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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
What i posted above is exactly what the spokesperson said on sky news
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Assuming it’s this clip (seems it was Maya Forstater rather than Helen Joyce) …
… that’s not what she said at all. She said that a woman who has gone to extreme lengths to look like a man can legitimately be excluded from a female toilet, according to the EHRC guidance published this week. The interviewer’s question is at 2:20 and Forstater’s answer follows immediately after.
The reverse would not be the case because a man presenting very convincingly as a woman (and there are way fewer of those than you think) is not nearly as likely to cause distress to men he encounters in a men’s toilet.
It’s worth pointing out that Maya Forstater is in the vanguard here, as she was the one who won (on appeal) her case against the Centre for Global Development in Europe, successfully arguing that knowing what a man and a woman are, and saying so on Twitter (euphemistically known as ‘gender critical beliefs’) are not grounds for employers engaging in direct workplace discrimination. She is a subject matter expert.