[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

The system should not be setup to allow those vulnerable people to be at the mercy of someone pretending to be something they are not, in order to take advantage.

It's an imagined risk, the idea that hordes of male predators will be declaring themselves women in order to get onto a female hospital ward and prey on sick people is panic-logic. And if that did happen and those patients would be at risk, then the problem is much bigger than who is and isn't admitted to each ward, as visiting hours are near unlimited these days and so people who want to prey on people in hospital can literally just walk in off the street. Wards are busy and full of patients, staff and visitors and should be safe for everyone. If they're not then there's a much bigger security issue than "covert perverts" pretending to be women .

It's the exact same panic-logic that applies to the female bathroom debate. "If men can self ID as women then they will be able to walk into female public bathrooms and attack people!" ... as though there's currently a mystical forcefield that keeps penises out of women's bathrooms. Not to scare everyone but hey... guess what... if an attacker wants to get you in a women's bathroom right now, he can just walk right in. He doesn't need to declare "I am a woman" to the door to make it open. Unbelievable, isn't it?