You are using figures from 2010, Brian, which are drastically out of date. The 2011 census showed 2,706,066 Muslims in the UK, while more recent Pew research shows that the size of Muslim population in 2016 was 6.3% of the UK population (which was 65.348m in 2016) i.e. 4,116,924.
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Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and
The 2016 figure for Muslim women *alone* was therefore c. 2.06m. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/29/5-facts-about-the-muslim-population-in-europe/ … Given that the Muslim population will increase exponentially faster than other demographics, even with no further migration, and that a larger proportion of Muslim women on average
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Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and
are in the age band of higher fertility, 2.5m is not an unreasonable projection for 2019/20, which is when I would expect sex self-ID to take force. http://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/ … I’ve no idea why you’re mentioning Asian women in sport - perhaps in response to someone else’s comments?
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Replying to @MadamBiro @HiccupFrog and
Apologies so your figures are based on your projection of the female Muslim population when you estimate the GRA changes will come into force. And what public participation are they going to be prevented from entering into? And what assumptions are you making about Muslim women?
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Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and
Many muslim women take off their hijab in the mirror/washbasin area of female public toilets to tidy themselves up in the presence of other women. Making toilets mixed sex (gender-neutral) means they can no longer freely use these spaces.
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Replying to @Gender_Unicorn @MadamBiro and
There is nothing in the proposed changes to the GRA about public toilets or who can use them or changing them from single sex.
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Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and
However, mixed sex (gender neutral) toilets and spaces are popping up all over the place in anticipation of self-id. Many formerly women's only spaces are being renamed 'gender neutral' to accomodate everyone. Because women are so accomodating.
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Replying to @Gender_Unicorn @brianpaddick and
And there appears to be great confusion over who can and who can't use women's toilets, e.g. in this BBC article that last paragraph appear to me to be saying that this pub was acting illegally.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-39415622 …
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Replying to @Janice5e @Gender_Unicorn and
It is not against the law now for males to access female only spaces, only convention, common decency and common sense.
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Replying to @brianpaddick @Gender_Unicorn and
So legally, they are not single-sex?
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Correct. There is no statute law.
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