Wait, there’s a thing here.

From the hearing today:

Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham later quizzed Ms Bumba over whether she had stated in guidance to NHS Fife that the nurse had the right to be gender critical.

She said she was “100% certain” she had done this.

The lawyer said Ms Bumba’s advice was inclusive of trans people but not women who would not want to share changing facilities with them, citing women who had been sexually assaulted or had religious beliefs.

And hey you know what? We just don’t want to, for a host of reasons, derived from a lifetime of being seen and treated as inferior in some way, by the media and the entertainment industry and by people we know and by ancient habits and the list is endless. We are on the back foot in relation to men, and we just don’t want to be forced to cuddle up with men in situations where we just don’t get to say no or walk away. We just don’t want to.

[Cunningham] accused Ms Bumba and NHS Fife of validating trans staff but sacrificing “the privacy, dignity and safety” of women in the process, which [Bumba] denied.

Ms Bumba said no women had raised concerns with her over trans staff sharing the changing facilities.

No of course they fucking didn’t. This is the thing I mentioned in the first paragraph. No of course they didn’t raise concerns with her, because they didn’t dare. They live in this suffocating atmosphere of Don’t You Dare that we all live in, and have lived in for ten years or more. We know what we’re not allowed to say, we know what the Isla Bumbas of the world will do to us if we say something else, we know we are not free to say no. Of course they didn’t “raise concerns” with her, just as a swimmer doesn’t “raise concerns” with that shark over there when there’s no rescue boat in sight. They didn’t raise concerns with her because they didn’t want her ruining their lives.