Leaked Guidance: Staff May Expel ‘Masculine’ Women from UK Restrooms

This drags us back to judging femininity by how tight you tie your corset.

The Land Of Green Ginger

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The Telegraph recently leaked new guidance coming out of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a public body charged with the promotion and enforcement of equality and non-discrimination laws in England, Scotland and Wales. This is the same EHRC that just had its hands slapped by Labour for its original guidance that read like it had been ghostwritten by an anti-transgender activist like J.K. Rowling herself.

But the latest leaked document, the so-called rewrite, reads like something dug out of a Victorian filing cabinet. According to reports, it suggests staff at business and public-service establishments could question or even remove trans women from women’s toilets, changing rooms, or other single-sex areas based on how feminine they look.

I don’t think I’m speaking out of turn when I say this has nothing to do with safeguarding or clarity, but it has everything to do with gender profiling. And it drags us back to an era where femininity was judged by how tight you tied your corset.

The absurdity is obvious. How exactly do you measure whether a woman looks feminine enough? Whose checklist are we using? And what…