Women only spaces will always be needed to assist women to lead full lives in the public sphere. At work, school/ university, in public shopping centres. Women need to be in these places and need to be able to attend void, defecate, change menstrual products without males present. Pregnant women, women with any kind of disability, mother…
Women only spaces will always be needed to assist women to lead full lives in the public sphere. At work, school/ university, in public shopping centres. Women need to be in these places and need to be able to attend void, defecate, change menstrual products without males present. Pregnant women, women with any kind of disability, mothers with small children - all need the safety of women only facilities even more. Men, even ones who dress like women, in women's spaces will drive the most vulnerable women out of public life. This is deeply unjust. And the women who blithely agree that men who think they are meant to be women are fine in women's facilities - are not thinking of the cancer patient who is struggling with a new stoma. Or the women who have been abused before. Or whose religion forbids them being near unknown men. Women are a diverse group. And many have every reason to be fearful of strange men. And any man who feels he 'should' use the women's toilets as a matter of principle is strange indeed.
Women only spaces will always be needed to assist women to lead full lives in the public sphere. At work, school/ university, in public shopping centres. Women need to be in these places and need to be able to attend void, defecate, change menstrual products without males present. Pregnant women, women with any kind of disability, mothers with small children - all need the safety of women only facilities even more. Men, even ones who dress like women, in women's spaces will drive the most vulnerable women out of public life. This is deeply unjust. And the women who blithely agree that men who think they are meant to be women are fine in women's facilities - are not thinking of the cancer patient who is struggling with a new stoma. Or the women who have been abused before. Or whose religion forbids them being near unknown men. Women are a diverse group. And many have every reason to be fearful of strange men. And any man who feels he 'should' use the women's toilets as a matter of principle is strange indeed.