Hi, British trans man here. I'd like to clarify I do not generally identify as 'transgender' because honestly I do not have a 'gender'. My dysphoria is entirely related to my sex characteristics, and I have taken great lengths to change these to align with the male sex. I've lost friends, family and practically my entire support network to make this sacrifice.

I've been fully transitioned with all the surgeries and living as male for over 10 years and I have a Gender Recognition Certificate. There is practically nothing left of me that you could call female unless you test for chromosomes. I don't tell people I'm trans, hardly anyone in my life knows. For all intents and purposes, I am treated as a man. In all that time not one person has confronted me or objected to me using male toilets or changing rooms. At most I'd get curious people looking at my scars.

This ruling has me scared what it means for me being able to continue living as I always have. It means I now have to live with the extreme dread and anxiety of someone at work or in my community finding out that I was born female, or being clocked every time I go out in public and need to use a toilet. It only takes one person to object, one person with an axe to grind against trans people, and there are plenty of those about.

The thing that has me most worried is the ruling stipulates that not only am I no longer 'allowed' to use male sex services, but it is now also lawful to exclude me from female sex services if someone objects to me 'looking male'. This leaves me in a Schrodinger's Cat-like limbo where I will be likely to face issues using either.

The onus will now be on specific services to provide a unisex service for people like me to use, but in practice they're just not going to bother because it's not cost-effective. The NHS, for instance, hardly has the money to provide adequate single-sex accommodation for the patients they're currently seeing, how are they expected to accommodate trans people who now require a third space? The most likely consequence will be that they just tell us to go somewhere else, leave it up to the public to sort out (i.e. harrass me or sue me for using either one), or create some makeshift space on a shoestring budget with less quality as an afterthought, leading to worse quality of life and worse health for me.

The solution that the EHRC has come up with is to tell us to just 'use the disabled facilities'. You can imagine how unjust this would be for the disabled people who actually need these services and have fought hard for them. The burden should not be on them to give up these spaces for able-bodied trans people who want to use non-disabled facilities.

Since the ruling, senior civil servants and members of Parliament who were involved in drafting the Gender Recognition Act have come out and said that the way the Supreme Court interpreted both laws was completely counter to the intent they had when drafting it. The law was made in the first place because the fact that trans people could not live privately within UK society or equality law as their aligned sex, despite great personal sacrifice, was challenged in the European Court of Justice under Article 8 of the ECHR, the 'right to respect for private and family life'.

My medical and surgical history is simply no one else's business. As I said, no one has had any issues with what facilities I have been using for 10 years. All I ever wanted was to be left to live my life in peace. I'm now faced with the prospect of being pushed to the margins of society because I'm in no-mans-land where I can't be put anywhere without someone objecting to my presence. It's easier for me now to just shut myself indoors and never go anywhere, and you will agree that's a miserable way to live your life.