Square that circle
Do people just not recognize a flat contradiction when they see one? I mean a really blatantly obvious one, like “It’s raining it’s not raining”?
Apparently.
But of course they don’t. They don’t respect the choice of their members to use the changing rooms based on the gender they identify with: they don’t respect the choice of their members to use the changing rooms for women, because there are no such changing rooms. They refuse to provide women with women-only changing rooms, and then they boast a smug boast about respecting all the choices. If men get to use the men’s changing rooms and the women’s changing rooms then women are denied the right to use the women’s changing room – because there isn’t one.
Well, supporting and respecting the safety and privacy of all our members . . .
. . . except for the members who are women. Pffftt! Who cares about them?
I think the proponents of these “everyone can be comfortable where they like tralala” situations consider the women objecting to be of the same sort as say, a conservative Muslim man who objects to having a female judge rule on his trial in court. Basically, Forstater, the first ruling: Unworthy of respect in a democratic society.
But recent rulings determined that UK law actually requires separate facilities divided on the basis of sex. So not only is it internally inconsistent, it is also a lie.