Holly Stewart
@rafacoyote.bsky.social
Lifelong US Democrat holding the line that human sex is binary, immutable, and of consequence in law and society.
Your opinion of what’s adequate notwithstanding, it’s UK law when employees must change at work: completely separate facilities or separate hours of access for men and women. This was true even before the UK Supreme Court made clear that where the word women appears in law, it doesn’t include men.
July 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Your opinion of what’s adequate notwithstanding, it’s UK law when employees must change at work: completely separate facilities or separate hours of access for men and women. This was true even before the UK Supreme Court made clear that where the word women appears in law, it doesn’t include men.
In his testimony, the male MD at the center of this case said he was a biological woman. Presumably the extraordinarily complacent supervisory nurse has considerable training, as well. People put their brains into sleep mode the instant the magic word “trans” was uttered.
July 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In his testimony, the male MD at the center of this case said he was a biological woman. Presumably the extraordinarily complacent supervisory nurse has considerable training, as well. People put their brains into sleep mode the instant the magic word “trans” was uttered.
I’m an androgynous lesbian who’s often “misgendered.” I smile and reply. When people apologize—unnecessarily—I thank them for caring about women’s spaces. Life goes on. There are far more well-meaning people in the world than you seem to believe.
July 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I’m an androgynous lesbian who’s often “misgendered.” I smile and reply. When people apologize—unnecessarily—I thank them for caring about women’s spaces. Life goes on. There are far more well-meaning people in the world than you seem to believe.
Women SHOULD use women’s facilities. Men have a right to privacy and dignity, too.
What will women do when masculine women use the women’s room? What we always have: Look twice, possible ask and listen, then relax. You put a lot of stock in “passing,” much more than experience warrants.
What will women do when masculine women use the women’s room? What we always have: Look twice, possible ask and listen, then relax. You put a lot of stock in “passing,” much more than experience warrants.
July 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Women SHOULD use women’s facilities. Men have a right to privacy and dignity, too.
What will women do when masculine women use the women’s room? What we always have: Look twice, possible ask and listen, then relax. You put a lot of stock in “passing,” much more than experience warrants.
What will women do when masculine women use the women’s room? What we always have: Look twice, possible ask and listen, then relax. You put a lot of stock in “passing,” much more than experience warrants.
Does this sound to you like an organization open to learning?
June 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Does this sound to you like an organization open to learning?
I’ll just leave this here. It’s from the most-liked comments on the @scotnational.bsky.social’s very sympathetic write-up of a Saturday’s topless protest at Holyrood.
May 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I’ll just leave this here. It’s from the most-liked comments on the @scotnational.bsky.social’s very sympathetic write-up of a Saturday’s topless protest at Holyrood.
No arrests reported. Apparently trans-identifying men ARE men in the eyes of UK law.
May 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
No arrests reported. Apparently trans-identifying men ARE men in the eyes of UK law.
What the court ruled is that sex in law refers to human beings’ immutable, biological, binary sex and that biological men/boys and women/girls do not have and have never had a claim on opposite-sex rights.
April 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
What the court ruled is that sex in law refers to human beings’ immutable, biological, binary sex and that biological men/boys and women/girls do not have and have never had a claim on opposite-sex rights.
What a concept! Lol, no.
April 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
What a concept! Lol, no.
No one’s rights have been taken away. Britain’s Equality Act still protects people from discrimination based on gender reassignment. The UK Supreme Court’s care on this point is covered in the NYTimes article, sensationalist headline and lede notwithstanding.
April 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
No one’s rights have been taken away. Britain’s Equality Act still protects people from discrimination based on gender reassignment. The UK Supreme Court’s care on this point is covered in the NYTimes article, sensationalist headline and lede notwithstanding.
World Athletics’ one-time cheek swabs will protect women’s sports. Meanwhile in the US, NCAA “reforms” permit men in women’s changing rooms, hotel rooms on the road, and—via legally altered birth certificates—competition. Cycling is worse: Men can compete as women if they just don’t win too much. 🗑️🔥
April 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
World Athletics’ one-time cheek swabs will protect women’s sports. Meanwhile in the US, NCAA “reforms” permit men in women’s changing rooms, hotel rooms on the road, and—via legally altered birth certificates—competition. Cycling is worse: Men can compete as women if they just don’t win too much. 🗑️🔥
Rape is overwhelmingly a male crime, by numbers and, in UK law, by definition. Before this decision, a woman in Scotland traumatized by rape had no right to request a female counselor or therapy group. Do you honestly not see the cruelty in that?
