‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling

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2. Welcome to a small slice of the trans experience, I guess we all get to suffer the hate part together

3. But I thought everyone saying cis women would be harassed as a result of this ruling was just overreacting??

4. This is what was always going to happen. Yet again, it was a group using the battlecry of ‘protect our women and children!’ who are now using the result to beat up and gatekeep the very same women they claimed they wanted to protect.

5. This is the inevitable result of the recent backlash against trans people.

   I think in future we’re going to see a lot more unisex places.

6. The obvious and inevitable result of a decision based on bigotry and stupidity. In theory this should result in those angry bigots reevaluating their choices and recognizing their mistakes. But we all know that it won’t. They’ll be doubling down on their idiocy before we know it.

7. A family member of mine, who has lived in the US for over 20 years and has become increasingly aggressive in her politics, visited the UK recently and got all antsy when she watched daytime TV and was *sure* Allison Hammond was trans. Of course we said she wasn’t, but we were told “they tend to look like that” (no idea what that means, and she couldn’t explain).

8. Oh but JKKK Rowling and her fellow “champions of women’s rights” were saying they were only trying to protect cis women. So what people said would happen is now actually happening. Whoda thunk it!

9. Not sure why the Guardian are clutching their pearls now, given they’ve been part of the anti-trans news hype train. As early as 2018, US Guardian columnists were calling out the editorials of the UK edition for transphobia, and of course they have been publishing odious anti-trans pieces by Sonia Sodha for years.

   Maybe they’ve finally realised all the transphobia is having a deleterious effect on the lives of cis people too, or they’ve realised the attack on trans rights is the canary in the coalmine for attacks on other civil rights such as equal marriage and women’s bodily autonomy.

10. But it was ironically branded as ‘hysteria’ when people were predicting this would happen.

11. >At that moment, another woman, who Coronel presumes was the man’s wife,

    Plot twist, it was his husband.

12. We said this would happen and nobody listened to us. Unless the TERFs consider you to conform to their idea of womanhood then you must be a man!

13. Woah woah woah, are you meaning to tell me the terfs and other gender criticals don’t actually care about women and girls at all and just wanted to punch down??? Shocking who could’ve possibly seen that coming

14. I’m not gender non-conforming, I am a heterosexual cis woman who just so happens to look relatively masculine, and I’ve been accused of being trans at least ten times since the supreme court thing kicked off, compared with only five times in my twenty years of adult life prior. Most often in toilets, once in a changing room. I’m only 5’4″ as well so I expect it would be even worse if I were tall. I don’t have visible breasts and I dress in band t-shirts and jeans and have short hair, no makeup. I have no wish to change how I look, I’m very happy with my appearance but it’s very frustrating to get caught up in this bigotry, often a bit upsetting and I can honestly only imagine how bad I would feel if I were in fact part of a minority group.

15. The Guardian should be taking more responsibility than they are, since they’ve been hosting the smug “gender criticals” “just asking questions” for two decades now. They built this disaster of a social panic and its attendant human rights violations. They should own it.

    Edit: And of course, the “others call it scaremongering” is one gender critical who hasn’t had it happen to her, so naturally it doesn’t happen to anyone.

16. Can we just say Women in the headline, you don’t have to be “non-conforming” in order to be mistaken

17. “We just have reasonable concerns”

    *The transphobes take two steps back*

    “We just want to protect women and children”

    *The transphobes take two steps back*

    “We just want sex based rights protected”

    *The transphobes take two steps back*

    “Women should just act and dress more feminine, that way they won’t get harassed”

    *The transphobes take two steps back*

    “Women just need to carry their woman license to prove they are women enough”

    *The transphobes take two steps back*

    “Trans peoples healthcare should be banned.”

    *The transphobes take two steps back*

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