Thread by @MForstater

Re the word "cross dresser"

In 2016 Tara Hewitt delivering training on different trans identities; including fetishistic cross dresser and transvestite.

All of these come under the trans umbrella and taken as a reason for a male to be in a women's hospital ward

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1312821410868404227

All of this put under the "trans umbrella" and then switcheroo into the protected characteristic "gender reassignment" .... and from there into the idea of of self-ID as the opposite sex - and access to single sex services for the opposite sex.

This was how it happened.

This, from the case of Bellinger v Bellinger was what was meant by "transsexual" in 2003

pfc.org.uk/caselaw/Lords%…

A major process....

A four step process; psychiatric assessment, hormonal treatment , a period of living as the opposite sex then 'gender reassignment surgery'

By 2004 the Gender Recognition Act they dropped the requirement for surgery

In 2009, when the Equality Act was being enacted the requirement for medical supervision was dropped from the definition of the protected characteristic gender reassignment

And it was agreed that it would be very wide; a personal process - just changing name or dress style

But what was never discussed in any of this, as the definition of transgender was broadened and broadened was whether it gave access to single sex services shared with the opposite sex.

This was just never discussed

And if the government was going to propose that fetishistic cross dressing males and transvestites should be given access to toilets, changing rooms, showers, refuges, prisons and other places where women and girls are vulnerable.

Or to women's sports.

If that was the intention a democratic government would have discussed it.

Because it would be a massive infringement on women's rights

But they never did.

So here we are in 2020

A "gender fluid" man who was unhappy at not being allowed to use the ladies, and whose colleagues joked at the women's clothes worn to work was awarded enough money to buy a house and compared by the judge to Rosa Parks

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

The Solicitors Regulator Authority tells law firms they should allow male lawyers who cross dress in their gender expression to use the ladies toilets and changing areas

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1311945251226034176

And an MP that retweets a report with the word "cross dresser" in it faces calls for her to lose the whip

https://twitter.com/LGBTLabScot/status/1312714493609291776

Because they didn't talk about this then

And we mustn't talk about it now.

(apologies the Law Society, not the SRA - i keep getting this wrong)