A reminder that toilets in the UK are NOT single-sex spaces whatever Falkner wants you to believe.

Many of us have been caught desperately short in a long queue at the Women's in a nightclub and run into the entirely empty Men's. It's accepted practice. That would be illegal if they were single-sex spaces.

Taking your child of a different sex into the loos to wee in a cubicle because you can't send a toddler in alone, illegal.

You get the picture.

Putting the Gents and Ladies signs up is a suggestion for the purposes of societal norms. It doesn't create a single-sex space for the purposes of the Equality Act. It *could* potentially, but it overwhelmingly doesn't. This is what Sumption was saying, though he hinted he thought that could change.

If Falkner has her way, it will. Enjoy wetting yourselves when you're out clubbing ladies, and don't try to take your male baby into the Ladies anywhere lest you suffer the wrath of the Gender Police

You know the worst thing about today's ruling? It doesn't take into account the primal, overwhelming power of - and I'm going to use the old term - gender dysphoria.

Most cis folk haven't experienced it, though many cis queer peeps know what I mean from a different context. The compulsion to live free or die. I wouldn't be alive now if I hadn't transitioned.

The lucky ones transition before they get there but the rest of us hit a point in our lives where it's transition or die and that's not hyperbole. I always wanted to see a world where transition happened for all before that point, because I barely made it through. That hope is pretty much gone.

Call us mentally-ill if you like. I don't care. I live, or I don't. For the sake of preventing some vile people feeling a bit uncomfortable, you've put our lives in real danger, judges of the Supreme Court.

You're disgusting bigots and any remaining respect I once had for the law has gone. We're outlaws again.

Please boost this unless you don't give a shit.