To want a female only dorm in a bunkhouse?

Or carry your tent

I think you will find that YHA offer single GENDER accommodation, and despite having the ridiculousness of this explained to them, refused to back down.

admittedly, I haven’t checked recently as I simply stopped using them, and have never gone back.

Ask them if you can camp in the grounds? Will be a pain carrying the gear but you could courier it ahead.

I have never known a "bunk house" to have separate male & female accommodation

By nature of the name of "bunk house" it means everyone in together

If you want female only accommodation, suggest book a pod or a B&B

Or look at youth hostel

The Equality Act still applies in Scotland doesn't it?

OP ute that at them.

Scotland is an example of how truly bonkers the Leftists will get if allowed. Makes you worry about letting Labour in. However, to get this country back on track The Fake Tories must be destroyed so we will have to suffer Labour for a while at least.

My DH would hate to share with a random female

Two strangers in a room should be same sex

Eventually, if enough people vote with their feet, suppliers will have to provide what customers want

OP said hotel rooms were available but she couldn't afford to stay in hotel

What about a man who has his life destroyed by a fake rape accuser then? But this could run on and on, so…

Just because it’s MN, doesn’t mean I have to toe the party line if I don’t agree with what I consider transphobic comments being made. Or discrimination against men. Or frankly, hysteria. This is my space too, it’s not limited to group thinkers as far as I’m aware.

Anyway, I suggest people have a look at the Facebook page previously mentioned. Context being everything etc etc… may help with perspective. They’re just hikers, wanting a happy time. And the person who posted on there also asked the bunkhouse for the name of the roomie, which I can understand raising data issues.

As you were.

Yes they're male.
100% of "transwomen" are male.

But this is mumsnet, where women are speaking in a safe space about their fears and experiences. Don't come with the whole "not all men are sex offenders" rubbish; we know they aren't, we just don't know which ones are. As for the comparison of women might be thieves, I would much rather be a man who had his wallet stolen than a woman who had been raped.

Could you walk to Kingshouse as planned and pre book a taxi to take you to glencoe or ballachullish?

But you’re discriminating against men. By saying they are all a risk to women.

But they’re not though, are they? Or we’d hear about it.

If I were a man some of these comments would offend me immensely- why are posters assuming all men are sex attackers? What if we went down the line of assuming all women are thieves and after their wallets?

As for the previous description of a trans woman being six feet tall with a bad wig and talking periods… sheeesh!! I hope that’s not the general MN definition or I’m in the wrong company.

That's all very well but as women are at more risk of rape than men and single sex spaces are a deterrent to rape, there's a case here that their policy illegally discriminates against women.

Bars used to make it difficult and uncomfortable for women in the olden days - laws against discrimination were used thfn too

I was just thinking that. As you age, you usually gain more confidence with your life experience. A younger person is far less confident, less experienced and potentially more vulnerable to exploitation.

I wonder if this bunkhouse would rethink its policies if teenage girls were regularly raped on the premises by middle-aged men?

I love the comment that you could book a hotel room, but choose not to!!!

Some of us just don’t have the funds !!!

That's not to say you won't have problems this time. Especially as you have no idea who you'll bunk with. No safeguarding? No single women should be sharing with men under any guise then.

IMHO this kind of setup is a bad 'uns wet dream.

Yes, I'm a pessimist but I'm also under no illusions that there are a lot of bad blokes out there. I've unfortunately come across a few and learned my lesson very well.

I was thinking take your sleeping bag, and lock yourself in a bathroom overnight, at least you will be indoors. What a ridiculous situation.
Its so unsafe.
im so sorry you are in this ridiculous situation, how unsafe life already is, and now getting worse for women.
I’ve bought my girls a door wedge for when they were in student accomodation, im still thinking of the bathroom ..Of course it depends how clean everything is too 😫

Can a petition be treated to stop this lunacy. To protect women generally?

This.

Cancel the whole thing and walk elsewhere.

A transwoman is man and therefore should share with men.

But what if the other person identifies as a woman and so they tell you its a woman. Then when you turn up its a 6' bloke in a bad wig who wants to talk about periods.

Yes

I wouldn’t want to share with anyone I don’t know (or many that I do), irrespective of gender. So I don’t, personally.

I think you’d be more vulnerable in a tent though?