Non-feminine women say there's an "escalation" of harassment for using the women's restroomhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/non-feminine-women-say-theres-an-escalation-of-for-using-the-womens-restroom/John Russell (12 Aug 2025)
Gender nonconforming cis women in the U.K. are reporting increased incidents of having their presence in women's bathrooms and changing rooms challenged since the country's anti-trans Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.
"If you're masculine-presenting or butch lesbian, women's toilets are not a safe space. I've been spat on, screamed at and it's just so sad that this looks likely to get worse," one woman told the Guardian. "The looks of hate, the feeling that you just don't know if you're going to be safe, have really got worse since the ruling, to the extent I now either ask a friend to come in with me or use the disabled toilet, which I feel bad about because it's preventing them from accessing it."
Caz Coronel, a composer and producer, said she was recently confronted while waiting in line for the women's restroom at a concert venue by a man who insisted she belonged in the line for the men's room. He kept harassing her about waiting for the women's room until she told him, "Do you want to see my tits?"
"I have short hair and don't mind if people think I look male. I've often been called 'Sir', but when they see my face, they either apologize or ask me politely what I like to be called. But I've never had anyone approach me before in such a publicly aggressive way," she said. "What then flashed through my mind was: Is this what this ruling has done?"
