Fair Cop Harry: ' police are making threats against Mumsnet. We are on the case.'

Big twist - "they had an edit button all along, Sarge!"

If only….

Can't wait for the next season of The Line Of Duty...

Fewer car chases and tension built with tales of dodgy wifi?

Big twist - "they had an edit button all along, Sarge!"

As PPs have said, for all “holding the Office of Constable means a police officer executes their duty independently, without fear or favour” the police do look a wee bit silly actively & aggressively pursuing women for, um, scary ribbons/their noisy insistence women have rights/children need safeguarding/Not Being Kind when those on whose behalf they’re acting are, in many cases, demanding they be abolished & publicly abusing them. How does that work, anyway? “Abolish these terrible people I totally hate - but until that happens, I will demand they do my bidding”. Even though I claim they can’t be trusted & - again, in some cases - are an active risk to my community.

@JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon
To be fair, doesn’t getting paid to MumsNet sound much MUCH nicer than having to try to solve actual crimes? Or indeed plenty of other jobs, really… bet they get an endless supply of Good Biscuits (paid for by the taxpayer) too.

I don't trust the police.

They have infiltrated every left-wing civil rights movement I have been involved with for decades, trying to bring us down.

The fact that they've embraced the Pride movement so openly made me immediately suspicious of it. If it were really a radical movement with an intention to challenge the ruling structures, there's no way the police would have embraced it so publicly.

I actually think it’s marvellous that a police force will be reading our arguments. How else could we get the attention of the police?

I don’t exactly see the combined police forces of England and Wales consulting with women’s groups on how to improve policing for women, and even if they did, which official women’s group is as intelligent, educated, thoughtful, and aware of a huge array of issues for women from all walks of life, as FWR?

I sometimes suspect mimmybirthingparent is an undercover radical feminists.

Just popping in to wait for @BlueberryCheezecake to give examples of the rampant transphobia that they assure everyone is all over MN. Curious as to why it is taking soooooo long, considering we have been assured it is everywhere here?

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If by transphobic @BlueberryCheezecake, you actually mean factual, we'll await the summons in the post.

For someone who hates women speaking the truth, you certainly seem to spend a lot of time stinking up a site populated by us.

Nope as in not on relationships board.

Yes you are mistaken

Errrrrm nope. It is this one...

go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/LGBTPoliceNetwork/?fbclid=IwAR0e8xWWsTYyNFTo-Llzo9_ppOXfFQNstTYPBHc4NduDpdoBo3LWaxr5YCY

At school in Wales, friends and I reported a man watching us through binoculars and wanking. It was brushed under the carpet on account of him being a 'family man'. I don't trust the Welsh police as far as I could throw them. Mysogynistic fuckers. Ffyc i Ffwrdd indeed.

Oh my God have the police got nothing better to do and do they realise that Mumsnet is an international forum? Are they going to come and extradite me if I post something they don't agree with? I can't believe this bullshit.

I suspect that the Police target women peacefully discussing their views because we're an easy target. It's a wee bit too scary and inconvenient to monitor and investigate those who are threatening pipe bombs, screaming into people's faces at peaceful protests and setting off smokebombs to intimidate academics.

Far easier to harass women than to actually address institutional misogyny and sexism and robustly challenge violence against women. As a pp said, why bother to do that when you can stick a rainbow on everything and pat yourself on the back for protecting the 'most vulnerable group in society'. Just a quick reminder that 3 women a week are killed in the UK.

I suggest that those on Twitter report MimmyBirthingParent for targetted harrassment of Mumsnet. Even if you're blocked, you can report the account.

Sex is binary, immutable and real
Gender is a social construct
Transwomen are transwomen
Single sex spaces are lawful and needed
Womanhood cannot be identified into, it is the product of biology and lived experience that males can never authentically access.
Trans people have the right to live life free of harassment and prejudice.
Advancing trans rights cannot come at the expense of womens rights

JustcameoutGC and LilithofEden have nailed this.

I think we ought to have a day of action and ALL hand ourselves in to our local police stations up and down the country, saying that men are not women.

And MN. Honorable mention

One thing about this whole identity politics palaver is that it's greatly increasing my enjoyment of early 20th century political dystopian fiction.

Thanks TAs!

It out-Kafkas Kafka doesn't it RepentMotherfucker

Gosh. It's almost as though you're not allowed to say stuff that's true. But you are allowed to say stuff that's not true.

It's like The Trial. But without the trial.

Interesting this is South Wales police. I've lived there. As well as being relentlessly groped on nights out and assaulted whilst jogging twice, it's the only place where I, as a straight woman, have ever received homophobic abuse (due to the way I dressed apparently).

I suppose the fact they feel they've got the resources to monitor MN means that South Wales no longer has any issues with misogyny and homophobia. They surely deserve an award?

If transphobia means 'I don't believe male people can change sex, and I do believe that it is possible to respect a male person's chosen identity as a TW and indeed must happen without removing sex based rights and inclusion/access from the entire female half of the human race, and including males at the expense of excluding females from women's facilities and spaces is not ok' ?

Then you call me whatever names you feel you have to. I could call you some too. I won't however, not being a child any more.

I take a different perspective, this is amazing advertising for MN as a space to be honest. It encourages more of the general public to pop in to see what's being said and when they see it matches their concerns, to join in.

I hope the police are not only watching and Mermaids, that they keep this live and loud on Twitter etc. so the public know. The more people who can see the trans movement for what it is - controlling, the better!