Thank you for this Shonagh. I absolutely applaud this ruling and appeal for single sex spaces. It has been a ridiculous battle fought these past 20 years or so, brought about by misogynists who seek to control women, in my opinion, who have 'weaponised' the Trans community against women. This 'othering' and division is shocking in its effectiveness. I am NOT Cis anything. Cis means 'on the side of' in Latin. I am a woman. I am noone's 'Bit on the side'.
I am NOT anti-Trans. I am a carer and I cared for someone who went through transition surgery. The pain and the infections they endured because there simply wasn't adequate medical care was absolutely appalling. NOONE would go through that if they didn't have a very strong need to. Need not want.
BUT I am also a DV survivor, and I have been sexually assualted by a 'trans woman' in uniform without any right of complaint.
There needs to be a solution for all. Toilets are a basic biological need. It is ridiculous that we have had toilets for over 4000 years - since the Bronze age - and we haven't dealt with this issue. The first flushing toilet is attributed to Elizabethan courtier Sir John Harington in 1596. It was known as a water closet. It's why Americans call toilets a 'John'. This was centuries before Thomas Crapper's modern 'Lavatory'. So why is it, in the C21st - this basic biological need is so contentious?! The solution is simple - there cannot be three separate spaces in most places. But there can be lockable cubicles. No more communal changing spaces in shops, swimming pools and gyms. Give people the dignity they need and deserve.
Thank you for this Shonagh. I absolutely applaud this ruling and appeal for single sex spaces. It has been a ridiculous battle fought these past 20 years or so, brought about by misogynists who seek to control women, in my opinion, who have 'weaponised' the Trans community against women. This 'othering' and division is shocking in its effectiveness. I am NOT Cis anything. Cis means 'on the side of' in Latin. I am a woman. I am noone's 'Bit on the side'.
I am NOT anti-Trans. I am a carer and I cared for someone who went through transition surgery. The pain and the infections they endured because there simply wasn't adequate medical care was absolutely appalling. NOONE would go through that if they didn't have a very strong need to. Need not want.
BUT I am also a DV survivor, and I have been sexually assualted by a 'trans woman' in uniform without any right of complaint.
There needs to be a solution for all. Toilets are a basic biological need. It is ridiculous that we have had toilets for over 4000 years - since the Bronze age - and we haven't dealt with this issue. The first flushing toilet is attributed to Elizabethan courtier Sir John Harington in 1596. It was known as a water closet. It's why Americans call toilets a 'John'. This was centuries before Thomas Crapper's modern 'Lavatory'. So why is it, in the C21st - this basic biological need is so contentious?! The solution is simple - there cannot be three separate spaces in most places. But there can be lockable cubicles. No more communal changing spaces in shops, swimming pools and gyms. Give people the dignity they need and deserve.
Thank you Shonagh from Mo .
It is simply mind-boggling that we have to state the obvious -- and over and over and over and over again -- in 2025. Just staggering.
Thank you for your work and for trying to expose the insanity and destructiveness of "trans" ideology.
No. Just no.