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Transgender women will not be prosecuted in the use of women’s single sex facilities

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Theotheruser · Yesterday 14:11

You can support transgender rights or not but the law isn’t itself politics. Transgender women will not be prosecuted in the use of women’s single sex facilities in public in the standard use the facilities was built for.

A standard use is:

  • A transgender woman goes into the women’s toilet facilities in a cubicle for the purposes of relieving bodily fluids.
  • A transgender woman goes into the women’s changing facilities in a cubicle for the purposes of removing clothing for leisure activities.
  • A transgender woman goes into the women’s toilet facilities to protect the transgender women of being attacked or sexually assaulted.

A transgender woman in the standard uses of the women’s facilities are not exposing the users of the single sex facilities.

A transgender woman in the standard uses of the women’s facilities are not exposing child users in the single sex facilities.

A child user using single sex women’s facilities can’t deny other women public access of the facilities the child user believes are transgender.

With official documentation of the new sex will be difficult to disprove the claim of the transgender women being the male sex.

No harassment or sexual offences can be found against the transgender woman in the standard use of the women’s facilities with official documentation of the new sex.

A woman in the women’s single sex facility can be prosecuted for an offence and or removed if the woman is abusing or harassing the other user of being transgender without proof.

A woman recording and sharing publicly the other user without proof of being transgender can prosecuted.

The Supreme Court ruling or EHRC guidance has not changed the law to prosecute transgender women in women’s single sex spaces.

Transgender women have history of official records to support beyond a reasonable doubt the new gender identity. Have protection of gender discrimination.

Prosecution of transgender women is not going to work in the standard uses of the women’s facilities.

A woman can complain to management but unless management decides to take action to resolve the issue no action can be taken against the other user.

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murasaki · Yesterday 19:16

OneDarkDeer · Yesterday 19:13

I can’t imagine any trans person feeling comfortable in a space for their birth sex

Tough. When you make a lifestyle choice, the law doesn't bend around you.

OneDarkDeer · Yesterday 19:16

CityonFire · Yesterday 19:14

Why is that more important than the discomfort of women who are forced to share with males?

I didn’t say it’s more important. The discomfort of both groups is equally important which is why adequate alternative provision is needed

OneDarkDeer · Yesterday 19:17

murasaki · Yesterday 19:16

Tough. When you make a lifestyle choice, the law doesn't bend around you.

Not a lifestyle choice but ok

CityonFire · Yesterday 19:17

OneDarkDeer · Yesterday 19:16

I didn’t say it’s more important. The discomfort of both groups is equally important which is why adequate alternative provision is needed

But they won’t accept that, and frankly I’m past caring because they’ve never shown an ounce of care about women’s discomfort.

CityonFire · Yesterday 19:19

OneDarkDeer · Yesterday 19:17

Not a lifestyle choice but ok

It’s a lifestyle choice for a lot of transwomen. The ones who post videos of themselves wanking in the women’s toilets and stealing used tampons aren’t poor confused men who’ve been born in the wrong body, are they?

Boiledbeetle · Yesterday 19:20

@MyAmpleSheep

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Transgender women will not be prosecuted in the use of women’s single sex facilities
Theotheruser · Yesterday 19:22

CityonFire · Yesterday 19:13

Can you tell us why they can’t use the men’s?

The risk assessment couldn’t guarantee the 💯 safety of the transgender women using the man’s toilets. Health and Safety reasons. A transgender woman must be given facilities to use. There is one disabled toilet but if it was out of order. The transgender woman can use the women’s toilets.

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Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 19:22

Hahaha

needs a chess board

Taztoy · Yesterday 19:24

Theotheruser · Yesterday 19:22

The risk assessment couldn’t guarantee the 💯 safety of the transgender women using the man’s toilets. Health and Safety reasons. A transgender woman must be given facilities to use. There is one disabled toilet but if it was out of order. The transgender woman can use the women’s toilets.

So why is it safe for a man to use the women’s ?

CityonFire · Yesterday 19:24

Theotheruser · Yesterday 19:22

The risk assessment couldn’t guarantee the 💯 safety of the transgender women using the man’s toilets. Health and Safety reasons. A transgender woman must be given facilities to use. There is one disabled toilet but if it was out of order. The transgender woman can use the women’s toilets.

But why not? What was the actual safety issue? How is a man peeing with other men at risk but women peeing with men not?