April 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Rape is overwhelmingly a male crime, by numbers and, in UK law, by definition. Before this decision, a woman in Scotland traumatized by rape had no right to request a female counselor or therapy group. Do you honestly not see the cruelty in that?
Trans-identifying women don’t compromise other women’s sex-based rights to privacy, dignity, and safety. They DO violate men’s sex-based rights, though. And gay men are increasingly outspoken about women sex pests who identify as gay men.
April 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Trans-identifying women don’t compromise other women’s sex-based rights to privacy, dignity, and safety. They DO violate men’s sex-based rights, though. And gay men are increasingly outspoken about women sex pests who identify as gay men.
You have no better argument to make to people who don’t accept your article of faith that transwomen are women? Doesn’t that give you pause?
April 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
You have no better argument to make to people who don’t accept your article of faith that transwomen are women? Doesn’t that give you pause?
Adult human female. Female has a stable definition as well: developing along the reproductive path organized around the production of large gametes (ova or eggs).
April 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Adult human female. Female has a stable definition as well: developing along the reproductive path organized around the production of large gametes (ova or eggs).
You’re a trans-identifying man? If so, you have the rights of every other British man. If you can show that being trans means you’re paid less than other men at work, or denied equal access to housing or education, UK law protects you. The only thing you can’t do is claim women’s sex-based rights.
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April 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
You’re a trans-identifying man? If so, you have the rights of every other British man. If you can show that being trans means you’re paid less than other men at work, or denied equal access to housing or education, UK law protects you. The only thing you can’t do is claim women’s sex-based rights.
The UK Supreme Court held that trans-identifying men have the sex-based rights of men, because they are men; trans-identifying women have the rights of women. Discrimination will be determined by how people are treated compared to others in their sex category, whatever their gender identity may be.
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The UK Supreme Court held that trans-identifying men have the sex-based rights of men, because they are men; trans-identifying women have the rights of women. Discrimination will be determined by how people are treated compared to others in their sex category, whatever their gender identity may be.
I know, right? Take your bias toward reality and clarity in law and language somewhere else!
April 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know, right? Take your bias toward reality and clarity in law and language somewhere else!
Peggie is the plaintiff at the tribunal. NHS and Upton are the defendants. Feel free to root for a settlement and complete climb-down by NHS if you like. But dismissing the case is not in Sandie Peggie’s interest.
April 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Peggie is the plaintiff at the tribunal. NHS and Upton are the defendants. Feel free to root for a settlement and complete climb-down by NHS if you like. But dismissing the case is not in Sandie Peggie’s interest.
No, I’m concerned with the very real places where sex matters in law and society. When rights clash, ideally they’re negotiated. Instead, the UK, US, Canada, etc have largely replaced sex in law with gender, erasing legal protections for women’s safety, and for women’s and men’s privacy and dignity.
February 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No, I’m concerned with the very real places where sex matters in law and society. When rights clash, ideally they’re negotiated. Instead, the UK, US, Canada, etc have largely replaced sex in law with gender, erasing legal protections for women’s safety, and for women’s and men’s privacy and dignity.
A workplace changing room isn’t a public place and isn’t governed by the Equality Act. Where changing clothes at work is required, Workplace (Health, Safety, and Wellbeing) Regulations 1992 require employers to provide single-sex changing rooms or schedules. No exceptions.
February 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A workplace changing room isn’t a public place and isn’t governed by the Equality Act. Where changing clothes at work is required, Workplace (Health, Safety, and Wellbeing) Regulations 1992 require employers to provide single-sex changing rooms or schedules. No exceptions.
Why would Danish women be any more comfortable than women elsewhere undressing in front of their male workmates?
Does your workplace expect employees to strip to their underclothes twice per shift with colleagues of the opposite sex? That’s what NHSFife expected nurses to do.
Does your workplace expect employees to strip to their underclothes twice per shift with colleagues of the opposite sex? That’s what NHSFife expected nurses to do.
February 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Why would Danish women be any more comfortable than women elsewhere undressing in front of their male workmates?
Does your workplace expect employees to strip to their underclothes twice per shift with colleagues of the opposite sex? That’s what NHSFife expected nurses to do.
Does your workplace expect employees to strip to their underclothes twice per shift with colleagues of the opposite sex? That’s what NHSFife expected nurses to do.