Pregnant woman wearing 'baby on board' badge asked to prove pregnancy

A woman called Raayan Zafar said she was left 'really really embarrassed' after she was asked to prove that she was pregnant for a seat on the tube. 

The man, said to be look in his 40s, reportedly confronted Ms Zafar after another man gave up his priority seat for her.

She said: “I got on the Victoria line from Stockwell and requested the priority seat. The man sitting there was a gentleman and gave me his seat, but then a lady who was already standing in front of him tried to take the seat, so I made her notice me by saying ‘excuse me’.

“That lady realised I was going for the seat, but the person sitting beside it started arguing with me, saying the lady wanted to sit there and asking: ‘Why are you taking the seat?’

“I showed him my ‘baby on board’ badge and he then rudely asked me: ‘Where is the baby?’

“I was shocked – is that the way to speak to a pregnant lady? Do I have to carry my maternity notes with me all the time?”

It's a sad state of affairs when women need to require a 'baby on board' badge in order to be offered a seat on a packed tube.

In my opinion regardless if she was pregnant or not she should get a seat right?

It was just yesterday that I witnessed an older women walk into a restaurant and not one of the men at the table got up to offer her a seat and a younger women gave up her chair, what is going on? 

Is the art of being a gentlemen dying a slow death?