I transitioned more than a decade before the Equality Act existed, when trans people did not have legal recognition through the GRA, but were still allowed to use single sex facilities that best suited us.
Who allowed you to use female facilities that best suited you? Were women asked? Did it ever occur to you that what best suited you did not suit women? Did you care?
Even back then at a time of all-consuming culture-wide hostility, the idea of being banned from female facilities was patently ridiculous.
Why was it ever patently ridiculous for women to have spaces that were reserved for their exclusive use free from any and all males however they identify?
Falkner hasn't just removed my legal recognition with this guidance and rolled us back to before the Equality Act or even the GRA - she has rolled us back to a point so utterly backward; so patently dehumanising and unworkable that it almost beggars belief.
No, Faulkner has set right the patent lies and distortion of the las 10 or so years whereby women have been threatened, assaulted, dehumanised and told they must accept males into their spaces despite this not and never being the Law.
I cried myself to sleep last night - haven't done that for decades - and the tears came right back when I woke up this morning.
Do you spare any thought for the women who have suffered harm as a direct result of the lies and distortion of the Law? Any tears for them? Any thoughts or concern for all the women who have had to self exclude from facilities designed and designated for them due to the presence of males?
Your crusade has allowed Falkner to destroy everything that anchored my world. If I go out in public and use the facilities I have used my entire adult life and much of my teens, I am breaking the law.
The only ones on a crusade were those on your side of the debate, all women wanted was their rights upheld as per the Law. You have always been breaking the Law, you were never given carte blanche to use those facilities you (general you) took it and then berated and threatened any women who objected.
If I use facilities I am now required to use in the absence of unisex facilities, I automatically breach my right to privacy afforded by the GRA by outing myself. It's unworkable, inhumane and astonishingly irresponsible, not to mention in breach of the ECHR.
You have been breaching the privacy and dignity of women for years, women have rights too you know. It is astonishingly irresponsible that women were ever put in this position in the first place.
Your crusade has destroyed our lives.
The crusade waged in your name has destroyed the lives of countless women.
There are a tiny, tiny number of women in this situation in this country and you have consigned us all to social death. Half my friends are frantically making plans to leave the country; the rest are still in a state of shock.
The emotional, manipulative hyperbole has had it's day.
The callousness; the unbelievable cruelty with which our worlds have been torn apart, and the triumphant crowing that has accompanied it, has genuinely shocked me. It is so brazen - so inhuman in its relish at our suffering that it is hard to see it as unintentional. This is a gloating victory lap.
Mmm, look in the mirror at what your side have been doing to women for the last decade or so.
Before you leap in with the accusations of overplaying the impact, please think how you would feel to be told that you must now exclusively use male-only facilities, would be sent to a male prison if you decide to stand your ground and break the law that's just detonated your social existence and right to privacy, and people are cheering and gloating and crying tears of joy, then laughing about how upset it is going to make you.
Try thinking how women felt at being forced to share spaces with men and being threatened if they objected, that is what has been happening. You never cared one iota about women's right to privacy and as for gloating as I said before look at your own side.