Protect female-only spaces

[HelenaTranscart]

The Scottish government goes to court in September to challenge Westminster's decision to block the gender reform bill (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66033943?at_medium=RSS).

If this bill passes, any male who self-identifies as a woman (without the need for hormones, surgery or a doctor's certificate) will be able to access female-only spaces. This includes toilets, changing rooms, female-only hospital wards, rape crisis centres, miscarriage support groups, women's prisons, etc.

I believe this will endanger the safety of all biological women and girls. Female-only spaces exist for good reason and, sadly, hiding under the broad 'trans' umbrella are men who would do us harm.

In Scotland, we've recently had the Isla Bryson case (convicted transgender double-rapist Adam Graham) and scores of sexual assaults by "transwomen" (i.e. men) including the abduction and assault of a primary school girl by Andrew Miller (posing as Amy George). As the mother of a teenage girl, I am deeply concerned about what will happen if this bill becomes law ... and it will, unless we act now to stop it.

This has nothing to do with genuine gender dysphoria or teenagers confused about their sexuality. Trans Rights Activism is an insidious, militant cult backed by powerful, well-funded lobby groups like Stonewall, and big pharma who make $millions transitioning children and adults with drugs and surgery causing sterility and untold suffering. The UK can legislate to protect vulnerable trans people without throwing the rights of women and girls under the bus.

Regardless of where you live in the UK, we have to act. Please:

• WRITE to your MP to tell them you oppose gender self-identification and to continue to protect biological sex under the Equalities Act. And, if you're in Scotland, contact your MSP. Humza 'Useless' and his SNP wokerati need to understand they've picked the wrong issue to go head-to-head with Westminster on. See: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP 
• SHARE this information with your friends and family to spread awareness about what's going on.
• SUPPORT groups such as https://forwomen.scot/ and https://www.standingforwomen.com/
• READ up on the issues if you want to know more (see https://www.standingforwomen.com/ or see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trans-When-Ideology-Meets-Reality-ebook/dp/B08XQZYT5R/)

And please talk to your menfolk. If they want to protect the women they care about, we need the REAL men in trousers to protect us from the men in dresses.

Thank you,

Helena Transcart

Also needs to be mentioned to MPs, if women lose single sex provision, then a large number of women will lose access to any public spaces in order to provide men with more freedom of self expression.

Those will include disabled women, Autistic women, women of minority faiths and cultures, women who have experienced assault, rape, trauma, CSA, DV/DA.

Those women are also protected in law. This would fix that women are subordinate and lesser beings in law, that they can lose rights and equality to serve male interests. It fixes male supremacism in law, under the waffly figleaf lie of being 'inclusive'.

Ask how inclusion can be exclusionary. Ask why the first duty of women's spaces is not to be inclusive of and accessible to all women, not just primarily male self identified ones.

Ask how it will or can be measured as to how many women are pushed out of public spaces and public access in a way not seen since Victorian England, to provide more freedom of choice to men, and what groups suffer most. Clue: it won't be privileged, educated, affluent, unassaulted able bodied ones. Do MPs not have a duty to protect the interests of those women too?

There are of course those of us who just plain won't go into a space to undress where any male who feels like it can insist on being present to use the space and women in it as tools to meet their needs without regard for consent. You may want to ask if you MP feels that women should be required in law to provide their bodies to men for validation and other agendas as the price of entry to public spaces.

And if they are not prepared to face up to these realities in plain English you might ask them why they lack the courage of their convictions.

And if you get any misogynist bullshit about 'reframing their trauma' and 'choosing to self exclude', ask why the MP is not requiring the same effort and resilience of men who do not want to use men's spaces.

The right to single sex spaces is allowed for in the Equality Act which is a UK wide act which any Scottish law has to fit in with.

The problem is that Equality Act only allows for single sex spaces where a case is made that they are essential.

That is why there was a Petition to make clear that in the EA sex means biological.

Any organisation in the UK can, if it chooses, make a case of providing single sex services, changing rooms, toilets. The problem is most institutions cant be bothered, or dont respect women enough to do it.

The court case isn't about whether trans women whether self identifying or not can access women's spaces, but about how the GRR is not compatible with the GRA as it would mean within the UK you would have differeent types of gender recognition.