The United Nations Bangkok Proticils in the treatment of prisoners states that the gold standard in care for female prisoners is to not even have male guards. Gold standard also is to ensure that female and male prisoners are to be housed in completely separate buildings.
The UN clearly states that housing male and female prisoners together is a violation of female human rights.
Similarly, when establishing refugee camps, the UN, after NOT doing so and having then to cope with what they called “rape camps”, now, as the very first order of business, establishes clearly separate, sex-segregated toilet and shower facilities.
In England, women marched in the streets for the first female-only toilets, because until then the only public toilets were unisex, and women were assaulted in them. When the first women-only toilet was built, men burned it down that night.
It is not new for men to agitate against women-only ANYTHING. It is only new that now they are doing so by claiming g they themselves are also women.
Meanwhile, all of the reasons that the UN took into account in developing the Bangkok Protocols and in changing how they provide sanitation services in refugee camps still exist for women all over the world, including the U.K.
The willful blindness to the extent and harms of male violence against women and girls, including “lesser” acts of harassment, exposure, and voyeurism, some of which are only precursors to greater violence for some males, is misogyny.
The insistence on privileging the feelings of males over the safety of women and girls is misogyny.
The insistence of privileging subjectivity over material reality constitutes reactionary politics and is antithetical to left-wing socialism.