Glorianny
The problem is that you cannot legislate for certain spaces without imposing unnecessary and intrusive processes on all people which some women will object to. I certainly would object if a local sports centre demanded to know my natal gender, it would be female but why should I have to explain that to anyone? What you are then saying is that because you fear that some person may insinuate themselves into a certain space all women must conform and produce evidence to prove they are women. Sorry but that is really not advancing the cause of feminism at all, quite the opposite.
So how would you designate these spaces? How would you ensure only ADF entered them and what would you do to any person who infringed that.
I know the reply will be as always "It isn't up to me" but in my opinion asking for a policy with no clear idea of how it will be applied is simply irresponsible. If you have no idea why should any of our politicians know?
Is ADF a typo or another acronym?
I don't think it is up to me to solve this, any more than it is up to me to tell people how to ensure shoplifters don't shoplift, or smugglers don't smuggle. I'm not asking for a new policy, but a return to what has been custom and practice for many years.
How did it work before?
There would have been a very few transwomen in female spaces. They would be trying to 'pass' and unlikely to want to draw attention to themselves, so highly unlikely to cause any issues, and very few people would care. On the whole, women and girls go to the Ladies to relieve themselves, touch up their make-up, and maybe get away from men. If there were transwomen there they would not have had beards, leggings showing that they were obviously male, and would not have been aggressive. If a woman felt uncomfortable she could have asked for help from staff and be assumed to be right, rather than called transphobic and have the manager insist that the transwoman has a right to try on prom dresses in a changing room full of Muslim girls.
These are the sorts of people women object to, as we have said all along. There has not been a huge swell of transphobia, although as we have also said all along, the posturing blokes in frocks haven't helped the trans cause at all.
Speaking for myself, I wouldn't care if Hayley from Corrie was in the Ladies in her red coat, but I would not be happy with Eddie Izzard prancing about frightening teenagers.
The idea that Ladies Rooms should accommodate transwomen and the 'gender-neutral' means that our facilities are even more crowded than before - that should stop, IMO. Where there are changes to existing facilities, the Gents should accommodate male-bodied transwomen, and unisex loos should be proportional to the number of people with GRCs - not one on every floor in a university.
That may or may not work - I am not a Building Services Manager.
I also think that groups such as the WI should have the right to refuse entry to men - again, that could go back to being discretionary as was always the case.
