#MissPollyFitDolly Which culture is this though? Most people wouldn't understand "woman" to include men, no matter how they identify.
That's a good point, and got me thinking. I guess I mean the changing-room culture! Less facetiously, I mean that large businesses are increasingly conscious of the "inclusion imperative" in a way that the average person on the street simply isn't. Which, of course, leads directly to the conflict here that concerns me: it's likely (clear?) that Primark are marketing their changing rooms as single sex in the full knowledge that they nonetheless wouldn't feel able/willing to deny a male self-identifying as a woman access to them, while also, presumably, being aware that, simultaneously, the majority of women off the street won't be aware of this as a possibility. And they're exploiting these two cultures & their different languages - their definitions of what woman means - to create a self-serving ambiguity.
The numbers mean it's unlikely to be an issue for the vast, vast majority... but I still think transparency is important, and their response to the string of questions - just the one question, really - on their Twitter feed shows an unethical (if, perhaps, understandable in another complex culture, the online one, of silencing and shaming) resistance to this...