Look back to the original Forstater case - WORIADS. Religions such as Christianity and Judaism are both WORIADS. In a democratic society, they are worthy of respect.
Privacy, safety and vulnerability of women are beliefs. That the statistics show women need safety is a fact, but that women deserve safety is a belief.
And I repeat my question. If we can’t expect our belief based requests to be accommodated, how are we going to protect our privacy, our safety, if you’ve already given away the principle that we can’t even expect belief based requests to be taken into consideration?
How do you argue that GCs have the right to not be harassed in hospital and get same sexed care - when you’ve already argued that a Haredi woman should effectively be told her beliefs are far less important than the consultant’s right to not fill the forms in by 1 pm? Or the ward sister’s right to be annoyed at you for not wanting to be discharged at a time when your relatives can’t drive, your husband can’t prepare any extra food and you’ll have to ask the taxi driver to carry the baby into the house?
Do we have a right to say our radiographer should be female when the one on duty is a TIM? We have a clinical need to be scanned…
If we don’t expect a hospital to show respect for a long established religion, how do we expect them to show respect for GC? The entire Fife case - total lack of respect for the beliefs of a working class nurse that she should have a single sex space to change in.
Clinical needs are more important? OK, Dr Upton’s clinical need, to protect his mental health, was to change in the nurse’s changing room.
Case closed. Nothing to see here, clinical needs are more important and we shouldn’t expect our beliefs to be accommodated.