>> I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but I am aware of my rights
>> to hold the opinions I choose.
No I meant that the EAT decision in the Forstater case I linked seems to confirm that the absolutist gender critical belief that natal sex is immutable was a Philosophical belief under the Equality Act. Had it gone the other way then, at least in some contexts, it's expression might put people in the frame for hate crime type actions. Indeed I think somebody was but the prosecution was either misguided or poorly presented.
>> I can think of no reason why women should be forced to share their safe
>> space with someone pretending to be a woman, however committed that person is to the
>> pretence. Nor why any male should refuse.
I'd start from the principle that trans women are women and then work out how to deal with miscreants who pretend to be women to gain access to such spaces.
Like a couple of others here I've watched a colleague transition male to female. Not somebody I saw every day, they were a ministerial appointment to a Quango so attended meetings etc on a monthly or so basis. Apparently they'd long felt miscast in the male gender but there was little option for exploring it in the sixties and they married etc. Only after being widowed did they do anything about it. Went through hormones, living in the acquired gender, and subsequently surgery.
None of the issues Manatee describes; female colleagues were totally supportive.
I really don't see how she can be described as 'someone pretending to be a woman'.
One of my son's oldest friends, they were babies at nursery together, is currently transitioning. Tom is very understanding and supportive of his friend and got quite upset last weekend when another of his schoolmates was dismissive of the issue.
SWMBO and I also have the transitioner as a Facebook friend so see some posts about the prejudices he experiences.
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