Aren’t the front pages and headlines glorious!

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I know there is a fair amount of bandwagon jumping, but it feels like the newspapers have finally read the room and realised that the SC ruling is welcomed by FAR more people than it disappoints. And so the front pages have smiling faces and headlines that would never have been published before.

Even, for example, the Metro which has had a pretty shocking record before has a pretty clear headline and a picture of smiling women.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd3jg60q4no

I think many trans women are not going to be happy with a third space though are they? I actually find all this quite scary for women and girls. I’m worried that this ruling will actually just stoke the fire on the issue.

Exactly.

The minority is covered in the Equality Act. Time for campaigners to start working on trans sports events and leagues, prison provision for trans offenders, shelters for trans DV victims, etc - you know, just as women had to at the beginning of women’s rights.

I’m afraid the view that sex is not binary and immutable really isn’t worthy of respect. It’s flat earth stuff.

There is no obligation to be respectful of nonsense views

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Is that all you have?

But I'll bite (because I'm bored). Which are the correct and acceptable media outlets?

I agree!

Quite!

Joss Prior filmed himself in a women's toilet yesterday, just to show us......

Is there currently a legal ruling that companies and organisations must provide single sex toilets, I'm not sure? Is it just that this has been standard practice, rather than a legal ruling?

Baroness Faulkner, today in the Irvine Times:

On other issues such as toilets, changing rooms and sports, Baroness Falkner echoed the Government in saying the ruling had brought “clarity” to providers on their duties under equality law around single-sex spaces. Asked if it was now simple that trans women cannot take part in women’s sport, she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Yes, it is.” On changing rooms and toilets, Baroness Falkner said: “Single-sex services like changing rooms must be based on biological sex.” She said there is no law against organisations providing a third space such as unisex toilets and suggested trans rights organisations “should be using their powers of advocacy to ask for those third spaces”.

British transport police have shifted today to an 'interim policy' that searches are done by an officer of the same sex only.

I think roughly, in schools and workplaces yes, they must (cf the Sandy Peggie case), otherwise, no, they can provide just unisex facilities?

I don't know if there is, but I think a case could be made for discrimination if they don't.

Unisex toilets disproportionately disadvantage women.

Plus they're deeply unpopular.

I really think this Pandora's box is going to get blown wide open.

You're going to see transwomen melting down on the telly because they don't want a third space.

And people will see all the nasty stuff come out

I heard a trans woman on the BBC saying she can't pee in a bottle so needs to be in a women's ward in hospital...

I hope this means the WI will rethink its fawning on the issue, so I can rejoin after resigning six years ago.

The best part is it’s not our remit. Women are out.

We have clarity, good luck to the other sex class.

This judgment was on the meaning of sex and the words woman/man in the Equality Act. The minority you refer to all have a sex into which they were born, even if they wish they had been born into the other. They are protected as trans-identifying people under the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. Surely the vast majority of the population are entitled to their own protected characteristic of sex or do trans-identifying people expect to have more rights than anyone else?

Of all this decision has made clear, just how absolutely entrenched and enabled this nonsense has become is what stands out the most clearly of all.

It is shocking. Where are the apologies?

In workplaces it’s the law. In schools it’s the law. Not EA, different laws. Unless they provide single cubicles with washing facilities.

Thank you women of Scotland.

Here in Wales the Senedd are discombobulated and squeaked out a non statement last night.

Yes, it's rather satisfying saying, sorry mate, not my circus...

Has Starmer said owt?

squeaked out

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At Manchester Uni the only toilets that are single-sex are the Men’s – your choices are unisex or men’s. 🙈

It’s incredible. FWS, Sex Matters and the judges did what politicians refused to do. Although some did try.

That's clearly discriminatory!

Universities are workplaces but I am dubious about whether we will see them update their transgender policies for students.

I also still think it'll be a brave woman who tests the law in these workspaces.

I don't think anything will change at my institution, as I don't think they're likely to update the policy or else point out that they have done so.