Much kudos and respect needs to be given to the Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire Mr Phillip Wilkinson for his decision to reiterate his view that women must not fear men coming into their private spaces. Mr Wilkinson defended his force’s decision to distance themselves from Stonewall, the former LBG rights but now promoter of extremist gender ideology organisation.

Mr Wilkinson quite rightly said he respected the rights of the LGB and transsexual members of his force but also rightly in my view criticised the concept of self identification of gender, something that is being heavily pushed by Stonewall. It seems to me that with the comments of Mr Wilkinson which criticise Stonewall and the decision being made to distance Wiltshire Police from Stonewall’s ‘Diversity Champions’ scheme, we are seeing the adults entering the room and taking charge.

Reporting this story the BBC said:

A police and crime commissioner has reiterated comments about how trans women should not be allowed to use some women-only spaces.

Wiltshire PCC Philip Wilkinson said there had been “much debate” since he criticised the policies of charity Stonewall.

Being trans is a protected characteristic in law, meaning people cannot be discriminated against.

Stonewall said there was no evidence that inclusion compromised safety.

I believe that no sensible and humane person would have any real objections to post operative transsexuals, who make up a tiny minority of those loud activists who call themselves ‘trans’ be treated as the gender that they present or want to see such people discriminated against. However self ID is highly dangerous. Self ID would allow a man to suddenly decide to call themselves a woman on one day and therefore enter women’s protected spaces without any surgery, any hormone treatment and without any requirement to be diagnosed with a gender identity problem by a qualified medical practitioner.

Stonewall’s claim that ‘there’s no evidence that inclusion compromised safety’ is complete and utter rot. Of course allowing men, intact men who’ve only that day decided to call themselves ‘trans’ to enter women’s lavatories, changing rooms, domestic violence refuges or rape crisis centres is going to make women more unsafe, these services are sex segregated for solid and very well understood reasons. By all means offer services that cater for trans people or those who claim to be trans to help them with domestic violence or sexual assault, but these services should not be provided at the expense of women, their rights or the services provided for women.

Wiltshire Police have done the morally and practically correct thing in standing up to Stonewall and their ludicrous and damaging self ID policy. Well done to Wiltshire Police I say.