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Turns out Hampstead swimming ponds are single SEX after all ...

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PencilsInSpace · 28/05/2018 16:47

... at least the men's pond is Hmm

Well done to the fabulous #ManFriday gents for exposing this rank hypocricy! Splendid work, chaps Flowers

Turns out Hampstead swimming ponds are single SEX after all ...
Turns out Hampstead swimming ponds are single SEX after all ...
Turns out Hampstead swimming ponds are single SEX after all ...
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Waddlelikeapenguin · 28/05/2018 20:19
Grin
LangCleg · 28/05/2018 20:18

I’ll email the City of London Corporation tomorrow to check whether I’m still allowed to use the Ladies Pond on Wednesdays, but I rather suspect that after today, the response will be a politer version of “Just fk the fg f*y fk off!”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

IAmDavidLewis · 28/05/2018 20:16

Well played, you fabulous ManFriday gents! I hope this gets the media coverage you’ve earned, especially with the obvious double-standard. I’ll email the City of London Corporation tomorrow to check whether I’m still allowed to use the Ladies Pond on Wednesdays, but I rather suspect that after today, the response will be a politer version of “Just fk the fg f**y f*k off!”

Dinosaurchicken · 28/05/2018 20:06

I don’t believe any of the ManFriday people were the ones who phoned the police.

daimbars · 28/05/2018 20:04

So you wasted police time to prove a point? Time they could be spent helping women or girls in need?
Dubious.

pombear · 28/05/2018 19:37

(ignoring Nicholas)

Woah! Hang on.

So according to the January article, everyone working at the pond is well-versed in trans issues and trained, so trans-identifying men who would like to swim in the female pond are OK, whenever they say they are men.

But today, for Sweary G, Amy and I think another, even though they're self-Iding as males, the sex-based laws were invoked?

It's almost as if males are more vocal, and get heard when they complain about manginas in their pool?.

PS: if you['re new to this debate and happened to click on this thread wondering what the fuss is all about: -- be it pools, toilets, schmesh, mesh, many of us here on this board are just simply saying 'female' needs to be defined - whatever your space that's important to you to be penis-free,, be it toilets, smear tests, sex-based data re. discrimination practices, your child breaking stereotypical boundaries, lesbians being told they're transphobic for not acceptng 'lady dicks, ie penises' We need more of you to see what's going on right now.

You're probably like I was - 'live and let live'. Many of these trans activists don't want 'live and let live'. They want 'in' to your spaces.

Not because they are like you.

Because they want to be validated by you. To get off on being you.

Loopytiles · 28/05/2018 19:23

Did the police actually make the self ID- ing men leave?!

If so, they shouldn’t have.

Floisme · 28/05/2018 19:22

Who is that transphobe who says self ID can be abused? Shock

Nicholas7900 · 28/05/2018 19:21

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ToeToToe · 28/05/2018 19:15

Pencils - Fuck that.

Why are men taken so much more seriously than women?

(The answer to that would be "why we need feminism" in a paragraph, I guess.)

PencilsInSpace · 28/05/2018 19:13

Women who use the ladies' pond did complain back in January. Of course the police weren't called! The women were just told the transladies were allowed to be there.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/transgender-women-hampstead-heath-ladies-pond-kenwood-kate-moss-a8136581.html

Shit stinks.

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ToeToToe · 28/05/2018 18:58

ooh, xposted with ou, justwannadance - your post wasn't showing when I posted Confused

ToeToToe · 28/05/2018 18:57

Thank you to our brave ManFriday protesters. I take my hat off to you, I really do. Star

It'll be very interesting to see what attention this gets. Fully expecting to see mimmymum & friends frothing around the place very soon...

But it is so, so telling that the men in the pond are taken seriously (police called) - what if the women in the women's only pool complain? Would the police be called for them - or would they be "re-educated" ??

ijustwannadance · 28/05/2018 18:39

To make this fair then they'd need a few men to self id and go in the women's pond to see if they get kicked out.

Although if that happened those policemen would probably be sent on a course to be 'educated' and made to make a grovelling apology to those poor, fragile trans women.

BiologyMatters · 28/05/2018 18:35

Tomorrow a few self id women should go down to swim in the ladies pond. See if they get escorted off by police.

AssassinatedBeauty · 28/05/2018 18:35

Well, quite! But as long as you change beforehand and don't use the changing rooms of the opposite sex then there's no problem.

PencilsInSpace · 28/05/2018 18:32

Number 10 is about toilets, not the swimming areas, surely?

TBF this is what would most put me off swimming in the men's pond Grin

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Invalid · 28/05/2018 18:31

10 is about changing rooms too.
Anyway, this is what the police said 🤷‍♀️

Bowlofbabelfish · 28/05/2018 18:31

Brava! Or bravo! Whatever really, just well done!

The police look relaxed - does anyone know how they reacted? Were they supportive?

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 28/05/2018 18:31

Well done fellow chaps (said in a gruff voice while grabbing crotch)

UpstartCrow · 28/05/2018 18:30

Champion menning chaps Football

Women are at a disadvantage unless the women's pool is also now single sex.

HermioneWeasley · 28/05/2018 18:28

💐

AssassinatedBeauty · 28/05/2018 18:27

Number 10 is about toilets, not the swimming areas, surely? And 44 and 45 are about other aspects of what they may have been doing, not about using the ponds themselves.

spontaneousgiventime · 28/05/2018 18:25

It's at times like this I am so proud of @MNHQ without MN #ManFriday may not have been born. Wine for everyone.

Gileswithachainsaw · 28/05/2018 18:25

You guys are amazing Smile