JK Rowling has once again sparked widespread discussion with a cutting critique on gender identity policies and their perceived clash with safeguarding women and girls. Taking to social media, the celebrated author highlighted what she sees as glaring inconsistencies within progressive circles, particularly those who championed the #MeToo movement’s focus on male sexual predation but now support policies she believes endanger vulnerable spaces.
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Rowling wrote in her post,” Quite an interesting thing to watch people who were eager to hitch their wagons to# MeToo a few years ago defend this kind of thing,” is n’t it? Finally: ‘ male sexual predation is far more common than community admits!’ Today:’ of course unusual men should be able to shower with small girls.'”
Rowling shared a link from Reduxx Mag, in which a French woman claimed that one of her daughters had encountered a person in a public pool’s sexual bathroom. Angie Tyrrell, a mother from Saanich, British Columbia, who reported the incident at a common share. On July 5, Tyrrell’s 10-year-old girl and her mother’s 11-year-old friend encountered a person in the children’s changing space at the Commonwealth Place entertainment facility. The man was sporting a bright, shiny bikini adorned with brooches and frills, and was described as toned and had a hairy chest and back.
The women, clearly unhappy, reported the position to Tyrrell, who instructed them to change in toilet kiosks to avoid publicity. Eventually, Tyrrell observed a visibly uncomfortable environment for other women and girls in the changing region, with one adolescent girl scurrying to a kiosk after spotting the guy. Tyrrell informed the employees of the event, but the tragedy was later resolved by the facility, which stressed its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The service adhered to the British Columbia Human Rights Code, which permits people to use designated areas for their gender identity, according to later correspondence with swimming control. Management suggested that those who were n’t comfortable with the policy could instead use public or private changing facilities despite Tyrrell’s objections.
Tyrrell questioned why women and girls should change how they act in places that were previously reserved for women. Since then, she has avoided using public facilities in Saanich because her concerns about safety and privacy have been ignored.
The controversy mirrors similar incidents, such as one in Nanaimo, BC, where a mother reported a man allegedly peering under a stall occupied by her daughter. The facility reportedly threatened the mother with police action in that situation because the mother had protested the man’s presence.
