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Women win guarantee over female only public lavatories - the Times

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chilling19 · 31/10/2020 07:01

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Escapeplanning · 03/11/2020 20:11

Don't bother Datun.

jj1968 · 03/11/2020 20:08

@Datun

Do you really think that homophobia and women being harassed for being gender nonconforming has only happened in the last five minutes?

Men insisting on using women's spaces has happened in the last five minutes. Of course it has. Some of us are older than five minutes, you know.

Stop using women to justify men in women's spaces. It's absurd.

So where do you think all the trans women in their 50s and 60s have been going all these years. More ahistorical nonsense.
Datun · 03/11/2020 20:05

Do you really think that homophobia and women being harassed for being gender nonconforming has only happened in the last five minutes?

Men insisting on using women's spaces has happened in the last five minutes. Of course it has. Some of us are older than five minutes, you know.

Stop using women to justify men in women's spaces. It's absurd.

jj1968 · 03/11/2020 20:02

You say lots of women don't want single sex spaces, but you don't seem to be able to quote a single example of one of them saying this.

Here's one: digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1382&context=yjlf

Here's another: www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/whos-afraid-of-same-sex-bathrooms

And another: www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/why-the-uk-should-ditch-male-and-female-toilets-for-gender-neutr/

And more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026120934697

Sexnotgender · 03/11/2020 19:52

@334bu

I've known many a butch woman and I've yet to meet one who is still not obviously female unlike most males who identify as women who inevitably just look like a male in a dress.
Yup. Even most transmen are still obviously female.
334bu · 03/11/2020 19:45

I've known many a butch woman and I've yet to meet one who is still not obviously female unlike most males who identify as women who inevitably just look like a male in a dress.

HecatesCats · 03/11/2020 19:44

US articles from several years ago about culture wars in the states do not make your case jj.

Floisme · 03/11/2020 19:43

Oh dear jj you do seem to have trouble processing the word 'no'.

The thing is though that, being women, we've had a lifetime dealing with this. So you posture and cajole and scold as much as you like. Crack on - fill up the thread. There won't be a single thing we haven't had thrown at us before and it will not make a scrap of difference.

OldCrone · 03/11/2020 19:41

@Facefullofcake

I am a woman who has had shit because my gender presentation was not sufficiently feminine. I still absolutely want single sex spaces, due to a history of physical and sexual abuse by males and the resulting CPTSD , caused and still triggered by males.
I'm quoting this post for you jj, because you seem to have missed it. Why are you ignoring women who say this?

And you still haven't quoted or linked to posts on here where women have said this sort of harassment means they want everything to be mixed sex.

You say lots of women don't want single sex spaces, but you don't seem to be able to quote a single example of one of them saying this.

jj1968 · 03/11/2020 19:39

Or do you seriously think that gender nonconforming women is only something that has happened in the last five minutes?

Do you really think that homophobia and women being harassed for being gender nonconforming has only happened in the last five minutes? You think butch lesbians were just treated great in womens toilets in the 60s/70s/80s? And then trans people came along and spoiled it. Dear me, ahistorical nonsense, completely blind to the struggles of LGB people.

jj1968 · 03/11/2020 19:36

@HecatesCats

Divide and conquer is a cynical tactic jj. Where is the evidence of a movement of Butch Lesbians against single sex spaces?
It's not a cynical tactic it's a fact. And gender non-conforming lesbians were a part of the hugely successful movement against bathroom bills in the US. Here's one: www.takepart.com/article/2016/05/02/woman-shows-bathroom-safety-isnt-only-trans-concern

Here's another: time.com/4322953/north-carolina-mississippi-bathroom-bills/

Anyone got anything to say to these women? Legitimate collateral damage? Liars? Anything?

Escapeplanning · 03/11/2020 19:29

Where can I find the list of court cases? I reckon I'm going to need it 😃

HecatesCats · 03/11/2020 19:25

I've always been in favour of both of those - along with many of us, I'd guess

Absolutely

ErrolTheDragon · 03/11/2020 19:22

@HecatesCats

Divide and conquer is a cynical tactic jj. Where is the evidence of a movement of Butch Lesbians against single sex spaces?
If there is one, the solutions are probably: 1) more focus on combatting lesbophobia in all its forms, which is probably what's behind problems they might encounter 2) support adding some mixed sex facilities for those that need or want them.

