For Women Scotland back in February:

Imagine, if you will, a man called Pete. Pete is a manly-man, tall, with a beard and well-developed muscles. He’s also not real – or at least there may be many such men called Pete in the world, but the Pete who became a talking point in the Sandie Peggie tribunal this week is an invention of Naomi Cunningham, the barrister acting for Ms Peggie. Pete, Ms Cunningham suggested, enters the female changing rooms where a woman stands in her bra: he fails to leave; he shuts the door and walks into the room; he starts to undress. At what stage is a woman allowed to feel uncomfortable or scared? Well, according to the Doctor who was, by his own testimony, distressed, upset, and scared of an encounter with a “hostile” and “aggressive” (his words) nurse, the response of the unclothed woman should depend on the state of Pete’s mind. After all, the fictitious Pete claimed to identify as a woman and no-one, least of all mere actual women, should be permitted to question his sincerity…

Without knowing Pete’s intention, Dr Upton said, we couldn’t judge his conduct in walking into the ladies and starting to strip, “I don’t consider it to be inherently menacing or sexual”, it might provoke “tricky conversations” about how we view gender and a “lack of willingness in a transphobic society to explore gender identity”, but ultimately Pete deserves to be treated with respect. In other words, suck it up, women!

Ah yes, he doesn’t consider it inherently menacing or sexual, so people who do are just wrong, and transphobic besides.

For Upton, a woman’s unwillingness to be in a vulnerable state with a strange man is not dependent on her fears but her bigotry. She may only be be 5’6” to his 6ft, he may be a fit young man of 28 to her 50 years, he may have the advantage of class and connections, but in his telling, she represents the oppressor class. He was scared and shaking at being alone with a termagant: “I’ve never been spoken to like that in my life!”, he said on more than one occasion…

That would explain a lot. Can you say “long overdue”?