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How do I help my friend? (SC ruling related)

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CanYouTurnItDown · 19/04/2025 16:20

AIBU to blatantly misuse AIBU to ask, how do we stop the insanity arising from the SC ruling.

Sensibly applied it means that those men who have misused the legislation (if that’s the right word) around self ID to have access to vulnerable women can no longer do that, and that crime statistics are going to be more representative, but the reality is that now women who don’t fit the cliched version of a woman are being challenged and kicked out of ladies toilets and changing rooms.

Why is it that my friend who has never hurt anyone has been challenged today, after years of dealing with the stigma around being a gay, non feminine woman, who thought the world was changing, now has to go through this shit again.

It’s so hard, something needed to change, but that change is damaging so many people.

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ShinySunshine · 19/04/2025 16:49

Youcancallmeirrelevant · 19/04/2025 16:45

I agree. Women spaces are for biological females. Trans women have no right to be in women spaces, as this poster said they need to be fighting for their own spaces and not taking women's spaces

OP is talking about a biological female!

ShinySunshine · 19/04/2025 16:48

Hdjdb42 · 19/04/2025 16:42

I disagree with your statement, trans women do not have every right to invade women's spaces! I'm glad the court made this ruling. The Trans movement need to protest for their own spaces, not invade the womens.

OP is talking about a biological woman who is being mistaken for a transperson when she is not one.

Youcancallmeirrelevant · 19/04/2025 16:45

Hdjdb42 · 19/04/2025 16:42

I disagree with your statement, trans women do not have every right to invade women's spaces! I'm glad the court made this ruling. The Trans movement need to protest for their own spaces, not invade the womens.

I agree. Women spaces are for biological females. Trans women have no right to be in women spaces, as this poster said they need to be fighting for their own spaces and not taking women's spaces

Hdjdb42 · 19/04/2025 16:42

I disagree with your statement, trans women do not have every right to invade women's spaces! I'm glad the court made this ruling. The Trans movement need to protest for their own spaces, not invade the womens.

CanYouTurnItDown · 19/04/2025 16:31

I totally agree with that, something needed to change. The situation was unacceptable.

I just don’t know how to navigate what comes next for these women who are now being shut out of places that they have every right to be

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crankycurmudgeon · 19/04/2025 16:27

It is problematic that policing of single sex spaces is left to a form of 'self ID' based on the perceptions of those informally policing these spaces. No easy answer unless everyone carries an ID card which had their biological sex indicated. There have always been people who without any direct intention are either androgynous, or can pass as the opposite sex, and a heightened policing of single sex spaces will inevitably make life harder for such people. While I agree with the SC judgment in its insistence on a biological definition of sex, it is clear that there are practical difficulties whichever side of the line this had been decided. It was also totally untenable for the Darlington nurses to have to be naked in front of a pot-bellied man with long lank hair and intact male genitalia ogling them while they did so...