Janice isn’t claiming to speak for all women, @PennyRed, but given that you aren’t one (‘the category of “woman” does not fully describe my lived experience’) it’s hard to see why you should be speaking for any women at all.

Literally nobody thinks the Supreme Court ruling ‘legislates trans people out of existence.’ Trans people have exactly the same rights and protections they had before the ruling, and unless they’ve mass combusted while I wasn’t paying attention, I’m fairly sure they continue to exist.

If some trans-identified people in the UK are currently experiencing rage and disappointment because the Supreme Court clarified that they don’t have rights they believed they had, the responsibility lies firmly with activist groups and sections of the media who’ve persistently argued, falsely, that gender transition turned a person into the opposite sex for all practical purposes in the eyes of the law.

You can personally take some responsibility for that state of affairs, of course, because you’ve spent the last few years enthusiastically championing the removal of single-sex spaces for women and girls. Indeed, you went so far as to tell the mother of a fifteen-year-old who asked how her daughter was supposed to feel on discovering a penised stranger in the girls’ changing rooms, ‘I’d tell her it’s rude to stare at other people’s genitals.’ That anti-woman, anti-safeguarding quip puts you right up there with every male creep who’s spent recent years insisting women and girls have no right to privacy, dignity or safety.

You’ll undoubtedly continue to offer your contributions to the debate, but don’t be too surprised if a lot of old-school women (the boring kind who’ve been deprived of the fascinating experiences that make you non-binary and genderqueer) find it supremely easy to disregard anything you’ve got to say on the subject.

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