@ashleyjames: Imagine living in a country where a woman is killed by a man every few days, where domestic abuse affects millions, where sexual violence is so widespread that almost every woman has a story, where girls grow up learning to hold their keys between their fingers, share their live location, avoid walking home alone and text “home safe” because male violence is such a normal part of life, where we’re still yet to see powerful men linked to the Epstein scandal facing criminal justice… …and somehow we’ve decided the biggest threat to women’s safety is trans people using the toilet. From 5 August, new guidance means trans people are expected to use toilets based on the sex they were assigned at birth. Apart from there being no evidence this will make women safer, it also means trans men may be directed into women’s spaces, and it opens the door to strangers deciding who looks “woman enough” to use a women’s toilet. We’ve already seen what that looks like in parts of the US, with women being challenged and intimidated because they didn’t fit someone else’s idea of femininity. We’re effectively inviting the public to police womanhood. Women deserve to be safe, and so do trans people. Those two things aren’t in competition with each other, no matter how often we’re encouraged to believe they are. I reject the idea that protecting women and protecting trans people are opposing goals. The same rigid ideas about gender that tell women how we’re supposed to look, behave and exist are the same ideas that punish anyone who doesn’t fit neatly into society’s expectations of masculinity or femininity. If your solution to violence against women requires us to ignore who’s actually committing it, it’s the wrong solution. I’m tired of women’s safety being used to fuel culture wars while violent men and the patriarchal attitudes that enable them continue to evade the same level of scrutiny. I’m sending love and solidarity to all my trans friends and followers. We keep fighting. 💖🏳️‍⚧️ #fyp

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Thursday 23 July 2026 16:06:28 GMT