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Another thread: The argument for 'single-sex' spaces by the GC movement is an interesting one because it is nearly always framed around the exclusion of 'people with a penis' but if you even lightly scratch the surface, you'll find that it rarely means cis men, ironically. 1.
The preservation for single-sex spaces often comes down to toilets, prisons, hospital wards, and swimming pools. Yet there are no campaigns to bad male cleaners from these spaces (which are common), male prison guards or male health workers or visitors. 2.
Toilets: Posie Parker in her video the other day invited armed men into women's toilets to 'protect' women, most of which I assumed are also in ownership of a penis (though personally, I am more worried about the guns). Male cleaners are very common occurrences. 3.
Hospital wards: In my own experience single-sex wards are rarely so. After gyne surgery two years ago, pre-op I was in a unisex ward with closed rooms and felt safe. Post-op was put on women's ward. Here I was laid in my underwear (it was hot) unable to move as I was (4.)
Cathetered with a drip in. When the woman in the bed opposite was taken for a procedure leaving her visiting husband on the ward who fully stared at me until she came back. Not fun at all. There were also male cleaners and nurses (though they were absolutely lovely) 5.
Prisons: There is a known issue with male guards taking advantage of female prisoners, and yet I have never seen a single campaign to ban this. Pools. The pool I attend hasn't a single single-sex space in it. All communal areas are mixed, all cubicles private. It's fine. 6.
So I guess my suspicion over the 'single-sex' spaces argument is why it is rarely framed around a debate about trans people in the first place when it would seem that cis men often frequenting these places is not a problem for these women in the slightest? 7.END