I've always been in favour of both of those - along with many of us, I'd guess.

Datun · 03/11/2020 19:20

Why aren't you listenng to the gender nonconforming women who have told you they have been harassed in women's spaces because people think they are men?

This has to be deliberate, no-one this hard of thinking.

This would never be a possibility if the transgender ideology didn't insist on allowing men into female spaces.

Women's places for women. Men's spaces for men.

It's really very simple. Stop creating problems for women.

Or do you seriously think that gender nonconforming women is only something that has happened in the last five minutes? 🤣

MaudTheInvincible · 03/11/2020 19:11

@Escapeplanning

Has the dilemma of women in women's toilets now grown? Not just tourism, tech and fashion? Is it really now ( drum roll) everything under the sun?

Yep. It's all our fault. All of it. All the time. Always.

HecatesCats · 03/11/2020 19:09

Divide and conquer is a cynical tactic jj. Where is the evidence of a movement of Butch Lesbians against single sex spaces?

Escapeplanning · 03/11/2020 19:01

Butch looking women do not get harassed in women's spaces because people think they are trans women but because people think they are men.

Have an award for stating the bleeding obvious.

Escapeplanning · 03/11/2020 18:59

Has the dilemma of women in women's toilets now grown? Not just tourism, tech and fashion? Is it really now ( drum roll) everything under the sun?

Escapeplanning · 03/11/2020 18:57

Omg I'm going to make another donation on jjs behalf.

jj1968 · 03/11/2020 18:50

@Datun

There are six and a half thousand genetic differences between men and women.

Gender non-conforming women do not look like men.

And yes, if men weren't insisting on accessing women's spaces, everyone can be assured that the people in them were female.

It's the height of enough to hold women up to support an argument that they are fundamentally opposed in the first place.

Although, tediously predictable, it has to be said.

Why aren't you listenng to the gender nonconforming women who have told you they have been harassed in women's spaces because people think they are men? Are you claiming they are all liars. Was the woman who wrote that autostraddle piece a liar? The lesbian who posted about it on here the other day? The two women kicked out of cineworld toilets?

And yes, if men weren't insisting on accessing women's spaces, everyone can be assured that the people in them were female.

Butch looking women do not get harassed in women's spaces because people think they are trans women but because people think they are men. Why on earth must you blame everything under the sun on trans women?

Datun · 03/11/2020 18:30

There are six and a half thousand genetic differences between men and women.

Gender non-conforming women do not look like men.

And yes, if men weren't insisting on accessing women's spaces, everyone can be assured that the people in them were female.

It's the height of enough to hold women up to support an argument that they are fundamentally opposed in the first place.

Although, tediously predictable, it has to be said.

Sexnotgender · 03/11/2020 18:10

Perhaps if we had very strictly female only spaces and males didn’t insist on barging into spaces that, frankly, they’ve got no fucking business being in then GNC women wouldn’t be an issue as we’d simply know they were women (FYI we know anyway).
Women as a class are generally non violent, looking at the crime stats it sure as hell isn’t us causing an issue.

OldCrone · 03/11/2020 18:06

@HecatesCats

So do you have anything to say to the gender nonconforming women who don't want this and believe it will put them at risk of harassment? Are they acceptable collateral damage?

jj where are all these gender non conforming women who, as you say, argue against toilets based on birth sex because they are 'bad for women'? You still haven't provided any evidence that there are 'plenty' of these women.

And the woman on this thread who said she had been harassed for being gender nonconforming said that she is in favour of female only spaces.

I suspect that the ' gender nonconforming women' jj is referring to are male 'women'.

OldCrone · 03/11/2020 18:02

Because of how they would have to be policed.

This is where you seem to be missing the point jj. What you're doing when you say stuff about toilets having to be 'policed' is assuming that when there is a rule about males not being allowed to use women's toilets, some males will try to use them anyway. Probably some would, but what sort of person would do that?

You're making the assumption that 'transwomen' will try to use women's toilets even though they know that they shouldn't, so you're showing that you don't believe 'transwomen' are decent people who will abide by the normal rules of society, but that they are unpleasant people who will try to force themselves into places where they know they shouldn't be and where they are not welcome.

I'd say that's somewhat transphobic of you jj.

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