8. Women’s Right to Privacy, and to Safe and Sanitary Spaces. Women and Children's Psychological Protection and Well-Being
Kara Dansky
“…committed to protecting the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls on the basis of sex in law and throughout society.”
https://www.karadansky.com/read
No Conflict, They Said
“We're worried about the impacts on women of men using women-only spaces, including but not limited to: changing rooms, fitting rooms, bathrooms, shelters, rape and domestic violence refuges, gyms, spas, sports, schools, accommodations, hospital wards, shortlists, prizes, quotas, political groups, prisons, clubs, events, festivals, dating apps, and language. If we can't collect data, we can at least collect stories. Please tell us how your use of women-only spaces has been impacted.”
https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter
“Our services are available to all women who have experienced male violence including wife battering, incest, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and prostitution… developed for women by women…”
https://rapereliefshelter.bc.ca
Woman’s Place UK “Violence against women and sex discrimination still exist. Women need reserved places, separate spaces and distinct services.”
https://womansplaceuk.org/
https://www.facebook.com/womansplaceuk
What would happen if one women told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
― Muriel Rukheyser
A. “Protecting men at the women’s shelter.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/x8VC8
Anonymous. “Gender neutral toilets don’t work for women.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/1LMXT
Mia Ashton. “Ottawa father thrown out of school board meeting after questioning policy allowing biological males to use girls’ washrooms.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/yFg9w
Associated Press. “Federal appeals court rules against transgender man in bathroom case: A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida school district’s policy of separating school bathrooms based on biological sex is constitutional.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/DwzQQ
Julie Bindel. “The thing that never happens happened again.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/2R5FG
Jocelyn Crawley. “‘Female Erasure’ sheds light on contemporary misogyny and the value of women-only space.” [2017]
https://archive.ph/wip/Senyb
Matt Dathan. “Ministers to have veto on where trans prisoners serve sentences.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/pgfzc#selection-811.0-822.0
Paul Dirks. “Gender-Inclusion policies and sexual violence: A longitudinal analysis of media reports at Target stores.” [2018] PDF FILE
tiny.cc/r8h4vz
Claudia Elphick. “The history of women’s public toilets in Britain.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/wip/1imUm
M.K. Fain. “Madison elementary school teacher fights for right to use student girls bathroom.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/AQrXL
Omari Fleming. “Teen's interaction with transgender woman in YMCA locker room sparks heated debate.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/67xFq
Hadley Freeman. “Why I’m suing Survivors’ Network: Rape victims need female-only spaces.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/rrePS
John Glover. “Ayrshire college beauty students asked to strip in front of transgender rapist Isla Bryson after horror sex attacks: Horrified female students say they feel 'violated' after getting naked for spray tan sessions in front of Isla Bryson, 31, while unaware he was awaiting trial for raping two vulnerable women.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/4IlKx#selection-565.0-565.115
Lynn Goldstein and Marty Abrams. “The overturning of Roe v. Wade undermines the right to privacy.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/R14OX
Genevieve Gluck. “Transgender male at center of YMCA locker room controversy shared disturbing images of young girls.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/8fqDE
Chris Isidore. “Target's $20 million answer to transgender bathroom boycott.” [2016]
tiny.cc/l4h4vz
Sheila Jeffreys. "The politics of the toilet: A feminist response to the campaign to ‘degender’ a women's space." [2014]
https://objectnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/toiletsarticle.pdf
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
― Audre Lorde
Laura Kamienski. “For us: In defense of women’s only spaces.”
https://archive.ph/U0WXL, or
https://www.academia.edu/9374766/For_Us_In_Defense_of_Womens_Only_Space…;
June Kelly. “Woman suing rape charity over transgender row.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/0b4V
Morgan Laird. “What’s current: Campaigners in Ottawa protest the transfer of male offenders to women’s prisons” [2022]
https://archive.ph/6umtp
https://twitter.com/esme_saysno/status/1535715739834925063
Sanchez Manning, Molly Clayton and Sophic MacDonald. “Stop making women share changing rooms with men': Feminist campaigners demand change amid growing reports of traumatic encounters at stores from Primark to M&S.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/Bxrow
Ritwika Mitra. “100 Women: How the 'urinary leash' keeps women at home.” [2017]
https://archive.ph/iQBCO#selection-1185.0-1185.54
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-41999792
Stacy Morford. “Privacy isn’t in the Constitution – but it’s everywhere in constitutional law.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/Sz1Gu
Meghan Murphy. “Discontinuation of grant to Vancouver Rape Relief shows trans activism is an attack on women.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/S233x
Hayley Peterson. “Outraged shoppers threaten to boycott Target after a man exposes himself to a young girl in a store's bathroom.” [2018]
tiny.cc/j5h4vz
Reduxx Team. “‘Trans-Muslima’ profiled in German news after accusing domestic violence shelter of transphobia.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/v0Yvn
Abigail Shrier. “Male inmates in women’s prisons: If Congress passes the Equality Act, California’s dangerous policy would go nationwide.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/zItlp
Anna Slatz. “Women being ‘punished’ for complaining about male transfers: Inmate in California women’s prison.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/7kf5c
Sonia Sodha. "How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?: New healthcare guidance could deny female patients their legitimate rights. It should be withdrawn.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/5A6Lc
The Sunday Times. [UK] “Trans prisoners ‘switch gender again’ once freed from women’s units.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/K9r07
Sister Toldjah. “Elizabeth Warren: Transgender ‘women’ should be incarcerated in female prisons. [2020]
https://archive.ph/lMZSP
David Walker. “Anger as trans inmates revert to males when they leave Scottish prisons: Concern after new research suggested that men who changed their gender to female in jail are switching back to their birth gender after release.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/sZwWa
Ashleigh Webber. “Inadequate toilets for women was sex discrimination, finds EAT [Employment Appeal Tribunal].” [2023, UK]
https://archive.ph/CAoHK
Womans Place UK. “WPUK manifesto 2019.”
https://womansplaceuk.org/wpuk-manifesto-2019/
Women’s Rights Network. “Thousands of rapes and sexual assaults in UK hospitals—Only 4.1 per cent of suspects known to have been charged. ” (UK) [2023]
https://archive.ph/ifLZB
The World Bank. “Menstural health and hygiene.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/VZLUe
Shay Woulahan. “UK: Teen girl hospitalized after being attacked in unisex school bathroom.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/suIrW
Jack Wright. “Women's campaigner 'was sacked by Sadiq Khan's administration after expressing concerns about trans women being allowed into refuges for rape victims.'” [2021]
https://archive.ph/jMebY
Edie Wyatt. "Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement?” [2021]
https://archive.ph/Yxhp8
He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments
Good Morning Britain. “Is it time to ditch gender-neutral toilets? Concerns about women's safety sparks debate.” [2022] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H4j1mrRLVM
Meghan Murphy. “Title IX, trans rights, women’s rights, and ‘bathroom bills’.” [2016] PODCAST
https://archive.ph/wip/OrMIS
Freedom is to live with dignity.
― Manal al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening