Originally a comment by maddog on Some memberz of the communniny.

While the full implications of the ruling are not yet clear, some members of the trans community feel threatened by it.

BBC, how can you even say that? Of course the implications are clear! Did you even read the opinion? Where the Act says “sex” or “women” or “men,” it means biological sex. What could they have said to make it any more clear?

The Supreme Court also held that discrimination against someone because of their gender identity is also prohibited, but the acts proscribed have to be actually attributable to the person’s transgender status. The two might overlap when a transgender person is actually perceived as the opposite sex, and the discriminatory act was done because of Animus against perceived sex. The transgender person would have to actually pass as the sex they are not for that to apply. Trans identified men don’t generally pass as women. Trans identified women might have a better chance of passing as a man, but then, men are rarely the targets of sex discrimination.

What is “threatening” about the ruling for trans identified males? The major “threat” is that they don’t get to violate women’s boundaries any more. Wow, what a threat! They might feel “threatened,” ie., fearful of how other men in men’s bathrooms or locker rooms might treat them. That’s an issue of male-on-male violence. That’s a worry that has concerned insufficiently “masculine” men forever; it’s not unique to trans identified males. It’s a problem for the men to solve among themselves. They don’t get to use women as human shields. As between men and women, men have a better chance of protecting themselves against male violence than women do of protecting themselves against male violence. It’s the men’s problem, not women’s problem to solve at the expense of their own rights and safety.

Beyond that, what are trans identified men “threatened” with? Oh no! “Misgendering”! Ie., correctly identifying their sex. Deadnaming! Oh no, can’t hide former misdeeds behind a new name. Being looked at! Oh noes! People might look at a man funny for wearing so-called women’s clothes. Guess what? Men can wear whatever they want. They do it TO BE looked at; but now they don’t want people to look, because they don’t get the privilege of sticking it to women.

Kate Lankester, a 25-year-old trans woman who works in trans healthcare, says life is “a living hell”.

“I’m walking out of the house scared every single day,” she says. “I worry about who’s looking. I worry if someone’s going to say something to me.”

A “living hell” ? Really? Because people might look at him? Because someone might “say something” to him? It’s like that old saw about:

What are men afraid of? That someone might laugh at them.

What are women afraid of? Being raped and/or killed.

See the difference?

What nonsense the BBC is peddling after this ruling.