This is an en essay i wrote regarding the 2025 edit to the sex and gender sections of the uk 2010 equality act and it’s absolute bullshittery. Don’t feel obliged to read it, however you are completely welcome to !!!!!!
Hope you all are having a good day, fuck J K Rowling and Fuck transphobes and homophobes !!!! Enjoy :)
THE MATTER OF TRANSPHOBIA AND BATHROOMS.
J.K.Rowling: Rich, beloved, influential. One of the most famous authors of one of the most well known and well loved book series of all time. Writing books since 1990, with a net worth of roughly 1.22 billion USD. Also, a massive T.E.R.F. (trans. Exclusionary. Radical. feminist)
J.K. Rowling has been gradually changing from fame to infamy among the LGBTQ+ community since her first reposting of a transphobic tweet in the year of 2018. Since then, verbally supporting numerous anti-trans posts and campaigns. However, her path to bigoted villainy took a steep incline in May of 2025 as she donated £70,000 towards a transphobic ‘feminist’ group’s campaign, with the goal to edit the sex and gender sections of the 2010 equality act. This edit was regarding the definition of ‘sex’ in the legislation surrounding the necessity of single-sex bathrooms in all non-domestic buildings. They campaigned for the term ‘sex’ to be defined as biological sex, which meant: transgender women cannot go in women's bathrooms and transgender men can not go in male bathrooms. It was passed, and it has only made things worse.
“For Women Scotland” -the group responsible for the campaign- have stated that this law change is to protect women. Their main and rather imbecilic argument is that: because transwomen are allowed to use women’s bathrooms, predatory men will also be able to enter women's bathrooms freely under the guise of being a transwomen. Gender Clinics, especially in the UK, have exceptionally long waitlists, for example: the current estimated wait for even your first appointment at the The Sandyford NHS Gender Identity Clinic (for Adults) in Glasgow as of December 2025 is 7 years and 1 month. Due to this most trans people turn to private gender clinics which, according to transunite, the average cost of fully privately transitioning (within the uk) is approximately £20,000 including aftercare. Why would a man spend over 7 years and £20,000 to fully transition as a transwoman just to enter a women’s bathroom when he could just as easily enter as a man? Women’s bathrooms aren’t guarded. If a predatory man wanted to enter a women’s bathroom to commit acts of sexual violence upon someone, he would do it.
This change has actually resulted in more men in women’s bathrooms, not less. Trans men, people who identify as a man and can have anywhere from a completely feminine appearance to a grizzled traditionally masculine appearance - flat chest, penis and all - are also being forced into women’s bathrooms, it's completely counterproductive to their desired goal. They didn't want men in their bathrooms but yet have simultaneously dragged quite possibly testosterone filled trans-men back into women’s bathrooms by their hair. Isn’t poor Aunt Gertrude going to get a bit of a shock when she goes to wash her hands and sees a bearded man washing his hands too? Isn't that poor man going to feel incredibly uncomfortable in a bathroom he’s never felt he belonged in as women look at him like he’s a predator?...a monster?
The definition of transgender is: “denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with the sex registered for them at birth.”
But what does that actually mean?
Imagine that one night while you’re sleeping someone comes by, steals your brain and places it in the body of the opposite sex. You open your eyes, go to the mirror and see an appearance that is not, and doesn’t feel like you. You’d scream. Although this scenario sounds like the premise of a run of the mill Stephen King novel, this is the reality for thousands of trans people throughout the world. Although it may take some longer to understand what these feelings mean than others (gender is not a strict bullet point activity plan), our entire form can feel wrong. Body horror. Although the myriad of transphobic opinions may lead you to think otherwise, there are not millions of us marching at your door with swords and shields. In fact, a survey done in 2021 across England and Wales asked the question: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth ?” Out of the roughly 45.7 million people over the age of 16 that were sent it (roughly 94% of the population), 38,000 people did not answer, 45.4 million answered yes and only; 262,000 answered no. That is only 0.5% of the responses, not exactly a hoard is it?
Trans people are not new. There is physical evidence of people not identifying with their birth gender since as far back as Ancient Mesopotamia - one of the earliest known civilisations - especially within the cult of the goddess Innana, (the queen of heaven and goddess of: sex, war and justice). She was believed to have the power to alter someone’s gender (this power being described in numerous poems). The members of the cult of Inanna were known to look incredibly androgynous and people who were non-binary were majorly associated with the cult. This gender fluidity and freedom of gender identity was also exhibited in the poem “passionate Inanna” (written by the high priestess) mentioning a person who was born as a woman but was then blessed by the goddess Inanna who gave them a spear (symbolising masculinity) and renamed them Pilipili. This freedom of identity was not just isolated to Mesopotamia either. The “Galli”, an order dedicated to the goddess Cybele (a maternal figure also known as the Great Mother) arrived in Rome at some point around 300 BCE. Members were assigned male at birth but donned women's clothing, makeup and hairstyles, some choosing to be castrated. After the initial stir surrounding their arrival, they were accepted into Roman society, in-turn completely breaking the gender roles of that time. The hijra community, a recognised third gender in South Asia that is still present to this day and can be dated back over 2800 years. How is it that ancient civilisations that were so incredibly flawed could somehow be more progressive than most of the world today?
Some people are born with both female and male sex organs, These people classify as intersex. If this law is completely revolved around wombs, genitalia, and chromosomes what about people who are intersex? In what single sex bathroom should they be unwillingly shoved into, the bathroom of the gender they most identify with? or the bathroom an infinitesimal group of small minded adults claim they do. This discriminatory section to what's supposedly an equality act has only increased hostility within women’s bathrooms. I am someone who is considered to be largely androgynous in appearance, someone who generally chooses to use the gender neutral bathrooms whenever possible, but that choice has been taken away in a lot of public facilities. I am forced into women’s bathrooms against my will and yet I have been interrogated upon my entrance to a women’s bathroom about if I really belong there, or if I am a man sneaking in.
Do I deserve that? Do I deserve to be interrogated for having the audacity to not paint my chromosomes on my shirts and hoodies? Does anyone else?
This faux feminist organisation states they wish to protect women. Trans people are 4 times more likely to be a victim of violence such as rape, sexual assault, and a myriad other types of assault than people who are cisgender. Trans people also have a higher overall mortality rate primarily due to external causes such as suicide and murder. We are not the threat; We are the threatened. Sending transwomen into male public restrooms is like placing a red ‘X’ on their backs’. These small-minded transphobe’s speak about protecting women from rape, yet blatantly disregard the women they send like cannon fodder into areas where they will immediately be regarded as a target. And yet they call it Feminism. Feminism is not Feminism when it is not for all women.
To conclude, the transphobic rhetoric regarding the danger caused by use of gender affirming bathrooms by trans people is baseless. There is no substantial evidence corroborating the argument of this law change protecting women, in fact it actively endangers trans women. Not only are they kicking women out of the facilities they should have the right to use, they are also forcing in men who never wanted to be there in the first place. Trans people have been a part of humanity from the dawn of its existence and we do not deserve to be treated as if we are inhuman. This seemingly miniscule law change has had much larger ramifications than most people seem to have realised. Although to some it may seem like just a matter of switching bathrooms, it’s an attack on gender expression that has depressingly been successful. This leads me to wonder, what rights will be taken next?
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