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Yeah, there's no legal difference between the two, because you don't need surgery to get... to self—identify in a particular way, or even to get a gender recognition certificate in this country. but i'm saying that there's a practical difference, because... so, you asked me what the problems were, and there are a range of problems — but if we focus on spaces where women get undressed, are vulnerable to sexual assault, and sexual assault by males is a problem for women in those spaces, somebody who has had absolutely no physical alteration, who looks male, you know, and we are hard—wired,...

Physical alteration, who looks male, you know, and we are hard—wired, pretty much, to be able to sex people by sight, that's the only means we have. a male in those spaces — when the policies say "yes, you may be there," then any male can be in those spaces, because they could all say, "i have an identity that is of a woman" — so we have, at the moment, in britain, we have males in women's prison, purely on the basis of self—id, not because they legally changed their sex, not because they had hormones or surgery, so any male effectively can say they have this identity, and that causes ...

There, the studies from 2018 on suggest that fears of increased safety and privacy violation as a result of non—discrimination laws are not empirically grounded. there is not the evidence. well, in this, i mean, for a start, you have to look at the studies and quite often when people say very blithely about other countries, "0h, they've had self—id for ages and there's been no problems", it turns out people haven't been looking or they haven't been asking women. but in this country, for instance, if you take males in the female prison estate, between 2016—2019, there's been seven sexual ...

When people say very blithely about other countries, "0h, they've had self—id for ages and there's been no problems", it turns out people haven't been looking or they haven't been asking women. but in this country, for instance, if you take males in the female prison estate, between 2016—2019, there's been seven sexual assaults on women. if you take the percentage of sex offenders amongst the trans population in prisons, it's 58% — and that's a recent figure — as opposed to 16% for the general population in prisons. so, that suggests that, of course, if you're not a predator and then y...

Ias they willjust stand up and say, i "oh, but i self—identify as a woman, i am allowed to be in this space." but some scottish women's advocacy groups highlight that trans women already access services like rape and domestic violence support. we have no concerns about the proposed reforms. we know that trans women access women's services anyway. we do not believe there are any proposed changes in the bill that will impact on single sex spaces, which already operate on a basis of self—id. the scottish government is likely to bring this bill to parliament in the next few weeks. some people ...