Are women’s libraries still a safe space for women?

When is a women’s library not a women’s library? When the wrong sort of women try to use it. That seems to be the problem with Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) which accepted then cancelled a booking from a feminist group, which it now claims does not meet its ‘values’. What kind of feminist organisation wouldn’t meet the values of a women’s library? You can probably guess where this is going. For Women Scotland isn’t just any feminist group; it’s a Bad Feminist group, one of those feminist groups that says women share a sex, not a ‘gender identity’, and questions proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act to abandon medically-supported gender transition in favour of self-identification.

For Women booked a space at GWL to discuss these matters on Friday, only for the library to cancel citing closure for repairs. However on Twitter, the hashtag-pronged pitchfork of the modern mob, GWL was interrogated about accepting a booking from a Bad Feminist group.