I read the case study the BBC story linked to, which was all about how awful it was having a man walk round with no trousers on and come & sit on your bed & say aggressively I'll sit where I like, which is indeed awful, but I couldn't really see why it was worse than having a woman behave inappropriately and aggressively on your ward. But then I realized: this isn't about mixed-sex or same-sex space, it's about the uncontrollability of male violence.* Which, it seems to me, is a problem better solved by holding men accountable for their actions and not condoning/promoting male aggression than by rigging up vote-winning strategies which rely on an assumption that only gender-conforming cis people are entitled to 'dignity' (or indeed medical treatment).
So, in short, in the end I got quite angry about this.
*At least, I haven't seen any arguments from men saying they're scared or uncomfortable when women are around, and I'm leaving the modesty stuff to one side for the moment.
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I read the case study the BBC story linked to, which was all about how awful it was having a man walk round with no trousers on and come & sit on your bed & say aggressively I'll sit where I like, which is indeed awful, but I couldn't really see why it was worse than having a woman behave inappropriately and aggressively on your ward. But then I realized: this isn't about mixed-sex or same-sex space, it's about the uncontrollability of male violence.* Which, it seems to me, is a problem better solved by holding men accountable for their actions and not condoning/promoting male aggression than by rigging up vote-winning strategies which rely on an assumption that only gender-conforming cis people are entitled to 'dignity' (or indeed medical treatment).
So, in short, in the end I got quite angry about this.
*At least, I haven't seen any arguments from men saying they're scared or uncomfortable when women are around, and I'm leaving the modesty stuff to one side for the moment.