Sacked doctor sues former employer for refusing to call trans-woman "she"

I’m not commenting on whether your claims are true or untrue, I’m commenting on whether or not I’d be willing to bet that people could tell the difference, when I know that there are people who can’t, and I know that of those people, there are a minority who would act on their perception that the person is not a woman, and I know that in those cases where they accost another member of the public, it can lead to innocent people being harmed by an utter nut job.

If I’d wanted to be deliberately obtuse, I’d have reminded you of my username in combination with the fact that on rare occasions I have only found out I was in the women’s bathrooms when a woman emerged from one of the stalls while I was washing my hands.

Any suggestion for names?

Phani 😁

This site suggests it’s 100% a girls name.

https://www.popular-babynames.com/name/phani

I know at least one Phani who isn’t a girl! 🤔

No, I wasn’t being deliberately obtuse. You were asking did the poster have difficulty differentiating between the sexes, and suggested that a trip to specsavers might help.

The question wasn’t directed at me, but I know of a few people who couldn’t tell the difference, and I’ve read of people who take it upon themselves to protect people by assaulting innocent members of the public.

While you may well be right that 99.99999% of people can tell the difference, I’d be concerned about the consequences for members of the public of people who couldn’t tell the difference imagining that they’re protecting the public from being endangered by the presence of a man in womens spaces.

Context, as well as intent, and giving people the benefit of the doubt, is what matters if you had any interest in being fair, or expecting that people should be fair to you when you hadn’t intended them to take your opinion seriously in the first place.

It’s different from the trolley problem in that the trolley problem is a hypothetical thought experiment, whereas the consequences of bathroom hysteria are quite real:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/5/18/11690234/women-bathrooms-harassment

You could easily portray the subject of this particular discussion as similar to the trolley problem, as the OP tried to do, but in reality each case is determined on it’s own merits, and thankfully ‘bathroom laws’ in any case don’t exist either in Ireland or the UK, and there are only a tiny number of people arguing for their introduction, at the expense of having a disproportionate effect on the right of people who are transgender to use the bathroom they are most comfortable using. Everyone in Irish society at least has that freedom.

It’s disingenuous to make claims about wanting to protect women by restricting access to women’s spaces, and then try to claim that women are responsible for women having more rights than men and all the usual farting noises that are made whenever it suits a small number of posters to portray themselves as victims and society doesn’t care about men and using suicide rates and rates of being the victims of violence among men and boys to make their points.

It’s patently obvious they don’t care about either men or women, they only want to restrict peoples freedoms by pitting groups of people against each other while they sit back and do nothing only play the victim when it might look like people are being regarded as being of equal status in law to them. That’s the whole point of why we have laws that don’t permit anyone to take the law into their own hands - it’s both to protect the public, and to protect those people from themselves.

Reductive is something I’m rarely accused of being, but on this occasion I’ll take it 😁

Yes it is reductive, I do like to keep things simple as opposed to inventing issues where there aren’t any.