Allowing trans people to more easily update the gender on their birth certificates has zero impact on me as a cisgender woman - but it makes a world of difference to a marginalised community who face daily discrimination and harassment in just trying to live their lives.

I understand why the discussion around single-sex spaces feels scary to some cisgender women: it& #39;s cos it& #39;s been made to seem really, really scary. We talk as though transgender women who might be predators - a tiny %, itself within a minority group - represent the whole.

But let& #39;s be real: why would you have to obtain a gender recognition certificate *before* becoming a predator? The majority of sexual abusers are cisgender people, because it& #39;s not as if being trans unlocks a magic key to a world of abuse you& #39;d otherwise have no access to.

It used to be the case (and in some places, still is) that gay people were demonised on the basis that they might use single-sex spaces like toilets and changing rooms as opportunities to abuse other people.

And this narrative was used as a pretext to justify harass, intimidate and even beat up people who were perceived to be gay in those kinds of spaces. Coding LGBT people as predatory has been a key part of violently excluding them from public space.