I wonder if the Guardian and those using these incidents as gotchas realise the misogyny behind their framing of this situation.
That a man abused a woman because he thought she was a man is the man’s issue. It is wrong to blame his actions on women who want single sex spaces.
And the reality is as so many have said prior to this, if men never claimed access to female single sex spaces, women and girls would also not be in the situation where they are hyper vigilant about who is in their spaces.
When you strip away all the emotional shielding, male people demanded access to spaces and services that that were never entitled to, yet groups are blaming the female people who reject those male people being there rather than the male people causing distress and hypervigilence in female people. At a time when male violence and abuse of women and girls is at significant levels.
You really couldn’t make up how misogynistic that framing by the guardian is, yet that media outlet believes it is righteous!! Well done BeeS for bringing to light the misogyny for us all to see.