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 19:25

Theotheruser · Yesterday 18:55

Workplace policy of my employer. All of us women accepted the transgender employee must have a toilet and can use the women’s toilet if the disabled toilet is out of order.

“All of us women” 👍

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 19:26

OneDarkDeer · Yesterday 19:13

I can’t imagine any trans person feeling comfortable in a space for their birth sex

I guess that’s too bad, given that’s how sex based spaces work.

Boiledbeetle · Yesterday 19:27

Theotheruser · Yesterday 17:40

/TransgenderUK and Feminism here are echo chambers. I use women’s spaces as I was born female but I do see both sides of the issue. The issue is transgender women are not going away and will use women’s spaces and women are not going to be prosecuting transgender women. It takes courage to prosecute and it is unsafe. Cancel culture is alive.

It is easier to not notice a transgender woman in the women’s space and go on with your life.

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It is easier to not notice a transgender woman in the women’s space and go on with your life.

It's actually easier for the man to just stay the fuck out of somewhere he's not supposed to be. But that thought doesn't even seem to occur to you does it?

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 19:27

Theotheruser · Yesterday 18:55

Workplace policy of my employer. All of us women accepted the transgender employee must have a toilet and can use the women’s toilet if the disabled toilet is out of order.

And if a new woman joins who objects, she can veto it, policy or no policy.

murasaki · Yesterday 19:28

The law can't guarantee 100% safety for anyone.

They can take their chances in the men's. Most men just want to get and out and not even look at anyone, according to DP.

Admit, they're there in the women's for passing validation, and bonus points if it's inconsenting women.

We see it.

Theotheruser · Yesterday 19:29

CityonFire · Yesterday 19:24

But why not? What was the actual safety issue? How is a man peeing with other men at risk but women peeing with men not?

I can’t say. The manager told the women in the break room to decide if a transgender woman can use the toilet or not. We know the person for 5 years and non of the women had issues with the person and respected us. We accepted.

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murasaki · Yesterday 19:30

Anyone who is so keen to transgress both the law, and the rights of women, whether for themselves or by proxy , probably needs their hard drive checked.

Boiledbeetle · Yesterday 19:30

Theotheruser · Yesterday 18:04

Transgender people have come out of the closet and won’t be going back in.

We need a truce of sorts.

Nope. No truce.

The men just need to go back in the gents where they belong.

Taztoy · Yesterday 19:30

Theotheruser · Yesterday 19:29

I can’t say. The manager told the women in the break room to decide if a transgender woman can use the toilet or not. We know the person for 5 years and non of the women had issues with the person and respected us. We accepted.

Im not sure that your manager should have done that given the imbalance of power. I do hope you are in a Union.

CornishDaughteroftheDawn · Yesterday 19:31

MarieDeGournay · Yesterday 18:21

You way you describe transwomen, they come across very badly:
Not only do they not respect the law, they clearly don't respect women, and now you say they also don't respect disabled people?
If what you say is true, that's despicable!

It will be the disabled toilets business will use as third and fourth spaces. The toilet will be clogged or dirty so it will be bad for disabled people.

Is this user also accusing trans people of being unable to leave the toilet in an acceptable state? I’m very confused.

Ereshkigalangcleg · Yesterday 19:31

You sound well aware that this man is not a woman op, as does your manager, and everyone else. Funny that.

BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth · Yesterday 19:32

This thread is gold! So much material, it's like it's Christmas 😁

Shortshriftandlethal · Yesterday 19:32

Theotheruser · Yesterday 17:58

We need to be honest. I have a daughter to support and I need my job to pay the bills and I can’t afford to do that if I start policing the women’s spaces.

Transgender women have won. Prosecuting will not happen and that why I wrote the post. It’s all talk. It will not happen. It takes courage and money and with the cost of living crisis I don’t want to lose my job or house.

Sorry to burst that bubble, but the argument has already been won; and even if you don't have the time or bandwidth to pursue it further, there are plenty of committed people who are - along with a purpose built legal and campaign structure to facilitate it.

Heggettypeg · Yesterday 19:32

Theotheruser · Yesterday 19:29

I can’t say. The manager told the women in the break room to decide if a transgender woman can use the toilet or not. We know the person for 5 years and non of the women had issues with the person and respected us. We accepted.

And if any of the women had had issues and had dared to say so, how would that have been received?

OneDarkDeer · Yesterday 19:32

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