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The last five years have seen an aggressive campaign to get rid of sex-segregated spaces and services, through the introduction of gender neutral spaces, or opening up female spaces to any man who identifies as a woman.
@stonewalluk has been particularly aggressive, through a campaign of disinformation on the content of the EA, claiming it already prohibits sex exemptions, coupled with lobbying to get rid of sex exemptions in the EA.
You would think this campaign would be informed by data proving that sex segregation is useless and that women and girls are not under an increased risk in gender neutral spaces. What follows is the reality.
Unisex changing rooms increase the risk of sexual assault. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/sexual-assault-unisex-changing-rooms-sunday-times-women-risk-a8519086.html
Women are vulnerable to sexual assault in mixed sex wards in NHS hospitals. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-sexual-assault-patients-mental-health-mixed-sex-wards-a9273656.html
Sexual assaults in schools on the rise. Maybe because girls have lost female only spaces? https://www.educationdive.com/news/reports-of-sexual-assault-at-schools-on-the-rise-but-the-reasons-are-uncle/560112/
Rising levels of sexual assaults in universities. https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/university-news/nus-reveals-shocking-scale-sexual-violence-uk-universities
Transwomen assault female prisoners after being allowed in female estates. Exposing prisoners to the risk of sexual assault has been found to be inhuman and degrading treatment, and even torture, by ECtHR. Why are transwomen exempt? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/seven-sex-attacks-in-womens-jails-by-transgender-convicts-cx9m8zqpg
Conviction rates for rape are shamefully low in the UK. Does it seem rational to increase the risk of rape for women by eliminating all female only spaces and services? https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/about-sexual-violence/statistics-sexual-violence/
Sexual offences by paedophiles are on the rise. Do we really want to allow them in female changing rooms and toilets, by making them gender neutral? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/paedophile-uk-arrest-child-sex-abuse-police-internet-a9396661.html
Women and girls in the UK are under assault in schools, universities, hospitals, changing rooms, toilets, prisons. Campaigning for eliminating spaces and services where our safety, dignity and privacy are preserved is *criminal*.
