Letters to the Editor: Demonising trans women is a disservice to all women

Women, cisgendered and transgendered, have suffered, and continue to suffer, at the hands of predatory men 

British-Australian actress Miriam Margolyes made provocative comments in a recent Irish Examiner interview.

When interviewed recently by reporter Jennifer McShane, actress Miriam Margolyes suggested that trans women should have to “cut off their cocks” before being allowed to use women’s toilets — Miriam Margolyes on her love for Graham Norton, life at 80 and her thoughts on JK Rowling (Irish Examiner, September 25).

This is wrong on so many levels that if I tried to address them all the resulting essay would be far too long for the letters page of the Irish Examiner. I will try to focus on just two points.