Here we go again.

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said.

Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK after April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex.

Did he now. I wonder if he has any concerns about the climate for women.

Interim advice issued after the judgment by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in effect banned transgender people from using facilities according to their lived gender and allowed services to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services were protected.

Blah blah. People are not automatically allowed to do X according to their lived Y if Y is a fantasy that contradicts reality. That has never been a “right” except in theocracies. I could have a fantasy that I’m Keir Starmer, but I still wouldn’t be allowed to kick cis-Starmer out of 10 Downing Street.

In a letter to the respective chairs of the UK parliament’s joint committee on human rights and the women and equalities committee, O’Flaherty said there was a tendency in the UK to see the human rights of different groups as a “zero-sum game”.

He added: “This has contributed to narratives which build on prejudice against trans people and portray upholding their human rights as a de facto threat to the rights of others.”

Oh fuck off. It’s not a matter of “narratives”; it’s a matter of women’s rights. It’s trans ideology that relies on “narratives”; women are not a story but a fact, however stale and tiresome.

“Such a zero-sum approach risks certain inferences being drawn from the UK supreme court judgment that could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces.”

He means toilets. Men will be widely excluded from women’s toilets, but that does not exclude them from public spaces, because they can just use the men’s toilets, being as how they are men.

I’m so fed up with this tremulous lachrymose concern for men who playact being women at the expense of actual women. What about us, god damn it? Why is his fantasy about himself more important than our safety?

O’Flaherty said his letter “in no way detracts from the need to continue improving measures to prevent violence against women and girls, as well as the protection and promotion of women’s rights and gender equality more generally.”

Oh yes it does. That’s exactly what it does.