I find the comment about being challenged in women’s toilets because she’s not feminine enough distressingly ironic. If this really is happening, then I wish she’d ask herself what’s changed in the last 5 years to drive it.
The answer’s simple: the campaign she supports to redefine woman as an alignment with so-called “feminine” feelings & “feminine” presentation in place of biological sex; her contribution to the dissolution of the social contract that permitted women to assume everyone in their spaces was female, thereby forcing on many a deep insecurity about “feminine” males in their spaces, & a reluctant but necessary alertness to this.
To impose the substitution of sex with gender as the passport to women’s spaces without women’s consent, and then to condemn fearful females for reluctantly applying these very standards - so-called femininity - to safeguard themselves & uphold their rights…? Well, it’s just infuriating.
She’s effectively describing the damage she herself has wrought on gender non-conforming women - & also on those transwomen her ilk are so keen to tell us have been using our roaches for years - by forcing to them to raise their guard.
If it happens. Which I do find hard to imagine.
And if it does, it may of course also be the product of genuine bigotry against eg. butch lesbians, which is itself indefensible.
But think, Mhairi, please just think about what you’re saying!