‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/ive-been-spat-on-gender-non-conforming-women-tell-of-toilet-abuse-in-aftermath-of-supreme-court-ruling
Posted by OdinForce22
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Welcome to a small slice of the trans experience, I guess we all get to suffer the hate part together
But I thought everyone saying cis women would be harassed as a result of this ruling was just overreacting??
This is what was always going to happen. Yet again, it was a group using the battlecry of ‘protect our women and children!’ who are now using the result to beat up and gatekeep the very same women they claimed they wanted to protect.
This is the inevitable result of the recent backlash against trans people.
I think in future we’re going to see a lot more unisex places.
The obvious and inevitable result of a decision based on bigotry and stupidity. In theory this should result in those angry bigots reevaluating their choices and recognizing their mistakes. But we all know that it won’t. They’ll be doubling down on their idiocy before we know it.
A family member of mine, who has lived in the US for over 20 years and has become increasingly aggressive in her politics, visited the UK recently and got all antsy when she watched daytime TV and was *sure* Allison Hammond was trans. Of course we said she wasn’t, but we were told “they tend to look like that” (no idea what that means, and she couldn’t explain).
Oh but JKKK Rowling and her fellow “champions of women’s rights” were saying they were only trying to protect cis women. So what people said would happen is now actually happening. Whoda thunk it!
Not sure why the Guardian are clutching their pearls now, given they’ve been part of the anti-trans news hype train. As early as 2018, US Guardian columnists were calling out the editorials of the UK edition for transphobia, and of course they have been publishing odious anti-trans pieces by Sonia Sodha for years.
Maybe they’ve finally realised all the transphobia is having a deleterious effect on the lives of cis people too, or they’ve realised the attack on trans rights is the canary in the coalmine for attacks on other civil rights such as equal marriage and women’s bodily autonomy.
But it was ironically branded as ‘hysteria’ when people were predicting this would happen.
>At that moment, another woman, who Coronel presumes was the man’s wife,
Plot twist, it was his husband.