Women who transitioned decades ago feel their safety and security has suddenly been removed
Last week’s supreme court ruling sent shock waves through the UK’s trans community.
The unanimous judgment said the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).
That feeling was compounded when Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is preparing new statutory guidance, said the judgment meant only biological women could use single-sex changing rooms and toilets.
Can someone clarify, which rights? To use this toilet instead of that toilet?
Women being forced to enter men’s bathroom submit themselves to staring and danger of harassment
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Lockable stalls you cannot peek into
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What do you mean “what do you mean by woman”? The women who are the focus of this article and this comment thread.
Well it depends on the definition, which is the whole point of the article i.e. was defined by the UK supreme court as a biological female. So by that definition, who is forcing a woman to go into a man’s bathroom?
Besides maybe cases like intercourse and medical, “woman” and “man” are social roles formed by identity and perception, instead of genital-determined conditions (nobody sees your organs in public, i hope). Therefore, whoever identifies as a woman and is perceived socially like a woman, is a woman. That includes many serious trans women, who will be women in a men’s bathroom.
which is why bathrooms would be better suited by being separated by gender, not sex
Oh, you know, the right to being legally recognized as the gender on your official Gender Recognition Certificate, which cost money and was issued by the federal government (and was explicitly stated on government websites to be legally equivalent to being born the stated gender).
Federal government in the UK? The UK isn’t a federation, so doesn’t have a federal government.
Okay, well a national entity of some kind is the one issuing these certificates, from my understanding. If you lived in Scotland, it would be issued by the government of Scotland. In my country, we use the term federal because we are a confederation.