Encouraging development.
And whatever the next step needed, regarding loopholes, the Code of Practice, etc, this evening is a fascinating watch of the responses to this from many trans activists.
As Akua Reindorf says, the guidance is to help any organisation that provides services like toilets, changing rooms, refuges or hospital wards to understand the law and balance everybody’s rights
....This could be for reasons of privacy, decency, to prevent trauma or to ensure health and safety.
The sheer rage this evening of so many males from being told 'no' for the reasons above. I've yet to see any of them pay any nod to the needs that females may have, as listed above.
Even in some 40-plus tweet threads, not one nod to the needs of a specific group of people that aren't them.
Shouts of 'Nazi', 'authoritarian' and even a ""feelings of dignity & safety" = bigotry in this context."
No empathy, no compassion, no thought for women. (No surprise, but useful to see it writ large this evening).
Privacy, dignity, safety, trauma prevention and health and safety.
Means nothing to some men, if they aren't given what they want, regardless of others' needs.
Hopefully even more people who were sitting on the fence, hoping to equivocate a little longer, will see the aggressive response to this guidance, and realise what's really going on.