Fwiw, this is the email from me he was responding to
As we seem to be on first initial terms. A less charitable person than I would think my email was put through some rather stupid AI (that mistook an initial for a first name) and possibly never crossed your desk. This might also explain why it was thought a Hansard link to a debate about Support for Trans People was suitable to include. Fortunately, I try not to be so cynical.
Regarding Charlie, I can sympathise with her. I've thought for a while of joining a gym. Unfortunately, all the gyms near my house are trans inclusive, which means they let men self-ID into the women's facilities. I don't wish to get changed and shower with male strangers. My daughters did not use the gyms at their Universities for the same reason. I'd likely be fine with sharing facilities with Charlie once it had been established she was female. She's a woman, beard or not. Unlike birth certificates that can't be changed.
Something for you and your fellow men to consider regarding supporting transwomen (who are biological men). What can you, as men, do to support them? Perhaps you can speak up, use your position, to encourage them to continue to use the facilities designed for men, even gender non-conforming ones. Try to include your trans-identifying siblings rather than try to push them into the women's facilities. Perhaps you could, as a Lib. Dem. MP, try to influence this as a policy in your party? I know Ed Davey claims to believe women can have a penis. I hear this and I think if he can lie about something so demonstrably stupid and false why should I trust anything he says? What does that say about the people who support him? Why should I vote for them?
An alternative would be for third spaces (actually fourth as disabled facilities should be for disabled people and their carers).
A side, but important issue, is the proliferation of fully enclosed toilet cubicles. I understand why shops and schools have introduced them. As organisations, because of misinformation of the Equality Act (EA) spread by lobby groups, have made their toilets mixed sex they've had to prioritise privacy. Allowing males into intimate spaces with females will let a minority of the former indulge proclivities to further infringe the dignity and privacy of the latter. This means gaps that used to be standard in toilet cubicles and changing rooms are often designed out. This has catastrophic effects on safety. I've heard fully enclosed cubicles described as 'rape rooms', of drugs being taken in these rooms, of people collapsing and not being found for hours, long after their lives may have been saved. In one case a young man was not found for six days.
I'm interested in what you see as the way forward? Is it the one that is currently victimising hardworking nurses in Fife and Darlington? The one that has been soundly rejected by the Supreme Court, who made no new law? Or do you think it's acceptable that organisations, like the BBC, continue to ignore the law while others, like Virgin Active, have course corrected?
Look forward to receiving your reply. Apologies for any mistakes in grammar or spelling.
We're now on first name terms. Despite me not using my name, just my initial, which means he's looked me up. Probably on the electoral register. His reply is just blah.