but once again it puts biological women at a disadvantage. Sex crimes shoot through the roof in mixed sex facilities and guess who are the victims? it is WOMEN.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/sexual-assault-unisex-changing-rooms-sunday-times-women-risk-a8519086.html
Now, Imagine you are a woman. It's the period from hell, you are approaching the menopause and your genitals are spewing out what looks like chopped liver. You fight your way into a cubicle to change your moon cup. There is blood everywhere, you use your last three baby wipes and scraps of loo roll to tidy up as best you can. But you look like a murder victim, whoever said a period is an egg cup full of blood must have been male. You exit the cubicle to look for extra loo roll and find yourself face to face with 3 men. They look over your shoulder, they see the blood they sneer at you as they elbow each other in the ribs. You have to deal with this when you feel at your most vulnerable. You are forced to wash your hands at breakneck speed as they tell each other how gross it is, how can somebody bleed for 7 days and not die. You start crying, big fat sobs as you run out the room leaving your mess like a shameful stain. ( yes, that actually happened to me in a mixed sex toilet.) Now imagine that is your 13 year old daughter and tell me mixed sex toilets are ok.
Now in a women's toilet, the woman in the next stall would pass me paper, put a reassuring hand on my shoulder and tell me its ok, it happens to us all. In a very good women's toilet, there may even be san pro for free that makes us feel like we are normal people that don't have to pay tax on our tampons just for the very decadent luxury of menstruating! But there would be no MEN. But I don't expect any of this to matter to Ocado as I am going to assume the top tiers of the company are penis owners and not in fact a majority of women (unlike your customers though eh?)
So Ocado. Why is the term "Woman" so offensive to you that you could only continue to use PrimeSight after they had removed that billboard? Us continuing to use your service is dependent upon your reply. You either support the biological women that make up .....what? 80% of your customer base? or you don't.
I look forward to your reply.