Liz Truss' plans to 'protect single sex spaces' simply means that she wants to ban trans people from using public bathrooms that correspond with who they are. She basically wants me, and others like me, to use the men's bathroom. Not only is this unrealistic, but dangerous.

Trans women, and trans people in general, have been using bathrooms which correspond with who they are for decades without issue. There is no real problem here. The problem is people whipping up fear about trans people and painting them as the threat they have never been.

How do they propose this works? Are they going to have someone checking the bathrooms, asking people for papers to prove that they're not trans? This won't only effect trans people, but anyone that doesn't fit into conservative and narrow ideas of what 'women and men look like'.

Are they going to start singling people out on masse? Allow people to harass those they don't think belong in a certain bathroom? Put up a scanning device at the entrance? Imprison people who 'break the law'? It's not going to work, because it doesn't make sense.

We've seen this before—in conservative USA. They have so called 'bathroom bills', which are meant to keep trans people out of public bathrooms. It's not about safety, it's about stigmatising and pushing trans people out of public life.

The argument is always that 'dangerous men' are going to 'abuse women and girls' if trans people are allowed to use the right bathroom. But there is nothing behind that, except fear. There is no evidence that shows a rise in abuse in bathrooms with advancement of trans rights.

If people don't know much about trans people, it's maybe not a surprise these discussions might concern you—because they are presented under the guise of fear and that we must 'protect' people. But there isn't anything to protect them from: trans people are people just like you.

Trans people in the UK have been using the right bathrooms for decades, and have legally been allowed to since 2010 according to the Equality Act. This has not caused a single issue due to trans people. There is no evidence that this is a threat whatsoever.

We can all hypothese about this as much as we want, but the evidence and facts do not lie. There is no reason for people to be concerned, and people need to start being critical to what they hear and where it's coming from. These motions are fundamentally anti-human rights.

If this were to happen, it would push the UK back decades and put the UK on a list with some of the most oppressive and anti-human right countries in this world. The consequences for trans people (and others) would be devestating. It will increase inequality exponationally.

These recent moves are little but a trojan horse; a new Section 28. Trans people deserve to be respected and recognised for who they are, both socially and legally. If these motions come to fruition, it would be a dark day in the history of the UK and LGBTI rights.