It seems obvious that women should be allowed to have their own sleeping, changing, and personal hygiene (e.g., showers) areas to themselves. Throughout most of human history, that's how civilized people have done things in public places. Only a few short years ago, any man who attempted to invade a woman's locker room, shower, restroom, or any other such area would have faced arrest, at least, and maybe a good thumping by any nearby husbands/fathers/brothers of any women in those spaces at the time.
These days, in all too many places, in Europe and in blue states here in our own country, these men won't be arrested anymore. Indeed, in the United Kingdom, it may well be the women who face repercussions should they object.
That's what's happening to a group of nurses working for the British National Health Service, who had the gall to object to a man being in their changing room. Now they face a misconduct investigation.
NHS nurses who complained about sharing the same changing room as their transgender colleague could face a misconduct probe.
Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy and Tracey Hooper, who all work at the Darlington Memorial Hospital, could be dragged through a disciplinary process after speaking publicly about being forced to undress in front of Rose Henderson, who was born male.
Rose Henderson identifies as female but has not undergone any physical or hormonal transition.
In other words, "Rose" Henderson is a man. He can identify as the aircraft carrier "Nimitz" for all that it matters; he was born a man, he is a man now, and he has not even made any medical or surgical attempt to appear as anything other than a man. He is a man. He will always be a man. To suggest anything else is to radically depart from the truth.
And yet, that's what the NHS expects these nurses to do. Or else.
The nurses have filed a legal case suing their employer, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, for sexual harassment and discrimination.
They claimed they were told to “broaden their mindset”, “be more inclusive” and undergo “re-education” when they repeatedly raised concerns with NHS managers.
Their high-profile employment tribunal will be heard later this month. But the nurses now face professional misconduct investigations after four complaints were made by members of the public to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
This isn't the first such case to come out of the United Kingdom. One case even involved midwives; as I wrote at the time:
One would think that, if one had a person laying on a table, giving birth - actually giving birth to an actual baby - that it would be safe to refer to said person, having said baby, as "her." One would also think that, if examining a patient, that patient has a thick beard, a deep voice, and (as the Brits say) a "twig and berries," that this person may be referred to as "he." Or at least one would think it is safe to record "female" or "male" on that patient's chart. This is important in the delivery of health care, as the treatment provided to the patient can be affected.
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And there have been claims of harassment, by men cosplaying as women, invading women's changing rooms and other spaces that should be, by rights, restricted to women. Not "transgender women" - men - but women. Adult females of the species Homo sapiens with the XX chromosome set.
Read More: UK Nurses Suing NHS Over 'Transgender' Colleague Harassing Them in Women's Changing Room
In this latest case, the nurses in question are making a good claim for unlawful victimization - and they have some help, from the UK's "shadow secretary of state for women and equalities." That person, one Claire Coutinho, remarked that these four nurses should not be "dragged through another vexatious disciplinary process" just for objecting to one of the core tenets of the far left - the notion that a man can just claim to be a woman, and intrude on women's spaces.
These nurses, as nurses should, understand the biology of human beings. They understand that humans are sexually bipolar: Male and female. They understand that sex is determined at conception, as either XY (male) or XX (female), barring some extremely rare polyploidies of the sex chromosomes. They also understand that their locker rooms, bathrooms, showers, and so on, should be safe from intrusion from men, whether or not they retain their issued wedding tackle.
Nurses and other medical practitioners do understand these things. They have to. Their jobs depend on a strict assessment of their patients, based on nothing more than reality. No matter how a patient may "identify," a nurse, a doctor, or any other practitioner has to know what parts they have. Any mix-up could be fatal.
All this just makes the entire changing room issue even more ridiculous.
That's why I repeat, over and over, this caution: Watch the United Kingdom. Watch Europe. Watch the details as this ridiculousness unfolds, because the American left, our own homegrown kooks, would like nothing better than to try this here. Remember that - especially when you go to vote.
