When Charlotte* discovered that a male colleague was using the women’s changing room at work, she raised the matter with her manager at the NHS. The colleague identified as a woman and had begun using a female name, but female staff had not been consulted about the effect on their changing arrangements.
“The matron spoke to HR and asked: ‘Where should this person change? They’re identifying as a woman.’ And HR said: ‘Well, they change wherever they want. If they want to use the female changing room, that’s what we need to let them do,’” she says.
See it?
If this man uses the female changing room (because “we need” to let them) then the females who used the female changing room are prevented from changing where they want to.
Why does this one man get to change in the female changing room because he wants to, at the expense of women who want to change in their changing room?
Why do all the women have to lose so that one man can win?
Why does that strike anyone as a solution? Why isn’t the problem, and the disproportion, screamingly obvious?
I don’t think I will ever understand how people manage to see this as reasonable and fair and not at all grotesque.
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